I am working on how I want nobility and social status to work in my Magic Returns world.
It's complicated.
You aren't a noble when you're in one of the other cities, but your status back home has an effect on how you're treated. A quasi-legal immunity of sorts...
Wealth has a status of its own.
Being from Palernice gives a bonus to status.
Landed nobles will have wealth and some sort of legal enforcement power.
Sitting nobles (councilors and princes) will have legal enforcement powers, but some can be dirt poor.
It's all very confusing to put into GURPS terms or to spell out here. Which is ironic to me because I have a clear vision of how it all intermeshes.
It's complicated.
You aren't a noble when you're in one of the other cities, but your status back home has an effect on how you're treated. A quasi-legal immunity of sorts...
Wealth has a status of its own.
Being from Palernice gives a bonus to status.
Landed nobles will have wealth and some sort of legal enforcement power.
Sitting nobles (councilors and princes) will have legal enforcement powers, but some can be dirt poor.
It's all very confusing to put into GURPS terms or to spell out here. Which is ironic to me because I have a clear vision of how it all intermeshes.