For minor things you get assigned the less pleasant tasks that still need to be done. For more serious offences there is a sliding scale from half-exile, full exile, and execution. The People don't really go for things like cutting off a hand for stealing, but they do do things like physically marking perennial troublemakers who aren't quite bad enough to kick out or kill entirely, so that people can tell at a glance to not trust them.
Ah, makes sense given our ethos.
Maiming criminals would seem to defeat the purpose, how would they make up the harm they have caused if they are now less able to work?
Imprisonment likewise, though imprisonment never really kicked off except for political prisoners who cannot be killed due to social status.
So put them to shitty work for more time and on shittier things. Some branding involved for repeat offenders(I'd suspect migrants are often marked for offenses due to culture clash), unless we have tattooing already
Until they cross the line and we just put them on permanent shit duty I guess.
Looks good to me. So long as BB's roll out first on the admin rolls, they can be added to Restore Order. And, since BB's are generally drawn from individuals who can't or don't have children, and who generally only enter into romantic relationships with other shamans, they're actually near-ideal in the era to deal with familial corruption.
That's a fair point that I don't think had been mentioned previously, though you got it slightly mixed up, Blackbirds are drawn from warriors and given shaman training(one of the Blackbirds on the Metal Worker mission mentions his wife being envious of the King's tongue skills). Carrion Eaters are drawn from shamans and given warrior training.
Still, Blackbirds are spooky enough that they're slightly distanced from the usual social circles, and certainly further from the usual noble families for now.
...though I suppose give it a few generations and they'd start figuring out a solution.
What do you guys think of getting cremation for dealing with our dead? It is the best way to do things after all. The ash can be spread to the land and help crops grow, no space wasted on graveyards, and is overall more hygienic.
Also no bodies to be animated into zombies.
We have a taboo against interfering with the dead. Cremation is religiously uncomfortable.
We do incinerate all our other waste though
Do any other factions know about our Sacred Forest? Because it just seems really badass how our people do this day in and day out without stopping.
Why is it happening in the first place?
Other factions apparently don't know much about our lands, the last time we recieved a trade mission was more than 10 turns ago.
