slaves? [spoilers]

[Jax Bois]

Are the blue mask bards slaves? They do all the menial tasks in the bard society and in the translation part before they go to the abbey they say of themselves that they are not human. Which other societal issues have I missed?? Other than the warriors hating every other society because they think they dont like music?

[sono]

Originally posted by Jax Bois:

Are the blue mask bards slaves? They do all the menial tasks in the bard society and in the translation part before they go to the abbey they say of themselves that they are not human. Which other societal issues have I missed?? Other than the warriors hating every other society because they think they dont like music?

The bards are... wankers, really. They look down on everyone above and below them, and have a clear class divide. There's a reason the bard-priest (or whatever lvl 1 guys were called) conversations has them leave for the abbey.

That said, the warriors look down on the priests, and see it as their duty to keep them out, but they worship the bards and love music. When they learn the priests have music too, they learn to like them. They literally murder intruders.

The priests have their prophet and their god, and see the climb as a divine mission. Considering the prophet abandoned his people to solo-climb, they're hardly without fault.

The alchemists are clearly careless in their experimentation, and have caused damage in their search for knowledge.

The Exiled sealed themselves away out of fear of others.

All the societies and people have their flaws, it's your job to bring them together.

[myrontaslov]

The bards are definitely the worst of all the societies. I don't think we have enough information to definitively state they're slaves or not slaves, but they clearly have a subservient role and there's a room in the catacombs underneath bardland where the blue masks are making protest signs. Also, the bards feel like they're superior to everyone. They have little music boxes about how dumb the warriors are and there's the mural in the tunnels between them and the alchemists that says "You are seeking. We have found."

The acolytes all seem pretty chill, the warriors are kinda ♥♥♥♥♥, the bellman is an alcoholic and someone wrote graffiti on his house about it, and the people in the final chapter use technology so much they're alienated from everyone including themselves. Those are all the ones I picked up on

[Kain]

Most people just misunderstand each other, Warriors think everyone else other than bards are impure because they don't know they play music, Alchemists just want to help everyone but they are isolated by language and a monster, the Religious people at the bottom just want to meet God and see their plants thrive... but the Bards? they legitimaly think everyone else are idiots that cannot appreciate art, they found beauty and for them that's enough.

The serfs are just slaves, exploited and who yearn to be free.

[kamirose]

Originally posted by myrontaslov:

I don't think we have enough information to definitively state they're slaves or not slaves

No, we definitely can. They literally say during the conversation with the devotees "We are not human. We are not free."

[Kain]

Originally posted by kamirose:

Originally posted by myrontaslov:

I don't think we have enough information to definitively state they're slaves or not slaves

No, we definitely can. They literally say during the conversation with the devotees "We are not human. We are not free."

They even have posters claiming for freedom with a broken chain, can't get more clear than that