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Gilje watchmen at an Esrian market.
While their service is compulsory, the foreign-born gilje don't make a big fuss about petty shoplifting. The hungry gotta eat, right?
Fun illustration I did while world building my ill-fated Gilje/Esrian setting. Hoping to revisit it in the future though!
While their service is compulsory, the foreign-born gilje don't make a big fuss about petty shoplifting. The hungry gotta eat, right?
Fun illustration I did while world building my ill-fated Gilje/Esrian setting. Hoping to revisit it in the future though!
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What a richly detailed scene! [which can be said about basically everything you make, if it's a whole scene, haha!]
But this is a cool change of pace, suddenly a medieval/fantasy sort of thing, instead of the sci-fi settings. Even if I love sci-fi moreso, it's a pleasant contrast. :>
Initially, I thought the two reptilian guards were perhaps just dopey and inobservant, and that was why the merchant was so cross with them - but it's even cooler to know they're just a chill and permissive pair who aren't tyrannical about such a small crime. <3
But this is a cool change of pace, suddenly a medieval/fantasy sort of thing, instead of the sci-fi settings. Even if I love sci-fi moreso, it's a pleasant contrast. :>
Initially, I thought the two reptilian guards were perhaps just dopey and inobservant, and that was why the merchant was so cross with them - but it's even cooler to know they're just a chill and permissive pair who aren't tyrannical about such a small crime. <3
This is excellent artwork and there is a story to be told with every character in the scene. However, If the description is true for the world then there are grievous societal issues that, if not addressed, will contribute to its downfall.
People are probably thinking the big, bad business owner is greedy and can afford to lost a piece of fruit. Well, read on.
Stealing fruits and vegetables doesn't sound like much but if there aren't consequence or correction for stealing then it will continue and result in greater societal problems. Parents will send their kids out into the market to steal food rather than provide for them because poor, hungry, children won't be punished. Kids are quick learners and will figure out which shops have owners that are either too old and slow, inattentive, or won't resist the use of force; those shops will become routinely targeted and have something pilfered from them several times a day. It's only one fruit or vegetable, up until it's dozens of people taking only one throughout the day to the point where there is no point to have a market stand anymore.
Tolerate bad behavior and you get more bad behavior; crime degrades social trust which is the glue that holds a society together. It is difficult to have a functioning society under such conditions, much less an economy. I doubt it will take long for the community to either take enforcement into their own hands, up to and including making thieves disappear; and in turn, retribution. Riots and rebellion aren't out of the question.
Be it a cultural incompatibility or simply indifference to theft outside of their own people; that the Gilje aren't concerned with petty theft against the host population is a good example of why foreigners are a bad choice for guards and military. Both the lack of enforcement of law and using foreigners for military are often seen near the end of an empire.
I'm not taking into account the realistic nature of a medieval / Tudor time period, like food scarcity to the point of theft being life or death in a bad harvest year, the disruption of taxation causing unhappy government, and that both kids and adults were routinely put to the sword. There is simply too many inter-connected topics to cover in a comment and would better be covered by several books. Simply put, if you allow theft and disregard the rule of law, your society collapses.
People are probably thinking the big, bad business owner is greedy and can afford to lost a piece of fruit. Well, read on.
Stealing fruits and vegetables doesn't sound like much but if there aren't consequence or correction for stealing then it will continue and result in greater societal problems. Parents will send their kids out into the market to steal food rather than provide for them because poor, hungry, children won't be punished. Kids are quick learners and will figure out which shops have owners that are either too old and slow, inattentive, or won't resist the use of force; those shops will become routinely targeted and have something pilfered from them several times a day. It's only one fruit or vegetable, up until it's dozens of people taking only one throughout the day to the point where there is no point to have a market stand anymore.
Tolerate bad behavior and you get more bad behavior; crime degrades social trust which is the glue that holds a society together. It is difficult to have a functioning society under such conditions, much less an economy. I doubt it will take long for the community to either take enforcement into their own hands, up to and including making thieves disappear; and in turn, retribution. Riots and rebellion aren't out of the question.
Be it a cultural incompatibility or simply indifference to theft outside of their own people; that the Gilje aren't concerned with petty theft against the host population is a good example of why foreigners are a bad choice for guards and military. Both the lack of enforcement of law and using foreigners for military are often seen near the end of an empire.
I'm not taking into account the realistic nature of a medieval / Tudor time period, like food scarcity to the point of theft being life or death in a bad harvest year, the disruption of taxation causing unhappy government, and that both kids and adults were routinely put to the sword. There is simply too many inter-connected topics to cover in a comment and would better be covered by several books. Simply put, if you allow theft and disregard the rule of law, your society collapses.
Nice to see the cultural differences between the groups here :)
I just home the shop keeper doesnt shout at the Gilje too much. They dont deserve that they are good lads. Especially the right one who looks to be missing some of their tail D:
And the outfits all around this scene are great.
I just home the shop keeper doesnt shout at the Gilje too much. They dont deserve that they are good lads. Especially the right one who looks to be missing some of their tail D:
And the outfits all around this scene are great.
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