Nobility Reform: Nobility Career

(Year 234, Winter) The second part of the Nobility Reform, is the new Nobility career. It is totally separated from the first part, the Dynasties. Technically a noble person won't need a dynasty, and a Dynasty member don't need to join the Nobility Career. In Mazaloom these two features do connect, though, as we use the career slightly different. You can't have a peerage without also being member of a House, and all Houses had to register as dynasties in order to obtain theiur new emblem.

By design, the career is like any other career where you start on the lowest level and climb your way up through promotions. In Mazaloom and our neighboring nations, the career is used for categorizing nobility. This means you get the level of the career that suits with your highest ranked peerage. The category is static, and no promotions will be involved.

Nobility reform is a joint projects between Empire of Snorthia, Mazaloom kingdom, and Sea kingdom. Of these three Mazaloom is the only with a large peerage involving numerous nobles. Still, the three nations have agreed on a rank of 10 levels where at least the top and bottom are quite similar. It makes it easier for all to understand at least these levels.

Left to right: HRM King Tarriot of Mazaloom, the Emperor of Snorthia, HRM King Salomar of Sea.

In addition, Empire of Snorthia also have 3 internal kingdoms, but only one of those are still an active kingdom; The Kingdom of Simerinia. Their king is minor to the Emperor, and ranks below both the Emperor and his Crown Princi.

Future Emperors and Monarchs will come from heritage. The only kingdom that can be claimed by duelling might be the Simerinia kingdom (Khun).

The bottom level for all is Knight/Dame, titles not used by either nation before. Becoming a Knight/Dame, simply means you get a start of nobility. It involves no peerage, and has little purpose beyond being allowed working as a noble. Empire of Snorthia has promised to implement the Knight/Dame level shortly, but at the moment it has not been handled.

In Mazaloom the 2nd level is our Master titles, neither are they actually seen as real nobility, but they had to be included above Knight/Dame.

HN means High Nobility.

As was indicated in the article covering Dynasties, each level of Nobility gets a unique shape of their Crest. 

In Mazaloom kingdom Barons use one shape (4), while dukes use another (8), monarch use the 10th. The 10 ranks have different titles in each nation. All 3 nations aggreed on using the same crest shapes ranked as above, but their titles will differ - see below.

So, when seeing a certain dynasty crest from Snorthia, Mazaloom, or Sea, you will immediately know the rank of that dynasty. All round crests (1) are used by the lowest level, Knight/Dame, and the solid background color will indicate where the dynasty belongs, geographically. All dynasties on level 1 use the brown background, while all ranking higher will use the burgundy color.