Rulers of the
Land
Kings, Queens, Princes
and Princesses. The Royalty of the Lands from long
ago. Of questionable virtue in your history books,
Fairy Tale Royalty is either completely pure, or
totally evil.
There is no compromise, there are only absolutes.
While the common man occupied themselves with their
repective trades, the Lords and Ladies of the land
occupied themselves with duels and gossip. Some few
saw to the running of the country, making sure those
common men were fed and housed, while most were
concerned with their own amusements.
The stories i've read about Royalty, Princes and Princesses, Kings and Queens, draging an ailing land or people out of the mud and forging them into something truly magnificant, those are among my favorite. These are the ones i read and re-read and never tire of.
The Men and Women of the country made their homes in small, snug cabins or huts with thatched roofs, content, for the most part, to work and raise children, living their lives to the fullest and taking happiness wherever they could find it. The royalty lived in great stone castles; draughty and cold, with huge rooms and larger furniture.
Princesses are divided between the vain, self centered egotistical sort, and those beautiful, selfless wonders that Princes fall all over themselves to marry.
My personal favorites are those self confident, capable Princesses that can run the country or travel in search of heros if need be.
Queens are the caretakers of the royal family. Or, at least, the ones who make sure the servants do what they are supposed to be doing. Most have little to do with the actual running of the country, except to give their kings advice in whatever matters they happened to be deliberating upon.
Lords, Kings, and Princes
The men of the land. Rulers, if you were lucky enough to be the first son, land owners if you were the second. THird sons were lucky to get a title with no money or land attached. Royal families with more than three sons generally eliminated the problems by sending them off to join the Kings Army. Oftentimes bored Lords and ladies amused themselves fighting duels over trifling offenses that lesser men would overlook as an idiotic thing to kill someone over. Or to be killed over.
