Having done that myself - restored a fictional monarchy even though I am a republican - I justify it as being true to the world that I had created. If the book is inspired by a certain type of society with certain sets of beliefs the degree to which you can play with those is limited by some inner authorial plausibility test derived from history.
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Date: 2009-07-13 05:14 pm (UTC)