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And as for male superiority, this depends more on the culture I'd say.

Agreed. And I don't think it's fair to go to Mesalia and slap a "Medieval RP" sticker on it. I would say it's more close to fantasy, except without the typical fantasy tropes like elves and all that other unneeded crap.

So far the players have come up with many cultures, not just Medieval Aged European nonsense, so we should really just take a step back from it. We've got Northern Scandinavian like cultures, Japanese type cultures, Chinese, hell, even a city based off of prohibition era Chicago.

Mesalia as I see it, is whatever the players want it to be. If the majority of the server wants to include homophobic tendencies into some of the lore, that'll probably happen. If the opposite is true, then the opposite will be true. We don't just say "Well, that wouldn't happen in Medieval times", now do we? Sure, that argument is occasionally brought up but more often than not it's a moot point. Using an example: After being enslaved for 30 years by a master race of men with supernatural powers, from a medieval stand point 90% of the server would see Xitians as scum. That's not an exaggeration. Ireland has a rich history of hating the "Black and Tan" British soldiers that exerted control over them. To present day in fact.

But, the populace would prefer not RPing things that way, and like their characters to be more open-minded - which isn't a bad or a good thing, really, it's just part of the characters we want to play, then they won't RP it that way.

Tl;dr - Mesalia is what we make it. Let's stop trying to genre-fy it and generalize it.


EDIT: Leave it to me to basically repeat the exact same point in the post above mine. D'oh.