[ No, he's noticed there does seem to be a prevalence. He's met enough yet where what the knight is describing is also true, although such worlds seem to - like the knight's - possess fantastic feats of magic or the like. Athos wonders if perhaps the only reason that women have the lot they do in his world is purely because they aren't blessed with the real magic these other worlds seem to have. Rather difficult to burn them at the stake for witchcraft when they can create hailstorms or fireballs from their own bodies.

What would Ninon have made of that. ]

I've no doubt that with greater means there are greater perils. Perhaps your world accepts women as equals because there is simply no point in not utilising every able body, as what happens to ours in times of great need. Magic cannot only simplify a life, surely.