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Squire?

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On Fri, 4/14/17, Jeff Zeitlin <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] I need a term...
 To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, April 14, 2017, 8:26 PM

 ... 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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