So You Like to Read the Young Wizards Series

This was going to include Rirhath (and by virtue the greater galactic society?) and Demisiv, but considering Wellakh probably wins the prize for being the most complicated planet in the YW universe (at least, that we have sufficient information about. I’m sure that there are many other, much more complicated planets, which we know nothing about.), I left it at this. Maybe I’ll explore greater galactic society more at a later date (like, after AWoM, which could completely contradict me, I have not read it yet).

Because thinking about social structures and institutions and how it all works together is one of those things that I think is interesting (aka, I’m planning to take sociology as my college minor), I thought that I might try a little thought experiment, and take the data that we do have to extrapolate on how other things on Wellakh might work, at least on a very basic, speculative level. I’ve broken it down into the five basic sociological institutions (as given to me by my sociology textbook, though this does not mean that there aren’t other subcategories or even that Wellakh might have more important social institutions by nature of it being an alien planet), but I took out the two that I had the least information about (Religion/Belief Systems and Education), because this post is a monster as is, and would be unmanageable in any other case.

( Warning: Teal Deer Ahead )

So, what do you guys think? Am I a nutter on all counts? What do you think about Wellakh’s social structure, and how it might play out in greater galactic politics and society. What about the two that I left out (religion/belief systems and education)? (I would be totally stoked to discuss these things too, and in fact have saved what I originally wrote on the topics.) I don’t know, this is just stuff that I think about (way too much for my own good), so feel free to engage on one or all of these topics.