I feel like we often see harem intrigue plots end up with women in camps; not only are they competing for the emperor's favor but the empress, and the empress dowager, and whoever has any power at all.
Yeah, like there's some things that female monasteries simply cannot do (women can't take confession, at least in the middle ages), and of course there's the structure of the abbess and the prioress and the layers of general sisters out there, and some are full-fledged and some are still in training. It's people with power over each other, in a time where corporeal punishment hasn't been questioned (and pain for the divine is often seen as a good thing). I could see this going in a lot of interesting directions.
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Date: 2023-10-12 04:47 pm (UTC)I feel like we often see harem intrigue plots end up with women in camps; not only are they competing for the emperor's favor but the empress, and the empress dowager, and whoever has any power at all.
Yeah, like there's some things that female monasteries simply cannot do (women can't take confession, at least in the middle ages), and of course there's the structure of the abbess and the prioress and the layers of general sisters out there, and some are full-fledged and some are still in training. It's people with power over each other, in a time where corporeal punishment hasn't been questioned (and pain for the divine is often seen as a good thing). I could see this going in a lot of interesting directions.