The Power of Excellence
Within every society is someone who has excelled in some way over others that their word becomes law. Or, occasionally, it is a group and, at times, it is not excelling so much as exceeding. Excelling would be for virtuous peronality traits or activities, such as bravery or saving the lone crop of grain during a terrible cold snap. Exceeding would be a lot of virtue or an excess of some personality trait, such as less familial feeling and being full of murderous intent. The individual may promote family or friend to succeed them. Family and friend may prove to grasp the succession like a pillow over the face of the trusting. The ways of building up within a society what amounts to a noble class are as many and varied as the dark twistings and light turnings of the human heart. However it happened in the history of Ordem, it happened. As it did in Ordine. As it did in Kaenisbeth. No one can, as of this date, tell us how it was that the persons who were considered rulers and bette...
