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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. | 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 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: | ||