Re: The Page as baddy.

I think we have to understand personal concepts of fealty in the middle ages to realise that what the page is doing is essentially noble. He usually says something like "I am Lord Darnell's man". Thus indicating that, despite his own preferences in the matter, he has an obligation to his lord. At the period in history we are talking about (I'm assuming it's basically a mediaeval story) society has only just emerged from the situation where it was considered a vile disgrace for a lord's retainers (upper class warriors) to survive him should he be killed in battle. They still regarded it as a moral obligation to belong to their lord, body and soul. It really doesn't make sense to try and impose our own peculiar style of morality on this situation - i.e. blame somebody for doing what he knows is the only reasonable course of action.

Sorry if this sounds pompous but the characterisation of the page as "brown nosed" doesn't appear realistic to me.

Cheers!Ian