Who Are The Nobles?
Nobles can be: • Royal relatives • Descendants of past Kings or rulers • The warrior class of the tribe or culture • All members of a ruling tribe or culture, ruling over a conquered people • Leaders given grants and titles by the King in return for submission and service • Royal servitors granted titles of nobility as reward • Landowners or officials who must assume governmental and military powers to defend their communities## [## Note: The latter type of nobility is a good possibility in a post-apocalyptic type of world. Those people who have the resources to support communities of survivors will be flocked to and become leaders by default, and they will have to find ways to defend themselves and their dependents from others. Check out Poul Anderson’s “No Truce With Kings” for an example of this. Also possible in a post-apocalyptic scenario are government officials or law enforcement officers who find themselves looked up to as protectors of the community when the system dissolved.
