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You've already mentioned cross & crown as the two great pillars of authority in human society for much of its history. …

Each individual in any society stands at the head of a polydimensional and interlinked pyramid of interlaced social fibres the nodes of which are both the individual's own pyramid structure and simultaneously …

I suspect Rangers, as a class, would be fairly adaptable. They'd be able hunters, trackers, warriors, odd jobs men, kings in waiting, news bringers, mercenaries, and the like. As for roles they'd be p …

Look at a primary world example of a persistent minority that has been rather routinely discriminated against. Jews. They tend, in many regards, to turn away from the cultural norms of their numerical …

Sophont rights is another option. This one has the advantage of being well known in the SF genre already. According to Wiktionary: (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent being; a being with a base …

The way you describe them sounds like this is a hard-wired, bred-in bioevolutionary situation. In other words, we're not dealing with human beings, but rather with a different race. Having had some …

Why wear clothing at all? Always consider the option of wearing nothing at all apart from decorative bits & bling and protective gear. Clothing, for the vast majority of the human race, is a matter of …

Obviously These dragonfolk have these qualities in common with humanfolk: sophont intelligence & awareness ability to communicate ability to assign value to discrete sorts of materials ability to rea …

Because Western Union Already Did It Nature abhors a vacuum, and people loathe change. Drawing inspiration from the Font of All Knowledge, it appears that rotary dials are not exactly new ideas in t …

Sorry to Burst Your Bubbl(ing Cauldron)! The fact of the matter is: there is no sensible reason to brew potions in extreme bulk, except as a potions master preparing stock for sale or distribution. Mo …

For a general term, I'd use either moonstricken or lunage. The English lunatic would also work on etymological grounds, but might be too engrained in readers' minds as a pejorative term for mentally i …

Well, creatures probably wouldn't... But people might just! If the naturally armored folk you're speaking of have a culture that values status displays of any kind, warriors might just create at lea …

A very similar question was posted here a while back. The basic answer is: once you figure out what this country's succession law is, you'll have the answer to your question! (And it may well be that …

One possibility is that all the radiation fried their genes and what we're seeing is the origin of a new subspecies that has lost some of its ancestors' cognitive faculty. Perhaps they really aren't …

Well, their ancestors did it, so there's no reason they couldn't if they chose to. The main technical challenge, I'd think, is simply working through all the baby steps required to get back to a highe …