![]() High King is the title for which everyone is scheming for - it’s a winning condition of the game to declare yourself a high king and being able to repel attacks of the rivals until your position is solidified.įactions are started by creating an alliance of lords and their respective vassals. They will then build them up all the while working towards taking power for themselves and their political faction. Initial MMO players will manage their conquered lands by organizing it into feudums, which are areas formed for administrative purposes. The lords of the land are all playing the “Game of Thrones” to see who can seize power and rule the land. Feudums take place in a land where the high king has died, leaving a power vacancy in his passing. In the 4X MMO-Strategy game Feudums, this is the level where players will start. Each lord provided management over individual fiefs, or feudums, in exchange for their loyalty and military and tax support. Nobles ranged from low-class (maybe even just titular, landless) nobles actually providing military service for their title and rank, to high-class nobles like the big landlords, holding several feudums and their own vassals, to the peers of the king - who could rival or exceeded their monarch in military or political power. Even ruling class members had a social strata depending on the circumstances of their birth and how powerful the family was. ![]() The next level up were the Nobles, or Lords, who ruled the king’s estates. A soldier could be knighted by a monarch or their liege and could even become a landholder - as a vassal to the king. ![]() Only the most exceptional soldier had even a remote chance to move up and out of the ranks of the peasantry. The best of the best might become a knight. While common soldiers weren’t held in much better regard than many serfs, they had better quarters and were better clothed and fed. The next layer of the pyramid were knights and soldiers. These enjoyed a better status in life although they worked just as hard to survive. While the great many serfs had no education or special skills, some showed promise and had an aptitude for woodworking or as a blacksmith. One small step up from serfs were freemen and craftsman. ![]() Serfs helds various jobs in a feudum - from working the fields, harvesting the resources of the land or working to make sure the buildings of the land were kept in repair, their lot in life was a hard one. Unlike slaves, however, they could not be bought, sold, or traded. They could not leave the land of their birth without permission and gave up much of what was produced to their lord. Serfs were just the regular people of their day who lived in the villages and worked the land of the feudum. Almost 90% of the population of Medieval Europe were serfs. In almost all cases, your position in the pyramid depended on your birth status and nothing more.Īt the bottom rung, were the serfs and peasants. Medieval societal structure was like a pyramid with the lower class creating the large base while slowly moving higher with more “royal” and less people occupying higher slots. But the European lords must of liked the pyramid design because they copied it, not in architecture, but for their society. The ancient Egyptians built their pyramids long before there were castles and knights in Europe. ![]()
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