Chrailis - Government
The day to day government of Chrailis is largely accomplished by or through either the Guilds or elected officials.
The actual breakdown looks like this.
Si'Nassasperion - Matron of the City. She is the primary protector and owner of the city. Rarely if ever does she get involved with day to day affairs.
- The Coteries - The 8 original families. While they also rarely get involved, it is believe that they help guide the city long term (in terms of decades, possibly centuries). Their motives or goals are alien and seldom seem to be focused on the common inhabitant. Numbering only in the dozens, each family rarely if ever interacts with anyone other than others of the aristocracy.
- The Great Houses - After the 8 original families, come 29 other family houses. Each of these will owe allegiance to a particular Coterie. If the Coterie's do affect the overall government of Chrailis, it is the Great Houses which act as intermediary between the Coteries and the guilds. There are no minor houses. Every few decades, a new house will form. The process for this happening and who makes up the house is not common knowledge.
- The Guilds and Banks This is the level where day to day affairs, city planning, taxation, and law making occur. Consists of the Banking Triumvirate (Central Bank, River Bank, 4th Tier Bank), the Arcane Guild, and the Alchemist Guild. At this level one will also find the lowest level of the Aristocracy. They are knighted into the houses, yet never part of them by birth. Dame Imokan, one of the elders of the Alchemist Guild, would be one such person. Lord Madamus would be another.
- City Watch, Militias, Rangers The lowest level of government, these more or less represent law enforcement.
Dame Imokan's House Flag
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