Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20170717113624/@comment-31763506-20170722043450

I'll take a look at the external link format so that I hopefully don't make the same mistake again. (If it isn't clear I have a pretty high degree of technical knowledge on HTML and CSS, but have virtually none whatsoever wiki markups.)

I have no problem correctining all reference to the Arsehole into "the Incubus King", but that creates a problem with reference to "Incubus Kings" prior to the Arsehole, which are mentioned in the entries on pre-historic Zirantia and the definition of AE. We can try decapitalizing the term in those case or just calling them Incubi, but that makes an inconsistency with the ingame text.

I'm sorry if I used the word "certainly" for Hilstara's minimum age, but I think the possibility of her having been less than 16 is much more remote than I think you're arguing for here. Child soldiers were very rare in armies that utilized melee weapons and armor, because physical strength was at an absolute premium. A child would be basically useless in a shield wall or phalanx type formation, or in any specialty type of role such as archer (requires very high upper body strength) or a mounted knight (requires a lot of all body strength to stay on the horse). On a practical level, it doesn't make economic sense because you'd have to make non-standard armor to fit a smaller body, which would need fairly regular replacement as the child underwent fairly rapid growth to maturity. Children and early teenagerrs accompanied such armies as personal servants or squires, but never as combatants unless the situation was absolutely desperate. The exceptions to this were cases where high nobility who were legally in positions of political authority needed to be present on the battlefield, but they did not usually take part in actual combat. (Of course, women in combat roles were also unbelievably rare in these societies, but we ignore that for the sake of the standards of the JRPG fantasy genre.)

The two cases of boys under 18 dying in combat as knights in English history that I can think of off the top of my head were both from the Wars of the Roses,  First was the 17 year old Edmund, Earl of Rutland, who was personally executed by the Lord Clifford after being captured at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and the other was the 17 year old Lancastrian Edward Prince of Wales who was killed during the aftermath of the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. Both were in the immediate line of succession to the throne to their partisans. Both killings were considered sufficiently heinous that they were made plot points of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part 3, although the Bard reduced their ages rather a lot. (it should be noted that if Rutland was like his brother Edward IV, he'd have been a very big 17 year old.  Edward IV was tall (6'4") and very strongly built, traits that his better known grandson Henry VIII inherited.)

But less theoretically, in their drinking session, Hilstara talks about how she had had a crush on Simon but not pursued it because their other comrades had all known he and Wendis would end up together. That indicates that she was sufficiently physically mature to see herself as a potential choice of permanant partner for a man 14 years older than she was.