As an avid Role player the question of what laws are what often comes into play. So I was curious. What culture/time period is Krytan law based upon. It would really clear up a lot of confusion and back and forth with speculation. Further to that, is it an environment, where any person, military/citizen/or visitor would be able to be charged for a crime without a hearing? Any answers to such questions would be phenomenal as it would be great to get the community on the same page.
We don’t know any specific laws, to my knowledge, just that the Ministry usually writes them and the Queen signs them into law. Everyone gets at least a hearing- foreigners get a hearing before the local Seraph, most citizens get an audience with a magistrate at the Ministry, and the nobility receives a full trial. Nobles also have the right to invoke trial by combat, although in modern Kryta it is an obscure right that is hardly ever invoked.
EDIT: Here’s the link . I don’t have time to listen through the whole thing, but they talk about the nature of the nobility towards the end. Not sure if laws or legal issues are mentioned specifically.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
Well we do know the general theme of the laws. Ministry is trying to ensure the nobility stays in lofty positions of power and privilege while Queen Jennah is attempting to remove the class-ism. The only law I know for certain is the trial by combat law that comes up in the personal story, however it;s made fairly clear that it’s more of a anachronism.
We can guess at the theme of the current laws getting considered, but that only goes back as far as however long the Ministry’s been corrupt. It probably didn’t start that way, and in any case it’s implied to be younger than Divinity’s Reach, so any law going back more than a hundred years would come from an age where the monarch had seemingly absolute power- and we know monarchs ran the gamut from truly caring about the common folk (Salma) to killing them for fun (Thorn).
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
We can guess at the theme of the current laws getting considered, but that only goes back as far as however long the Ministry’s been corrupt. It probably didn’t start that way, and in any case it’s implied to be younger than Divinity’s Reach, so any law going back more than a hundred years would come from an age where the monarch had seemingly absolute power- and we know monarchs ran the gamut from truly caring about the common folk (Salma) to killing them for fun (Thorn).
~0 to ~1220 AE: Monarch with absolute power (“Absolute monarchy”)
From ~1220 AE: King Baede establishes The Ministry (“Constitutional monarchy”, like today’s monarchies in western Europe = monarchs + democratic elected governments)
From ~1310 AE: After the death of Jennah’s father’s; Kryta is ruled only by The Ministry, while Jennah gets old enough to take the crown. It is during this phase the Ministry starts to grow corrupt.
Let the Kings and Queens of other lands and lesser creatures
witness our wonders and cry out in astonishment and humble themselves.
Beware our mighty works.
From ~1310 AE: It is during this phase the Ministry starts to grow corrupt.
We don’t know that for sure, and in fact I rather doubt it. If I remember the relevant dialogue correctly (why they buried something so important in a single personal story branch, I couldn’t begin to say) the centaur were becoming a progressively worse problem and the Ministry was working to replace the Seraph within the city during the reign of Jennah’s father, which suggests that the corruption had already taken root at that early date, and was entrenched enough to start actively working to usurp control.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
From ~1310 AE: It is during this phase the Ministry starts to grow corrupt.
We don’t know that for sure.
Valid point. I guess it might have started to take root already during Jennah’s father’s reign. I think it is Sea of Sorrows (confirmation needed) which mentiones the friction created during the gap between Jennah’s father’s death and her taking the crown.
I guess it would be hard to define exactly when it started, but “sometime towards the end of Jennah’s father’s reign” would be as good an estimate as anyone can give (?).
Let the Kings and Queens of other lands and lesser creatures
witness our wonders and cry out in astonishment and humble themselves.
Beware our mighty works.
