Mentor?

Jeeves?

Batman (starting with British military sense of term, then twisting to
fit below description)?

On 15/04/17 13:26, Jeff Zeitlin wrote:
> ... for a person who is in the belowdescribed relationship with a
> scion of a noble or wealthy-and-socially-prominent line:
>
> ["the person" below refers to the person for whom I am seeking a term.
> "the scion" is the individual of noble blood who is the 'principal' in
> the relationship]
>
> When the scion is young, and perhaps still in school (even before
> majority), the person serves as a bodyguard, advisor, and tutor, but
> most of the learning that the person imparts is that of experience,
> rather than pure academics - he will allow his charge to get into
> trouble, and then *assist* him in getting back out, while explaining
> how the trouble came about and how it could have been avoided.
> Bodyguarding is not protecting him from *all* harm, but from threats
> that could impact the Family - if the scion provokes a bully, the
> person will not prevent the scion from having to take his lumps - but
> will tend any wounds afterward, and will offer to teach self-defense
> and non-provocation (where appropriate).
>
> As the scion gets older and more mature, the person will continue in
> all the roles described, but shifting more toward an advisor role, and
> gradually adding the role of 'facilitator' - when the scion moves to
> do something that this person sees as beneficial to the Family, he
> will do what he can - subtly - to promote the activity and elicit
> cooperation from others. In the advisory role, even if the scion is
> proposing to do "the right thing", whether by ethics, morals, Family
> benefit, etc., the person may argue against it, to get the person to
> clearly realize his own reasons for doing/proposing it.
>
> It is likely that the scion will come to view the person as a
> 'friend', though never as a 'lackey' - even though the scion has the
> 'social advantage' (i.e., higher status), the nonpublic relationship
> is far more equal, and quite often, the scion will specifically turn
> to the person for advice. Equally, the person will involved with the
> hiring of the scion's personal staff, and will often guide new staff
> members in their understanding and response to the business/social
> needs of the scion.
>
> [For those of you who have read the Jao Empire series by Eric Flint,
> K.D.Wentworth, and David Carrico, the Jao word for the role is
> 'fraghta'. I want to more-or-less have this role available in a
> generic Traveller universe - but I don't want to use the Jao word for
> it; I'd like a human word. In any language.]
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