Anar
Above the Gumaria and Gumenaria sit the highest form of what the modern person might call "peasants."
Having dedicated themselves to twenty years of service under the Empire Of Kanda's Military, these men are entitled to a lease of a hundred times the average amount of land as any Gumar! However, alongside all of the benefits of having so much more land comes the responsibility of managing that land and the people who live on it!
While not nobility, Anaria are considered important members of the lower classes; able to maintain the connections to the much more common Gumaria! Their role in society is important, especially along the lines of general administration!
Having dedicated themselves to twenty years of service under the Empire Of Kanda's Military, these men are entitled to a lease of a hundred times the average amount of land as any Gumar! However, alongside all of the benefits of having so much more land comes the responsibility of managing that land and the people who live on it!
While not nobility, Anaria are considered important members of the lower classes; able to maintain the connections to the much more common Gumaria! Their role in society is important, especially along the lines of general administration!
Qualifications
With exception, when a boy becomes a man at sixteen years of age he has two years to sign himself into military service. Thereafter the young man will serve no less than ten years as a Leconis. After ten years that man may choose to reenlist for ten more years or may accept the payment and spoils for his tenure and receive a Gume (about sixty acres) of land to retire and start a family upon.
If The Leconis In Question Decides To Reenlist, He Is Doing So With It In His Mind To AT LEAST Become An Annar! After a second term of Ten Years of Service to The Empire a man may either reenlist for five more years as an officer OR May choose to take his collective payment and will receive an Anno from the Imperial Kensaria to retire and start a Family upon!
If The Leconis In Question Decides To Reenlist, He Is Doing So With It In His Mind To AT LEAST Become An Annar! After a second term of Ten Years of Service to The Empire a man may either reenlist for five more years as an officer OR May choose to take his collective payment and will receive an Anno from the Imperial Kensaria to retire and start a Family upon!
Requirements
In having had to serve no less than two complete terms, it's generally accepted that an Annar cannot be any less than 36 years old, however, there are exceptions.
Twenty Years Of Hard Military Service Is Required To Attain This Lofty Position! It is assumed that, if a Leconis has the mettle to survive twenty years on the march, he has the necessary skills and capacity to maintain a degree of decorum, manage his estate and not be in debt. Soldiers MAY be held in service until they are out of debt to make sure that they will not lease land irresponsibly!
The Empire Of Kanda, ideally, does not train profligates! If one desires the Anno of their father they must first be the appropriate heir in line (typically the oldest child that has not inherited) and have served twenty years in the Military without debt or permanent reprimand. Assuming this one may apply, at the end of their second term of service, to receive their father's land as payment for their labors alongside whatever non-land related rewards they have gathered in their time as a soldier. (Slaves, extra money, horses, potential political/social promises, etc) If one's family, as with all other parcels of land, has owned an Anno for five generations, the sixth generation may choose to only serve for a single term and thereafter inherit the land in perpetuity; passing from lease to ownership. The Family may thereafter refer to the Anno using their own House's Name.
Twenty Years Of Hard Military Service Is Required To Attain This Lofty Position! It is assumed that, if a Leconis has the mettle to survive twenty years on the march, he has the necessary skills and capacity to maintain a degree of decorum, manage his estate and not be in debt. Soldiers MAY be held in service until they are out of debt to make sure that they will not lease land irresponsibly!
The Empire Of Kanda, ideally, does not train profligates! If one desires the Anno of their father they must first be the appropriate heir in line (typically the oldest child that has not inherited) and have served twenty years in the Military without debt or permanent reprimand. Assuming this one may apply, at the end of their second term of service, to receive their father's land as payment for their labors alongside whatever non-land related rewards they have gathered in their time as a soldier. (Slaves, extra money, horses, potential political/social promises, etc) If one's family, as with all other parcels of land, has owned an Anno for five generations, the sixth generation may choose to only serve for a single term and thereafter inherit the land in perpetuity; passing from lease to ownership. The Family may thereafter refer to the Anno using their own House's Name.
Appointment
Merely finishing one's second term of service affords them the opportunity for their own personal Anno.
There is generally not much ceremony or ritual other than signing all manner of documents at the end of one's military term.
