While members of one court may not carry any clout within the court of a rival freehold, there is a mutual respect between the ruling families of Omnia, most granting a certain amount of leniency to their peers. While they vary in terms of size and titles, they all tend to follow the same order of ranks, each system being easily translatable between all freeholds. While the disparate villages of the Ashavan, Morians, and Nomani function with very little central authority, the five major political entities of Omnia all support robust aristocracies, each as complicated as they are powerful. The ladder of nobility is the mechanism by which the politics of Omnia will function for centuries to come. Historians continue to debate which fragments of this ancient system survived to build the modern Omnian hierarchy, but after one thousand years of dynastic culture, laws, and tradition, one thing is certain. Nobility is an institution that predates even the oldest documents of the Laore and Talamh, dating back the tribal and chiefdoms that would become the empires of old.
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