Serfs Are Left Handed.

Hey Chants of Sennaar fans! It took an incredible amount of time, but at long last, I finally found out what I was looking for.

So. Have you ever wondered what, exactly, differentiates a Serf from a Bard?

obviously we can't determine the intelligences of the two and we don't know their history beyond what we've been shown, but just looking at the game, we can see it's not race, as they're all varied, not language, as they're on the same floor and speak the same thing, not gender, as while that's kinda hard to tell in this game one of the serfs we CAN speak to has a low timbre and several bards have a similar masculine cadence so it's not that either.

I have been searching for this entire time for some kind of explanation. ANY kind of indicator. And today, thinking about it on a whim, I finally found it.

A shot from the little puppet-show style stands in the garden level. The serf carries a saw, and the bard carries an instrument. Notably, the serf is using their left hand, and the bard, their right.

Guys.

A serf with a clipboard in their right hand and a pen in their left.

A bard in front of an easel, with a paint palette in their left hand and a brush in their right.

The serf holds the clipboard in their right. The bard holds the palette in their left. Both of them are holding writing utensils, but they're doing it in opposite ways.

The serf, with a hammer in their left hand, repairing a boat.

The bard in front of the Theater, taking a coin with their right hand.

Serfs are left handed.

smile for the camera

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gnawing at the bars of my enclosure as we speak

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dinanikto

2 months ago

I love the true lab and I reserve the right to get as edgy w it as I want

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dinanikto

2 months ago

On Harmony, Communication, And Good Will

On Harmony, Communication, and Good Will

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Do not be seen, do not be heard. Use hidden passages when you move. Be at hand before you are called. The serf lived as someone else’s background their entire life.

So when they ran from their home to the monastery it was only natural that the first thing they saw was the man at the lowest.

Greetings. Would you like to share this? ? I am sorry, I am not yet fluent in your language…

Ah, you must be one of the people from the upper floor. Well, I'll gladly take the food! No idea what you’re saying though. … Come to think of it, do you know this person?

Oh…! I heard they helped us come to the monastery. Though I only saw them in passing. (A stranger…? In here…? They’re not a serf…) I thought they were a pilgrim in search of the tower or the church. Turns out they were a traveler with no ties in the land.

When they saw me begging, they started. Searched their pockets and then ran off. And then, they came running back all out of breath. And handed me a coin.

A penniless traveler in a foreign land, running about to help a beggar they met on the streets. Isn’t it funny?

… They’re a good man. …Yes, they truly are.

Greetings! Greetings! Greetings!

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dinanikto

2 months ago

this is a very "which could mean nothing" moment, but just spitballing for a second here;

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dinanikto

6 months ago

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dinanikto

8 months ago

i keep seeing the increasing amount of antisemitism in leftist circles and as a jewish leftist i don't really like it. i don't like when people refuse to listen to jews when they speak about antisemitism.

nobody is immune to bigotry. just because you are a leftist (or claim to be one) it doesn't mean it's impossible for you to show microaggression.

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dinanikto

3 months ago