However, the process of actually receiving one's land, going through all of the parchmentwork, accepting payments, preparing for one's retirement, etc all require immense amounts of time and tedium and any single document must be read through and approved by a military Kensar AND A Military Skurrilos of no less than Letanis Grade; meaning that many men can serve for several months longer than they have been assigned simply due to a lack of proper bookkeeping. After officially signing out of the Military the Kensaria will ask them what sort of land they want, if they have a preferred region to settle and what sort of crops and animals they desire to tend. Upon getting these answers the Kensar taking care of the soldier's case will investigate (over the next month or so) any and all suitable Annia for this soldier and USUALLY give them an Anno that fits in the center of their greatest desires and their worst fears.
They will gladly oblige, for example, in working with the Leconis in question to make sure that his Annar has an ample population of herdsmen; as he may confide in them a dream to build a successful cattle driving community.
At the same time, the Kensar in question might well ensure the best such land is kept in reserve for the higher, more deserving soldiers with better track records and more accomplishments under their belts! If a soldier desires he may willingly relinquish part of his military due to raise his choosing power and the potential quality of the Anno he receives.
All manner of potential Annaria have collected large quantities of slave vouchers during their decades of service only to turn most of them into the military infrastructure in exchange for first choice at extremely high quality parcels of land.
This sort of indirectly competitive choosing process also helps bolster the military's inventories; allowed to be choosy about giving land away and only becoming less so when the system at large benefits from a single soldier's personal desires for an improved retirement. You receive what you have earned.
If you feel you deserve to receive better land then, for it, you would be glad to relinquish some of the OTHER Stuff you earned!
There is generally not much ceremony or ritual other than signing all manner of documents at the end of one's military term.
However, the process of actually receiving one's land, going through all of the parchmentwork, accepting payments, preparing for one's retirement, etc all require immense amounts of time and tedium and any single document must be read through and approved by a military Kensar AND A Military Skurrilos of no less than Letanis Grade; meaning that many men can serve for several months longer than they have been assigned simply due to a lack of proper bookkeeping. After officially signing out of the Military the Kensaria will ask them what sort of land they want, if they have a preferred region to settle and what sort of crops and animals they desire to tend. Upon getting these answers the Kensar taking care of the soldier's case will investigate (over the next month or so) any and all suitable Annia for this soldier and USUALLY give them an Anno that fits in the center of their greatest desires and their worst fears.
They will gladly oblige, for example, in working with the Leconis in question to make sure that his Annar has an ample population of herdsmen; as he may confide in them a dream to build a successful cattle driving community.
At the same time, the Kensar in question might well ensure the best such land is kept in reserve for the higher, more deserving soldiers with better track records and more accomplishments under their belts! If a soldier desires he may willingly relinquish part of his military due to raise his choosing power and the potential quality of the Anno he receives.
All manner of potential Annaria have collected large quantities of slave vouchers during their decades of service only to turn most of them into the military infrastructure in exchange for first choice at extremely high quality parcels of land.
This sort of indirectly competitive choosing process also helps bolster the military's inventories; allowed to be choosy about giving land away and only becoming less so when the system at large benefits from a single soldier's personal desires for an improved retirement. You receive what you have earned.
If you feel you deserve to receive better land then, for it, you would be glad to relinquish some of the OTHER Stuff you earned!
Duties
An Annar's Duty, if it is anything, is to start a business!
As an individual with a hundred families under his belt and twenty years of service to the Empire Of Kanda, The average Annar is encouraged to dream of a business that will make a name for him and his family! After twenty years in their careers MOST prospective Annaria have already started considering arranged marriages and have already passed up the potential for a hard life in the fields. Instead they can count on having plenty of spare time to count money and ensure taxes are flowing in properly. An annar may want to preside over flowing fields of grain and flax or may have always dreamed of owning a functioning shipyard and trade port.
Regardless, Annaria have the manpower working for them to chase these dreams and the capacity to pull that manpower into motion; at least with their Leev's Permission!
As an individual with a hundred families under his belt and twenty years of service to the Empire Of Kanda, The average Annar is encouraged to dream of a business that will make a name for him and his family! After twenty years in their careers MOST prospective Annaria have already started considering arranged marriages and have already passed up the potential for a hard life in the fields. Instead they can count on having plenty of spare time to count money and ensure taxes are flowing in properly. An annar may want to preside over flowing fields of grain and flax or may have always dreamed of owning a functioning shipyard and trade port.
