Well, good news for the kids is the Emperor isn't too cruel. He figures by the time they've helped rebuild the cities and towns their parents razed the crown can show it's mercy by declaring their debt paid and the people will by then agree.
Too bad the writer is not so kind. As mentioned at the top this was describing some back-history for a character I'd come up with for the MZDM forums when they were still going. The Emperor may have started to feel merciful, but sadly he doesn't last much longer. His son blames the traitors for not just the death of his father but of a good number of his relatives and a significant percentage of the population. So he puts more weight on the, "They'll be the lowest of slaves," part of what his father said. Cementing that with a ruling that none of them shall be freed with anything short of Imperial approval, stripping them of even the few protections that were extended to slaves in the empire, and declaring it treason to try and free one since it was on direct orders of the Emperor that they were slaves in the first place. So two hundred-ish years later by Tomas's time not one of them has ever been freed.
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Date: 2011-08-07 04:23 pm (UTC)Too bad the writer is not so kind. As mentioned at the top this was describing some back-history for a character I'd come up with for the MZDM forums when they were still going. The Emperor may have started to feel merciful, but sadly he doesn't last much longer. His son blames the traitors for not just the death of his father but of a good number of his relatives and a significant percentage of the population. So he puts more weight on the, "They'll be the lowest of slaves," part of what his father said. Cementing that with a ruling that none of them shall be freed with anything short of Imperial approval, stripping them of even the few protections that were extended to slaves in the empire, and declaring it treason to try and free one since it was on direct orders of the Emperor that they were slaves in the first place. So two hundred-ish years later by Tomas's time not one of them has ever been freed.