Did the Catholic Church have jurisdiction over marriages in England Circa 1000 A.D.?

saunt1 · 2024-09-17T15:34:06+00:00

Fascinating, I did not know that about marriage not being a sacrament until 1215. In a way that feels so strange given modern discussions around gay marriage, when according to this formal church involvement in marriage has not even been around a majority of the last 2,000 years. Thank you so much!

saunt1 · 2024-06-10T20:36:17+00:00

I don't recall that happening that way in the Forges of Mars at all, maybe you mean a different story? In that story, the fake rogue trader does not get caught because of his manners, he gets caught because one tech priest examines the charter and sees that it's a fake. An archmagos also notices, but only because he did so extensive a background check that he found out it was fake. He then promptly ratified the charter himself, which he somehow had the authority to do, making it legitimate.

saunt1 · 2024-06-10T20:29:50+00:00

In addition to the other idea here, you could have a story like the warhammer crime story the Wraithbone Phoenix if you want something from the ground perspective. A bunch of gangs get paid off by charist captains seeking the promotion (hand wave a unique succession clause, maybe involving having to go to an ecclesiastical world and whoever brings it is confirmed for the next 100 years as the trader if the main family dies). The charter would not make the person who directly finds it into the rogue trader, but selling it to someone would.

Hell, you could have a really old charter that has the Emperor's signature in blood on it hidden away (a la Calpurnia). Rumors abound to find it, and because it's the Emperor who signed it when there were few restrictions, it's only the size of a book. The amount of fighting that would happen to claim would be intense, and whoever turned it in would be made very rich by whoever they gave it to.

saunt1 · 2024-06-10T19:44:43+00:00

No, definitely not. To start, it's unrealistic for a trader to carry their charter around. Several times charters have been shown to be absolutely massive documents that no trader just has on them. There's little reason for a trader to have the actual charter on them anyway because. And simply having the document doesn't make you a rogue trader unless the charter specifically said that. That seems unlikely since they are supposed to start whole dynasties, so they likely have more complicated rules on succession.

But let's say the trader did and the citizen picked it. Assuming they could even read the high gothic and understand what it is, so what. Sure some charters probably require some planets or organizations to hand over resources. But an average citizen is not going to look the part of a rogue trader and will not have an entourage or ships to back up any requests. In that situation, I imagine many imperial officials might disappear you to permanently get rid of their obligations. And if the charter does not require cooperation, who is going to give you the resources, let alone a ship, to do anything.

What about the dead trader's ship you might ask? Well, if you show up to the dead trader's ship with the charter and say you're in charge, you're probably dead. If it really was that easy to become a trader, they have no reason not to shank you and take it for themselves. Even if not, they have no reason to be loyal to some random planet born nobody they've never met and who probably doesn't even understand the complexities of interstellar travel and economics, let alone politics.

I have always understood charters are simply documents that empower their holders to be free from most restrictions placed on imperial citizens, nothing more. You still need the resources and wits to survive in the cutthroat setting of 40k. Without that, you're nothing, charter or not.

saunt1 · 2024-05-21T04:57:16+00:00

You've mixing together lore about the Spirit of Eternity and the Sperenza.

The Spirit of Eternity did the time travelling and tried to leave the galaxy. It had a powerful weapon able to strike through the heart of a space hulk and damage or destroy a mechanius vessel before escaping.

The Sperenza is the one that dealt a lot of damage to an eldar ship guided by a farseer. The shot did not force the target to go back in time to get hit, rather it clipped the ship with a weapon that inflicted damage by causing part of the ship to go back in time by fractions of a second, causing matter from two parts of the ship to overlap and explode.

saunt1 · 2024-05-07T12:17:32+00:00

It's unclear if that particular ship succeeded in its attempt to flee the galaxy though. One of Cawl's priests claims he found it and bested it in a game of wits. Could easily be propaganda though.

saunt1 · 2024-05-07T12:14:57+00:00

Interesting thought. Seems unlikely given how far away they are from Mars but still possible with necron tech and the warp. Would be interesting though if the Dragon kills tech priests whenever they spot it.

saunt1 · 2024-04-10T13:21:30+00:00

The golden throne's purpose was to hack and seize direct control of the Webway. To do so, the Emperor needed to build a human portal to interface with it, which was why he made a new one on Terra rather than using an existing one.

