>>5455775There is a great many fun references QM touches upon here. Historically with the late medieval era and the growth of the power of the Church many noble families would send their lesser sons to become monks, as a means of expanding their influence and prestige. As a result many of these monks brought with them their noble expectations of upperclass lifestyle (despite what was originally supposed to be frugal ascetism), and that is also why many monastaries became good at the production of wine, cheese, and other things. Some times it got so decadent you'd wonder if you were at a nobles banquet or a monastary at all.
There's a funny story about the Monks of St Swithin approaching King Henry II to complain that their bishop had deprived them of three dishes. When the King asked how many they had left, they said 'Ten'. The King replied 'and I in my court am content with three!'
Something funny is that according to the Rule of St Benedict dinner was supposed to be eaten in silence, a time for contemplation and reflection, but the monks just got around this by making complicated sign language. Reminds me of binaric.
Of all the sins of the Flesh, I imagine TalOS by his example of still eating (and his contest of Feast with Russ), food is probably the one that is very loosely permitted in our Synod, especially with the abundance our Agri worlds will soon produce. Not to mention the corpstarch and gladiator circuses we use to keep our population satisfied, just like the Old Federation.
In any case, inevitably, the Cult Mechanicus valuing merit and skill it is inevitable that nobles, being of better genetics, educational upbringing, natural and artificial intelligence than the common man, have always been and will be the main source of recruitment for our priests as well as our acillians. The very best become acillians, while those who remain become priests. The lower ranks or those with less skill just become adepts or skitarii.
