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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8672648" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>You're largely right, yeah.</p><p></p><p>Though that's not to say Sword and Sorcery characters aren't, or can't, be motivated by moral means.</p><p></p><p>Conan, himself, wearing the Jeweled Crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow, becomes as good a king as he can be. He puts smart men who aren't corrupt into positions of authority, reduces taxes on his people because more than is needed is being taken to line the pockets of the greedy, and goes to war time and again in order to protect the Aquilonian people.</p><p></p><p>Kull, similarly, begins the extermination of the Serpent Men of Valusia after an assassination attempt is made on his life. Not out of vengeance for his own near-death, but to keep the Serpent Men from assassinating other rulers and usurping kingdoms to their own foul ends.</p><p></p><p>Sword and Sorcery characters can and do find themselves with moral codes... They just typically struggle to find their morality in the world before becoming better people than they started through existentialist threats and journeys that teach them different ways of being through their interactions with other people.</p><p></p><p>And then turn corrupt when they're in power long enough, if it's an REH story!</p><p></p><p>I think the most important takeaway from that isn't that Sword and Sorcery characters are moral or immoral or amoral. But that their morality shifts and changes until they find their way and establish their moral identity, their moral framework, which holds out as long as it can before other events cause it to be re-evaluated, or cause them to fail to uphold their moral identity.</p><p></p><p>... Thank you. You really made me consider something I hadn't, before, Blue Orange!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8672648, member: 6796468"] You're largely right, yeah. Though that's not to say Sword and Sorcery characters aren't, or can't, be motivated by moral means. Conan, himself, wearing the Jeweled Crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow, becomes as good a king as he can be. He puts smart men who aren't corrupt into positions of authority, reduces taxes on his people because more than is needed is being taken to line the pockets of the greedy, and goes to war time and again in order to protect the Aquilonian people. Kull, similarly, begins the extermination of the Serpent Men of Valusia after an assassination attempt is made on his life. Not out of vengeance for his own near-death, but to keep the Serpent Men from assassinating other rulers and usurping kingdoms to their own foul ends. Sword and Sorcery characters can and do find themselves with moral codes... They just typically struggle to find their morality in the world before becoming better people than they started through existentialist threats and journeys that teach them different ways of being through their interactions with other people. And then turn corrupt when they're in power long enough, if it's an REH story! I think the most important takeaway from that isn't that Sword and Sorcery characters are moral or immoral or amoral. But that their morality shifts and changes until they find their way and establish their moral identity, their moral framework, which holds out as long as it can before other events cause it to be re-evaluated, or cause them to fail to uphold their moral identity. ... Thank you. You really made me consider something I hadn't, before, Blue Orange! [/QUOTE]
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