[SteelsSweets]

Zarissa Mistari enters the library and takes a moment to survey the area. With a small nod to herself, she makes sure her whip is secured safely coiled at her hip and her hair is still tightly wound in a bun before approaching the nearest librarian for assistance.

She speaks softly out of respect for the institution but still with a sense of authority and expectation of aid.

She asks for information on nobility of the region. Specifically, what are the most common paths to becoming recognized nobility, does the region have a writing on such? If not, information on how current noble houses came to be recognized.

[Rainman]

Miss Arabelle Nelson who has recently been appointed to the Conch section of the library and apprentice to Albert Pendragon ( junior ), advises that obtaining nobility is generally done by birth right. It has been known that the Empire would and can reward titles to those in service to the empire and have done a great deed that has changed or improved the the standing of the Empire in the region.

Those that have received a title this way have been merchants, adventurers and those in service of the Empire's military, to name a few.