<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=239807.msg11838420#msg11838420">Quote from: Empyrean on 22-11-2015, 03:45:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Something occurs to me about Starlight. She very well might not be literate. I mean, she was raised to be a courtesan-assasin. I don't know that she'd have been formally educated at all. That might be a problem or not to come up in play.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Its also worth pointing out that as a 'courtesan' she would be<em>highly</em>educated. In the Realm atleased, a 'courtesan' implies a extremely high level of training and quality, its less 'fancy whore' and more... 'geisha/high class performer/comfortgirl/artist' on top of the sex stuff. They are generally expected to be abreast of politics, philosophy and any other subject that their customers might want to chat about, as well as being famous as talented negotiators. There are university-level courtesan schools on the Blessed Island, and the two biggest Courtesan Houses are major powers in the Dynastic political landscape (to the point that<em>not</em>having a hired a courtesan to grease political negotiations is considered a snub to the other party).<br/><br/>Mind you, this is the Threshold, so one expects a less civilized experience... but if your character poses as a courtesan towards anyone powerful enough to know the difference, then the above is closer to their expectations of her. A illiterate courtesan would probably get laughed out of the bedroom, and/or punished for being a fake.<br/><br/>(Its worth noting,<em>my</em>character uses the term because its sounds nicer than 'Priestess who is very easy'  ;D , shes not a actual courtesan in any sense of the term. Hell, she doesnt even sell sex for money.)<br/><br/>Also, do we need a dot in Ling to be literate?<em>may have missed that</em>