Lohengrin
Dreamer
Hi guys, first post here. I'm not quite new to the forum, I just never bothered with posting. Usually I read everything and prefer to solve problems by myself but well... now I realized that I can't do everything alone, so if you guys could help me I'd appreciate (I'll try to keep it simple).
I've always read lots and lots of books, and something that always bothered me was how the story would take place in a small region, or a side of a continent, but the problems were huge. I mean, seriously, the bad guy is goint to take over the world, but apparently just that small side of the continent would try to stop the bad guy.
So I decided to write a book which would take place in an entire world, and it was working pretty well until I had to decide how my nobility would relate to each other. How would they live, how much respect did they get, and how much their king would influence the society.
I tried researching about feudalism, but that was not what I was looking for. The Kings seemed to weak to me, with no real power, and the Lords held almost all the power. They were pretty much tiny Kings in their own lands. So I broadened my research, backwards and forward.
And here is the problem, I never seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. Everything about rome talks about the senate, or the empire and their armies, but never about where and how nobility did survive. The same happens when I search about the Renaissance. Here it gets worse, I don't even know what happened to the nobility in this period, what I found out is that the Kings took most of their power, which then culminates in the Absolutism, but exactly what happened to the nobility? Did they turn into rich merchants? Did they still have armies? How exactly could a Lord influence a King?
So you see, I don't like feudalism because Kings are too weak, but I also don't like the Renaissance because then nobility was to weak. And I can't choose between both of them, I would like something between, but I can't really create my own system without knowing the answers to theses specific questions.
If someone has also any idea about what government system to use would help a lot.
Thanks a lot, and sorry if the text is too long and probably for mistakes I didn't realize, english is not my main language.
I've always read lots and lots of books, and something that always bothered me was how the story would take place in a small region, or a side of a continent, but the problems were huge. I mean, seriously, the bad guy is goint to take over the world, but apparently just that small side of the continent would try to stop the bad guy.
So I decided to write a book which would take place in an entire world, and it was working pretty well until I had to decide how my nobility would relate to each other. How would they live, how much respect did they get, and how much their king would influence the society.
I tried researching about feudalism, but that was not what I was looking for. The Kings seemed to weak to me, with no real power, and the Lords held almost all the power. They were pretty much tiny Kings in their own lands. So I broadened my research, backwards and forward.
And here is the problem, I never seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. Everything about rome talks about the senate, or the empire and their armies, but never about where and how nobility did survive. The same happens when I search about the Renaissance. Here it gets worse, I don't even know what happened to the nobility in this period, what I found out is that the Kings took most of their power, which then culminates in the Absolutism, but exactly what happened to the nobility? Did they turn into rich merchants? Did they still have armies? How exactly could a Lord influence a King?
So you see, I don't like feudalism because Kings are too weak, but I also don't like the Renaissance because then nobility was to weak. And I can't choose between both of them, I would like something between, but I can't really create my own system without knowing the answers to theses specific questions.
If someone has also any idea about what government system to use would help a lot.
Thanks a lot, and sorry if the text is too long and probably for mistakes I didn't realize, english is not my main language.