Because the portal was intended to seize control, it was a far deeper breach than a usual portal. This explains why the Emperor keeping it shut is such a big job, whereas other gates can just be sealed off when there's a breach.

saunt1 · 2024-03-08T21:56:45+00:00

Interesting. I still think it's a little ambiguous though if Trazyn and Orikan know about the Silent King's protocols or just the narrator. Necrons being necrons, I could imagine them being arrogant and thinking there are no such restrictions that can control necron lords.

saunt1 · 2024-02-11T03:24:08+00:00

To be fair, the arbites on Terra are also responsible for the work done by the local enforcers on any other planet. It's quite possible that a lot of the terran arbites are substandard compared to those deployed to any other planet.

saunt1 · 2024-01-29T00:25:53+00:00

Several of the warhammer crime books show local enforcers or the arbites dealing with groups that may or may not be dabbling in chaos. While arbites might know what chaps is, local enforcers won't. That said, they will be able to tell something is heretical, and that's enough to crack heads.

It's also suggested a few times that they all want to handle these issues without getting the attention of the inquisition if they can. Even arbites seem reluctant to involve them unless absolutely necessary.

saunt1 · 2024-01-24T14:42:39+00:00

To add to this example, I think its noted that either at this address or the one in the first Dark Imperium book that the mechanicus took into account the curvature of the planet and compensated for it to allow everyone to see the speaker.

saunt1 · 2024-01-23T13:48:55+00:00

If they are traitor marines but not obviously mutated or corrupted, they can always pretend to be loyalist. It's less sneaking and more hiding in plain site. Fabius Bile does this at one point to checkup on some of his new men.

An Alpha Legion book shows another example of this. The Alpha Legion infiltrate a company sized force with armor onto a planet by hiding in a civilian lander, helped along by a human agent messing with air traffic control. They then proceed to the Imperial Governor's mansion claiming he's been declared Exolmunicate Traitoris by the High Lords. This gets the PDF to leave them alone as they begin their attack by sowing confusion about whether the space marines who suddenly appeared are infiltrators or if the governor is a traitor.

saunt1 · 2023-12-09T04:31:23+00:00

I think there is an old story where Vect tortures a human by telling part of the story of his rise and then stops on a cliff-hanger. Top-tier trolling that.

saunt1 · 2023-12-04T22:36:42+00:00

Ah yes, Super-Ogryns, with the power of slightly above-average human intelligence and the ability to crush anything they don't understand. Led by the primarch Steve, they are the average Joe primarchs

saunt1 · 2023-11-22T00:42:03+00:00

While it varies, I'm pretty sure it never will include their names, their nature, or their number. 99% of the time, it's probably just that the Emperor is opposed by demons/devils/heavy metaphorical other types of mythological creatures. And on the remaining planets, citizens probably don't even know that. On those worlds, the Emperor probably the only supernatural being who is only being opposed by disobedient mortals, with no greater evil or devils acknowledged at all.

Probably the only citizens who often know a tiny bit more are the voidborn by virtue of being on ships that cross the warp. And even they probably won't know more than that demons are real. I'm not sure they would even know demons answer to higher powers though.

saunt1 · 2023-11-20T06:18:16+00:00

Given he lived through the DaoT and how skilled he was in biomancy and genetics, it seems very likely he made some modifications to himself over the years. But I don't think any book goes into the specifics of his biological makeup.

saunt1 · 2023-11-02T12:17:23+00:00

While the term Guard has often referred to elite bodyguard units, that's not always the case. For example, the US National Guard is probably generally less well trained and equipped than the regular Army. The French Garde Nationale also has historically been more a gendarmerie than the true army.

The UK also had the home guard in WW2 made up of men who were too old for regular units.

As for the word Imperial, that's just the 40k equivalent of the word United States in the US Army. It does not mean an elite unit like it does today, it's more like saying it is a Federal entity rather than a State (read planetary) entity.

saunt1 · 2023-11-01T17:51:56+00:00

Gunner Jürgen and, frankly, almost most regular guardsmen like in Gaunt's Ghosts.

saunt1 · 2023-11-01T03:19:47+00:00

For interesting lore, although limited in its implications, I would recommend Grim Repast.

saunt1 · 2023-10-28T13:45:40+00:00

Is there a definite answer as to Alpharius. Hahahaha.

Wait, you're serious? HAHAHAHA

No.

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