Regardless, Annaria have the manpower working for them to chase these dreams and the capacity to pull that manpower into motion; at least with their Leev's Permission!
Responsibilities
Annaria must manage a hundred Gumia and so are often very busy with the day to day affairs of:
Patrolling The Land
Maintaining Peace Between Feuding Gumaria Households
Ensuring The Crops Are Growing And The Animals Are Producing
Collecting Taxes
Managing Affairs Assigned To Them By The Sharleev
Doling Out Punishments For Minor Offenses
Educating Their Subordinates On The Finer Matters Of Lower Politics
Maintaining A Local Militia For Their Leev
And Anything Else That Happens To Come Up Based On The Anno In Question! Obviously this is the most simplified of lists for an Annaria Responsibility!
One Annar may live in boggy riverlands and may have to regularly patrol along the swamps with his men to ensure that there are no raiders in the sunken wood while another entirely may live in high mountains and must go every day to traverse the peaks to ensure the local Eagle Populations are thriving by order of his sharleev.
While many of these responsibilities might end up becoming strictly ceremonial depending on where the Annar lives, they would still do well to maintain such labors to keep good relations with their direct superiors. Unlike the Gumaria and Gumenaria beneath them, the life of an Annar isn't as potentially varied or complex as his subordinates.
Because of the nature of delegation and how naturally it is required in managing an Anno, Most Annaria end up becoming similarly skilled with only mild specialties and hobbies in the background.
Perhaps one Annar may be interested in raising and riding horses and practicing cavalry maneuvers while another may collect vast libraries of books and delight in researching all manner of academics but BOTH of them will essentially have the same job description of counting sums, handling disputes, training men to fight and maintaining the law and land. Not only will these skills be their main tools for fulfilling the responsibilities of their position but will also take over the bulk of their actual day to day activities once they settle in to oversee the populace.
Patrolling The Land
Maintaining Peace Between Feuding Gumaria Households
Ensuring The Crops Are Growing And The Animals Are Producing
Collecting Taxes
Managing Affairs Assigned To Them By The Sharleev
Doling Out Punishments For Minor Offenses
Educating Their Subordinates On The Finer Matters Of Lower Politics
Maintaining A Local Militia For Their Leev
And Anything Else That Happens To Come Up Based On The Anno In Question! Obviously this is the most simplified of lists for an Annaria Responsibility!
One Annar may live in boggy riverlands and may have to regularly patrol along the swamps with his men to ensure that there are no raiders in the sunken wood while another entirely may live in high mountains and must go every day to traverse the peaks to ensure the local Eagle Populations are thriving by order of his sharleev.
While many of these responsibilities might end up becoming strictly ceremonial depending on where the Annar lives, they would still do well to maintain such labors to keep good relations with their direct superiors. Unlike the Gumaria and Gumenaria beneath them, the life of an Annar isn't as potentially varied or complex as his subordinates.
Because of the nature of delegation and how naturally it is required in managing an Anno, Most Annaria end up becoming similarly skilled with only mild specialties and hobbies in the background.
Perhaps one Annar may be interested in raising and riding horses and practicing cavalry maneuvers while another may collect vast libraries of books and delight in researching all manner of academics but BOTH of them will essentially have the same job description of counting sums, handling disputes, training men to fight and maintaining the law and land. Not only will these skills be their main tools for fulfilling the responsibilities of their position but will also take over the bulk of their actual day to day activities once they settle in to oversee the populace.
Benefits
While the benefits of being an Annar, like the benefits of being a Gumar, are more or less self explanatory it is still important to make note of them!
Like a Gumar, the average Annar may handle the land under him and benefit off of that land, provided he pays his proper taxes and maintains his responsibilities!
Unlike a Gumar, instead of personally hunting or gathering iron, he benefits from the labor pool beneath him and may direct his people to certain locations that he desires to be exploited!
