Only nobles can maintain power in the long-term, but nobility isn't an innate biological quality. In the short-term, you can certainly staff a government (mainly) with commoners:
"This means you cannot use unreconstructed armigers in your civil or public service. Previous experience is not qualifying, but disqualifying. You have to make d…
Only nobles can maintain power in the long-term, but nobility isn't an innate biological quality. In the short-term, you can certainly staff a government (mainly) with commoners:
"This means you cannot use unreconstructed armigers in your civil or public service. Previous experience is not qualifying, but disqualifying. You have to make do with yeomen and a sprinkle of dissidents."
In the long run a new noble class will develop, perhaps some of its members will be children or grandchildren of the old, but most need not be.
Only nobles can maintain power in the long-term, but nobility isn't an innate biological quality. In the short-term, you can certainly staff a government (mainly) with commoners:
"This means you cannot use unreconstructed armigers in your civil or public service. Previous experience is not qualifying, but disqualifying. You have to make do with yeomen and a sprinkle of dissidents."
In the long run a new noble class will develop, perhaps some of its members will be children or grandchildren of the old, but most need not be.