"How did the nobles become noble in the first place!?"

They took it! At the tip of a sword!

I'm so happy the first comment is someone getting the reference
"I'll do it with a lance."
The irony is that the Normans were far more likely to be using spears instead of swords, which are more like the lances that William was using to become a noble. Nobles would have carried swords, but they were status symbols and treated with religious reverence. They would only be used in battle if the spear was thrown or broken.
- Spears are the timeless OG weapon.
- Swords were always a secondary weapon, like handguns are today. I think it's novels that created the meme.
Against the neck of the monarch. Unless you are forcing an agreement from the same your protest means nothing.

By being the most violent, sociopathic, greedy underhanded, incestuous back stabbers of all the people who lived anywhere near them.

🎵One of these things is not like the others 🎵
- By dying?

“There’s nothing more respectable than an ancient evil” — Voltaire

power doesn't automatically equal selfishness. you can take it away from them and do something that is good for all of humanity with it.

Town Chaos is better than TK.
The more likely scenario after the takeover is animal farm, not utopia.

Just sell it to someone and the entire system becomes legitimate

"I'm fighting back. Guess who can effort more weapons."

Guess who just armed the rebels. We were taught in the military that if we are armed, and run into local unarmed resistance, try to deescalate the situation. Unless we are outnumbered 5 to 1. At that point we were to withdraw to a more defendable position, because if they got violent, we were all dead and we just armed the civilians.
- We were taught in the military that if we are armed, and run into local unarmed resistance, try to deescalate the situation.
  I know because I've discussed and seen it innumerable times, but it always gives me a feeling of absurdity being reminded that the RoE for modern militaries in most combat zones is stricter than it is for US police.
- Unless we are outnumbered 5 to 1
  So as few as five unarmed people can take a trained, armed soldier? I would’ve thought that ratio should be higher. Good to know.

A lot of the medieval nobility were just Roman landowners at the time of the of the Western Empire. Sure their government collapsed, but they still owned the land amd had theeans to enforce that ownership. Which is why France had the right idea to liberate all those heads of state from their holdings 230 years ago

Only to a degree. The Franks and the Vikings(Norman/Rus/Danelaw) were largely the companions of conquering rulers.

As cgp Grey said, bigger army diplomacy.

One of their ancestors was a violent capable killer.

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