The Favored:

The Favored are the shepherds of Everwealth, or so most would claim. Kings, dukes, merchants, magnates, the very people who shape our kingdom’s policies, lines its coffers with tithes and taxes, or command its fearsome arm. Yet their gilded halls often mask rusted morals. Powerful individuals like King Duncan Valmore "The Ram’s Head," are revered and reviled in equal measure. A ruler of unshakable authority, his policies have brought about much positive change despite the shortness of his reign, yet whispers of secret tribunals and the suspicious deaths of dissenting nobles trail him like the scent of a slaughtered stag. Siobhan Traynor, the Timber Queen of Catcher's Rest, who holds the lifeblood of Everwealth’s wood trade in her iron grip, controlling nearly all of it in the region. To her supporters, she is a beacon of commerce; to her critics, a tyrant who bleeds her workers dry to line her pockets with gold Capra coins. The Favored rise not always by birth but often by shrewd cunning, ruthless ambition, or sheer luck. Their positions place them at the helm of the world, but they walk a blade's edge, with one misstep threatening to spill their riches and lives alike.