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Folder: World
Title: Society & Social Classes
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# Society & Social Classes
## Overview
Society within Ashenveil is diverse and constantly changing.
While birth influences opportunity, wealth, reputation, and personal achievement often matter just as much.
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## Common Social Classes
• Royalty
• Nobility
• Knights
• Clergy
• Merchants
• Craftsmen
• Farmers
• Laborers
• Criminals
• Outcasts
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## Reputation
Reputation is valuable.
Acts of courage, generosity, cruelty, betrayal, or leadership spread through travelers, merchants, soldiers, and local gossip.
A person's actions often become known far beyond their home.
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## Mobility
Although difficult, social advancement is possible.
Merchants become nobles.
Commoners earn knighthood.
Scholars advise kings.
Mercenaries establish companies.
Great deeds open doors that birth alone cannot.
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## Related Pages
• Everyday Life
• Kingdoms
• Factions