The biggest sticking point thus far was whether other sorts of deaths could also improve one's standing in the afterlife. Death in combat against evil was obviously a good death, and most agreed that a heroic death, something along the lines of being caught in a landslide while desperately attempting to shore up a retaining wall during a deluge was a good death, but beyond that there was more discussion. This did however mean that the warriors were receiving additional attention. More than ever, people wanted to be warriors if they could, and the best warriors were the cart riders. The Blackbirds were also seen as a good second, but they were more mysterious and their spiritual knowledge and powers took them a step outside normal society. A young man who was a cart rider could walk away from the bonfire at a feast with a young woman under each arm, and the other young men would look on and desperately wish they could be like that rather than feeling the flush of jealous anger. Adding in the idea that if they fell in battle that they would start off their next life better, and, well, suddenly the competition for getting into the warriors got fiercer, and given that being a rider or a driver on the carts often required you to start young, there was a definite stratification starting up.
There were voices calling that they should just accept it, that jobs had gone down through families for generations and that someone just picking up a skill as an adult could never compete with someone who had learned at their parents and grandparents knee. Others said that with general militia training, further efforts should be made to give the People opportunities for glory in combat and death. Still others contested that these ideas were foreign, conceived for foreign spirits who were distant to the primary concerns of the People and the spirits of field and forest, and that they should step away from such ideas, but those people were a distinct minority.
Choose an option to deal with the new chief and his ideas of succession...
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Choose an option to deal with the issues of social mobility
[] Do not give people false hope, codify the heredity of specialist work
[] Expand the use of the militia to give more people a chance to prove themselves in battle (Lose Econ, gain Martial)
[] The best people shall find their place (High chance of stability loss in the competition for limited warrior billets)
