Humans try to make sense of the world they live in, and often fail.
[ That's the most succinct explanation he can give for it. He could explain the fear of the men that they would lose control, and the gradual shift towards the notion that women must be gentle, which turned over the decades into law. But that would take a long time, and that is not this story. ]
Noble's children come to the palace at the age of 10, and spend 4 years learning, training and serving the court as pages before they are made squires. Then they are taken into a knight's service for 4 years, after which they are permitted to undergo the Ordeal of Knighthood.
Should they survive the Ordeal without uttering a sound, they are made knights.
I can't remember if I read them or Immortals first but that was middle school
[ That's the most succinct explanation he can give for it. He could explain the fear of the men that they would lose control, and the gradual shift towards the notion that women must be gentle, which turned over the decades into law. But that would take a long time, and that is not this story. ]
Noble's children come to the palace at the age of 10, and spend 4 years learning, training and serving the court as pages before they are made squires. Then they are taken into a knight's service for 4 years, after which they are permitted to undergo the Ordeal of Knighthood.
Should they survive the Ordeal without uttering a sound, they are made knights.