For example, An Anno on the boggy northernmost shores of Kanda might have people well suited to gathering Iron and sustainably hunting seals for their pelts and ivory! The Annar overseeing this region would go out of his way to ensure that his people maintain this sort of lifestyle and will find ways of making it more efficient and sustainable! The more his people produce the more tax he receives from them and the more income he gathers from the fruits of his land!
In stark contrast, a rural Annar in the Core may direct his people to ease up on bulk farming and use some of their more comfortable position to assign his people to experiment with crop yields and seed culture... or may order new orchards planted on the best Gumia of his property to allow for personal treats or greater private profits! While Gumaria and Gumenaria may technically plant whatever they want on their land, an Annar may "Recommend" that they consider different crops if it would serve the Annar on the whole better! Annaria often sit on the personal councils of their Sharleev superiors!
Those that have proven themselves loyal and capable are often assigned titles like "Master Of Horses" or "Leev's Personal Kennelmaster" or "Master Of Arms For The Leev" and other such positions. These Annaria, in the inner courts of their direct superiors, are often able to vie for higher political sway, entry into grander social schemes and better education for their children. If an Annar can get a particularly close relationship with his direct superior he might even be able to arrange a marriage between his own son and his Leev's Daughter!
While not TECHNICALLY nobility, The Annar is the lowest stage of society where "social climbing" is at all possible; with the general consensus that if one WANTED to be high enough in the ranks of society to have the opportunity to gain even more notoriety they would at least stick it out for a second term of military service! While perhaps not the most tangible, the most OBVIOUS benefit to being an Annar is control over others!
Being an Annar means that, legally, people answer to you; that they MUST Answer To You!
While no Annar is alone and all Annaria must answer to a superior, they have hundreds beneath them that also must answer to them! They have the ability to carry out the law and to act as judge, jury and possibly executioner on certain factors within their respective jurisdictions. While a Gumenar may be a well accepted, centrally located, responsible bookkeeper for the community who has a lot of trust but no real power... an Annar is an official, legally empowered title that allows one man to have control of no less than (Potentially!) a hundred other men!
It is a benefit, after all, only given out for a considerable time serving the empire!
Unlike a Gumar, instead of personally hunting or gathering iron, he benefits from the labor pool beneath him and may direct his people to certain locations that he desires to be exploited!
For example, An Anno on the boggy northernmost shores of Kanda might have people well suited to gathering Iron and sustainably hunting seals for their pelts and ivory! The Annar overseeing this region would go out of his way to ensure that his people maintain this sort of lifestyle and will find ways of making it more efficient and sustainable! The more his people produce the more tax he receives from them and the more income he gathers from the fruits of his land!
In stark contrast, a rural Annar in the Core may direct his people to ease up on bulk farming and use some of their more comfortable position to assign his people to experiment with crop yields and seed culture... or may order new orchards planted on the best Gumia of his property to allow for personal treats or greater private profits! While Gumaria and Gumenaria may technically plant whatever they want on their land, an Annar may "Recommend" that they consider different crops if it would serve the Annar on the whole better! Annaria often sit on the personal councils of their Sharleev superiors!
Those that have proven themselves loyal and capable are often assigned titles like "Master Of Horses" or "Leev's Personal Kennelmaster" or "Master Of Arms For The Leev" and other such positions. These Annaria, in the inner courts of their direct superiors, are often able to vie for higher political sway, entry into grander social schemes and better education for their children. If an Annar can get a particularly close relationship with his direct superior he might even be able to arrange a marriage between his own son and his Leev's Daughter!
While not TECHNICALLY nobility, The Annar is the lowest stage of society where "social climbing" is at all possible; with the general consensus that if one WANTED to be high enough in the ranks of society to have the opportunity to gain even more notoriety they would at least stick it out for a second term of military service! While perhaps not the most tangible, the most OBVIOUS benefit to being an Annar is control over others!
Being an Annar means that, legally, people answer to you; that they MUST Answer To You!
While no Annar is alone and all Annaria must answer to a superior, they have hundreds beneath them that also must answer to them! They have the ability to carry out the law and to act as judge, jury and possibly executioner on certain factors within their respective jurisdictions. While a Gumenar may be a well accepted, centrally located, responsible bookkeeper for the community who has a lot of trust but no real power... an Annar is an official, legally empowered title that allows one man to have control of no less than (Potentially!) a hundred other men!
