In this world, the children of nobles without inheritance rights who followed a more powerful noble sought nothing more than three things: wealth, power, and a fief.
The difficulty of obtaining these three things increased in that respective order.
It was said that for one of the Free People to become a landed noble, they would generally go through the following stages:
The first generation would become an official or servant to a noble.
The second generation would awaken an Extraordinary Ability, earn merits by following a noble, and become a Knight—the lowest rank of nobility, also known as a Sir.
The third generation, building upon their status as a Sir, would use their merits to be formally granted a noble title.
Although some exceptional individuals could shorten the process, most relied on several generations of accumulated effort, talent, and luck to enter the ranks of the nobility.
