Foreword and Introduction

A “Not Quite A White Knight” Story

This Forward and the last two chapters tie the story to the “Not Quite A White Knight” universe. However, if that text is put aside by the reader the story stands alone as a woman faces her wedding night in an isolated society that grants the Lord the right of a first night with a new bride.

Chapters 3 and 5 focus closely on Gina’s choice and her education in sex. Some readers may go directly to those chapters.

Imagine a society where life is hard as manual farm labor predominates, and everyone knows the business of everyone else so that things can get done. Imagine a society where words like “Divorce,” “Infidelity,” and “Cuckold” have never existed, so they mean as much as the word “Google” would have meant to Albert Einstein, or “Laser” would have meant to Plato. Imagine a society where people take vows and keep them, there is no alternative model. Imagine a society where raising children, and seeing those children raise their own children, is a paramount personal value.

This is a background story for the “Not Quite A White Knight” series, dealing with the historical “right of the first night” which has evolved from the medieval times when the colony was founded. It is set in 1962 when, thanks in part to Che Guevara, the colony is looking outward for information. The “Not Quite A White Knight” stories are set in 2008, after much has changed.

The location is the Spanish colony founded east of the Andes Mountains, in a hot tropical climate, by unemployed conquistadors in South America around 1580, after the defeat of the Neo-Incas. After 1610, no additional settlers came to the colony until some men arrived in late 1945. Today the area is still isolated, no road or rail line comes within 50 miles of the colony. Access is by foot across the entire width of the Andes mountains, or by boat via a long, twisting, confusing river feeding the Amazon. Even in the 1960’s flying in was difficult as the mountain peaks are tall, there was no prepared landing strip and no fuel for the return flight.

Given the isolation and the small population inbreeding was a concern of the settlers. From the start meticulous records were kept; every birth is traced back to the original three waves of settlers and the native women who were left when their tribes died out.

Many concepts known by modern civilization, such as money, private property, imbued rights including democracy, religion, etc. are not known to this population. Three wars in Europe (they count the Spanish Civil War) have made them very distrustful of all outside forces and people, especially English and Germans.

Every year or two, there is a visitor to the colony from the outside world, bringing news and some goods to the Patron. These men, and their small support system, were established at the same time as the colony by the Spanish bishop who set up the colony. This bishop was wise planning for the very long term, the support system is devoted to the colony like a religious order, and is self-sufficient with a fleet of commercial cargo ships providing income. They are also charitable, running an respected orphanage masks profits and helps them keep contact with the colony.

In 1962 the colony did not trade with the outside world. However, as the Patron got more information from his agents, he learned that there ways he could earn a profit. Two decades later, export of the native pharmaceuticals began providing improvements to the colony.

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