It is a benefit, after all, only given out for a considerable time serving the empire!
Cultural Significance
Culturally speaking, Annaria are considered dedicated and loyal figures in almost any culture; trained soldiers with two decades of professional military service under their belts and potentially long careers of official leadership and a reputation for surviving hard fights!
While some in the higher echelons of society may turn their noses up at an Annar in the same way they may spurn a Gumar or Gumenar, it is a rare and truly out of touch demographic that seeks to devalue a man who has given twenty years of their life to The Empire Of Kanda! Moreover, their need to manage funds, oversee lesser citizens and follow the orders of their Leevia make them often seem to many as though they never stepped out of military service in the first place.
Since so many Annaria end up training local militias they are often viewed as soldiers and officers by the common people even if it has been many years since they last saw action... and in 1632 almost all cultures value an aged soldier keeping up his daily drills and managing a force; even if that force is composed of eager boys and jaded old farmers! Since most Annaria are also business starters and the lowest ranks of social climbers they tend to be regarded by other Kandia as a bit ambitious; those that took their second term of service instead of just being happy with a Gume and a family! Some are regarded as a bit eccentric and a rare few even seen as obssessive; their free time and modest resources giving them the ability to delve into subjects others regard as unusual or superfluous.
While some in the higher echelons of society may turn their noses up at an Annar in the same way they may spurn a Gumar or Gumenar, it is a rare and truly out of touch demographic that seeks to devalue a man who has given twenty years of their life to The Empire Of Kanda! Moreover, their need to manage funds, oversee lesser citizens and follow the orders of their Leevia make them often seem to many as though they never stepped out of military service in the first place.
Since so many Annaria end up training local militias they are often viewed as soldiers and officers by the common people even if it has been many years since they last saw action... and in 1632 almost all cultures value an aged soldier keeping up his daily drills and managing a force; even if that force is composed of eager boys and jaded old farmers! Since most Annaria are also business starters and the lowest ranks of social climbers they tend to be regarded by other Kandia as a bit ambitious; those that took their second term of service instead of just being happy with a Gume and a family! Some are regarded as a bit eccentric and a rare few even seen as obssessive; their free time and modest resources giving them the ability to delve into subjects others regard as unusual or superfluous.
Notable Holders
Primus Stasucto, Father Of Ginger Stasucto and Famous Prosernos in the Kandia Core is a notable Annar; having created a wide reaching crafts and art business that is well known across the entirety of The Empire!
While hardly traditional, he PLANS to deed his land and title of Annar to his Daughter Ginger and encouraging his son to serve for his OWN Annar at the edge of the Core.
While hardly traditional, he PLANS to deed his land and title of Annar to his Daughter Ginger and encouraging his son to serve for his OWN Annar at the edge of the Core.
Type
Civic, Citizenship
Status
The Title Of Annar Is As Extremely Common Title In The Empire Of Kanda! EVERY Man That Has Served Twenty Years And Received An Anno As Payment Is An Annar!
Form of Address
Anar
Equates to
An Annar may well be likened to a "Knight" or Lower "Lord" if anyone is.
While perhaps not possessing any great political power above them, they oversee a hundred Gumaria Households and must work alongside other Annaria under their collective Sharleev to make sure that things go according to plan and the status quo remains stable. As Such, Annaria maintain a proper connection to the common folk and often lie as the go-between for the lowest of nobility to know the wills of the people.
While perhaps not possessing any great political power above them, they oversee a hundred Gumaria Households and must work alongside other Annaria under their collective Sharleev to make sure that things go according to plan and the status quo remains stable. As Such, Annaria maintain a proper connection to the common folk and often lie as the go-between for the lowest of nobility to know the wills of the people.
Source of Authority
The Imperial Kensaria Assign And Deed Annaria To The Annar In Question And Maintain Adequate Records Through The Military System. The Military On The Whole, Of Which The Kandar Is The Head, Provides The Property Itself; The Land Being Gained Militarily!
Length of Term
Most Annia are leased to the individual for the course of their natural lifetime and often that of their widowed wife and/or male children until said children serve in the military and receive the opportunity to inherit by way of service.
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