#moritat

Red Sonja: Death and the Devil #1 (variant cover) (2024)

like, no wonder there's a tradition of servant families handing down the same role through generations (see: orlio, azura): if the vast majority of the population is terrified of the open air, but serving in the palace requires comfort in open spaces, then the relevant hiring pool is going to be tiny. new employees will have to be either A) hired from other planets with Normal Biospheres or B) imperial-adjacent already, because the emperors own all the open spaces on trantor!!