That's what Eamon says, but Eamon isn't the Landsmeet. Clearly the Landsmeet is still willing to follow her. Aside from Eamon and whomever you happen to be asking for rumors, who disses on Anora for being a commoner?
Yeah the Landsmeet is willing to follow her under certain circumstances (personally I think that it's completely ridiculous that the warden is the one who makes this decision and makes no sense whatsoever and is pure game mechanics, but whatever), but they are also equally willing to toss her aside for a guy that has zero leadership expierence. The fact that they're even willing to do that at all (in the middle of such a huge crisis) to someone who by all accounts (even from her enemies) is extremely competent, speaks volumes about attitudes towards commoners.
I mean, really, if they were thinking in terms of competent leadership, they wouldn't even seriously consider Alistair at all. His only qualification for the job is his bloodline. So this is hardly a society that's built on advancing people baised on merit. The people who do manage to break out of their class and advance upwards are both lucky and very skilled.
Where exactly is this claim coming from?
It's a feudalistic medieval society where station is decided almost entirely by birth. You don't think that would be inherently oppressive? The nobility have to justify their position at the top of the food chain somehow, so they do by taking money from their people, using it to fund their fighters and claiming that it's necessary. That's how medieval societies work.
And this codex assertion is totally unrealistic:
However, in Ferelden, unlike nearly all other countries in Thedas, members of the nobility are not considered to be intrinsically better or afforded more rights than any other class; they just have different ones.
I mean the idea that the Cousland family would somehow have no better rights than a commoner is laughable. They live in a position of extreme wealth and priviledge and resources and for the codex to assume that it makes no difference in everyday life or in the rights of a commoner is extremely unrealistic.
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Yeah the Landsmeet is willing to follow her under certain circumstances (personally I think that it's completely ridiculous that the warden is the one who makes this decision and makes no sense whatsoever and is pure game mechanics, but whatever), but they are also equally willing to toss her aside for a guy that has zero leadership expierence. The fact that they're even willing to do that at all (in the middle of such a huge crisis) to someone who by all accounts (even from her enemies) is extremely competent, speaks volumes about attitudes towards commoners.
I mean, really, if they were thinking in terms of competent leadership, they wouldn't even seriously consider Alistair at all. His only qualification for the job is his bloodline. So this is hardly a society that's built on advancing people baised on merit. The people who do manage to break out of their class and advance upwards are both lucky and very skilled.
Where exactly is this claim coming from?
It's a feudalistic medieval society where station is decided almost entirely by birth. You don't think that would be inherently oppressive? The nobility have to justify their position at the top of the food chain somehow, so they do by taking money from their people, using it to fund their fighters and claiming that it's necessary. That's how medieval societies work.
And this codex assertion is totally unrealistic:
However, in Ferelden, unlike nearly all other countries in Thedas, members of the nobility are not considered to be intrinsically better or afforded more rights than any other class; they just have different
ones.
I mean the idea that the Cousland family would somehow have no better rights than a commoner is laughable. They live in a position of extreme wealth and priviledge and resources and for the codex to assume that it makes no difference in everyday life or in the rights of a commoner is extremely unrealistic.