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One key factor that is essential to understanding the Celegian Empire is to comprehend the fact that the Empire is consummately civilized. The Empire is a nice place to live for the most part. Of course, beneath the surface there is plenty of darkness, but on the whole the Celegians live a safe and healthy life. Most Celegians are only vaguely acquainted with violence and are insulated within their community. The enforcement of the laws is fairly informal, but several deities exist that are strongly interested in fair play and square dealings, and for most common people they serve to keep life fair. Of course, for the rich or noble, all bets are off. The Celegian culture is surprisingly lacking in barriers to advancement. The existence of magic ensures that anyone with sufficient native intelligence can become highly skilled and valuable to society, regardless of their rank of birth. No one rational will snub a powerful warrior or wizard who just happened to be born as a pig farmer. | One key factor that is essential to understanding the Celegian Empire is to comprehend the fact that the Empire is consummately civilized. The Empire is a nice place to live for the most part. Of course, beneath the surface there is plenty of darkness, but on the whole the Celegians live a safe and healthy life. Most Celegians are only vaguely acquainted with violence and are insulated within their community. The enforcement of the laws is fairly informal, but several deities exist that are strongly interested in fair play and square dealings, and for most common people they serve to keep life fair. Of course, for the rich or noble, all bets are off. The Celegian culture is surprisingly lacking in barriers to advancement. The existence of magic ensures that anyone with sufficient native intelligence can become highly skilled and valuable to society, regardless of their rank of birth. No one rational will snub a powerful warrior or wizard who just happened to be born as a pig farmer. | ||
This basically egalitarian social structure is one of the strengths of the Empire, since it allows the finest to rise. The training for magery is offered at Imperial expense to everyone who desires it and can prove they have aptitude. The cynical Imperial reasoning behind this policy is that the more magicians there are, the more the Empire will be able to benefit from their labors. The Empire rigidly controls the spells available to mages in order to protect its citizens. Destructive, manipulative, and privacy harming magics are the most tightly controlled. Of course, just because the Empire has few restrictions on the rise of its citizens that does not mean it casts down the high and mighty. The Empire has a large and firmly entrenched hereditary nobility, and one of the problems the Empire faces is the fact that most land is owned by a relatively small percentage of the population, and there is a large class of landless nobility and an even larger number of landless crafters and mages, the "middle | This basically egalitarian social structure is one of the strengths of the Empire, since it allows the finest to rise. The training for magery is offered at Imperial expense to everyone who desires it and can prove they have aptitude. The cynical Imperial reasoning behind this policy is that the more magicians there are, the more the Empire will be able to benefit from their labors. The Empire rigidly controls the spells available to mages in order to protect its citizens. Destructive, manipulative, and privacy harming magics are the most tightly controlled. Of course, just because the Empire has few restrictions on the rise of its citizens that does not mean it casts down the high and mighty. The Empire has a large and firmly entrenched hereditary nobility, and one of the problems the Empire faces is the fact that most land is owned by a relatively small percentage of the population, and there is a large class of landless nobility and an even larger number of landless crafters and mages, the "middle of the Empire, developing that is unhappy with the situation. There are several types of nobility in the Empire, depending on the source of the title. | ||
In rough order, the various classes of nobility are as follows: | In rough order, the various classes of nobility are as follows: | ||