Peasant

Peasants are defined as those without citizenship papers. One becomes a peasant one of three ways. The first is by blood, in that one's mother was a peasant. The second is to be stripped of title, often as a result of grave misdeeds by nobility. The third is to take up exile in the Shadow District, also usually because of grave misdeeds. Because of the peasant's lack of citizenship, they have no rights under Fastheld law. This has led most to band together in the Shadow District. While many work trades in hopes of being raised into vassaldom, the majority tend to dip heavily into darker trades. Though having extremely difficult lives, the peasant class hovers at about fifty thousand.