Is the evidence unambiguous, or do they want to interpret it that way?
There was an earlier draft where the Workers had to get Lennier's clan's permission to dig on their land, but the clan leaders didn't really care (and a very terrified Lennier got told to give permission on his clan's behalf) because Workers always got trusted to do that sort of thing well. Which does leave the history of a few thousand years ago nicely in the hands of whatever the Worker caste want it to be.
Now I'm craving fic about why Lennier left out the Workers from his first explanation of the castes.
I've been trying to think of an explanation for that one for ages - I refuse to believe there's any canon messup that fanfic can't fix. I don't think I've ever heard of any that sound reasonable, though.
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Date: 2005-03-29 08:14 pm (UTC)There was an earlier draft where the Workers had to get Lennier's clan's permission to dig on their land, but the clan leaders didn't really care (and a very terrified Lennier got told to give permission on his clan's behalf) because Workers always got trusted to do that sort of thing well. Which does leave the history of a few thousand years ago nicely in the hands of whatever the Worker caste want it to be.
Now I'm craving fic about why Lennier left out the Workers from his first explanation of the castes.
I've been trying to think of an explanation for that one for ages - I refuse to believe there's any canon messup that fanfic can't fix. I don't think I've ever heard of any that sound reasonable, though.