![]() ![]() ![]() ( Public domain ) Studying the Whipping Boy Concept: Truth or Myth? The concept of the whipping boy uncovers the skewed social hierarchy of medieval times. Enter the whipping boy! Let’s learn more about one of the great injustices of the medieval world: taking a beating meant for someone else! ![]() But they also had to revert to good old whipping in order to punish bad results, because a child is a child, no matter how highborn. So how then do you go about reprimanding a young schoolboy, who also happens to be your king, his heir, or simply a very highborn lad? Throughout history, these noble boys and girls often had special tutors, who would teach all the advanced subjects. To lay one’s hand on a nobleman was often a transgression punishable in the most severe way, sometimes even by death. In all corners of the globe, aristocrats and nobles, kings and young princes, were all deemed to be untouchable, larger than life and protected by divine rights. The history of the world’s nobility is filled with extravagance, wealth, and, more than often, with arrogance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But when James returns to Douglas to force the English garrison from his castle, Joanna learns that their love is nothing against his ambition. Yet even as James’s ruthless reputation grows, and despite the warnings of others to guard her heart-and her virtue-against him, Joanna never dreams he will turn on her. That she is “only” the daughter of the marshal of Douglas Castle has never concerned her. Joanna Dicson has loved James Douglas for as long as she can remember. ![]() Not even the lass who captured his heart in childhood and still holds it in her delicate hands. The ambitious young knight, whose dark visage, powerful stature, and ferocity in battle has earned him the epitaph “the Black,” knows he must use fear, force, and intimidation to defeat the English, put Robert the Bruce on Scotland’s throne, and restore the honor of the Douglas name. Stripped of his lands by the English king who killed his father, James Douglas will do whatever it takes to see his clan’s honor and fortune restored. ![]() ![]() ![]() The release date was initially set for December 2014, but was pushed back to February 2017.Īn early in-game screenshot from "the Bloom" area At the campaign's conclusion, Torment: Tides of Numenera had set the record for highest-funded video game on Kickstarter with over US$4 million pledged. The game was successfully crowd-funded through Kickstarter in the first six hours of the project's launch in March 2013. ![]() Torment: Tides of Numenera, like its predecessor, is primarily story-driven while placing greater emphasis on interaction with the world and characters, with combat and item accumulation taking a secondary role. ![]() The game takes place in The Ninth World, a science fantasy campaign setting written by Monte Cook for his tabletop RPG Numenera. It is a spiritual successor to 1999's Planescape: Torment. Torment: Tides of Numenera is a role-playing video game developed by inXile Entertainment and published by Techland Publishing for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. ![]() |