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house wars, finished politics>FE>nobility section
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Terris stewards/servants.{{book ref|mb1|10}}({{book ref|mb1|16}}){{expand}} <br>
"hasn’t been an all-out war among the Great Houses for over a century, but the last one was devastating."{{book ref|mb1|12}} <br>
When Great Houses grew nervous, more Allomancers held watch, but noblemen Mistings wouldn't like being forced to guard duty. Many nobility blatantly wore metal, a foolish form of bravado
Major noble families generally never had more than three children because they had trouble reproducing.{{book ref|mb1|21}} <br>
Plantation lords often spent their winters in Luthadel, during the time in between the planting seasons. {{book ref|mb1|22}} <br>
==== Nobility ====
Besides the Lord Ruler and the Steel Ministry, the high nobility is also influential in the capital of the Final Empire. These families are called Great Houses, those who can afford to own a keep in Luthadel
Noble houses might work together when it benefits them, but if killing a rival further secures their own social standing they are not afraid to do so.{{book ref|mb1|28}} In fact, every couple of centuries a house war is fought.{{book ref|mb1|6}} These are no wars with big battles, but rather a long series of assassinations, so that the houses involved can keep pretending they are not responsible.{{book ref|mb1|28}} Sometimes the Lord Ruler orders a stop to the fighting, but often he would just step back and let powerful noble families kill each other so that less established houses can take their place, lest the nobility should get too powerful to be a threat to him.{{book ref|mb1|26}}
The nobles are who actually force the skaa to work. In principle the Lord Ruler owns all skaa, but noblemen rent skaa from him to do with as they want.{{book ref|mb1|prologue}} They are then set to work in one of their many mines, fields, forges or mills. While they do not pay the skaa much if at all,{{book ref|mb1|6}} the nobility is responsible for feeding their skaa,{{book ref|mb1|32}} yet in the end most nobles treat skaa little better than slaves.{{book ref|mb1|22}} This political structure effectively means that the Lord Ruler and his Steel Ministry only need to keep the nobility in check, because in turn the nobility keeps the skaa under control. Only in case of a rebellion the Luthadel Garrison is sent out to intervene.
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