Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations
-R. Budd Dwyer on perseverance in his final press conference as treasurer of Pennsylvania[1]
It is implied through gameplay mechanics that the two kingdoms at war in chess both formally permit regnal polygamy, allowing the King to take at least nine wives of equal status, and that marriage can be bestowed as a military honour, but curiously that honour - in stark contrast to the conventional attitudes of the aristocracy - can only be bestowed upon soldiers of the unlanded class, leaving great questions to be asked of the material interests and stability of these kingdoms' aristocracies
There is a series of additions which provide necessary elaboration and address a lot of shit people are saying on this post.
