Editing Gethin (section)

== Society ==
Gethin society is stratified with unusual literalness. While the Thronelords and their allies dwell in the seats above, the population of the surface is left to scavenge and to toil.

Outside the taxed and garrisoned population entirely stand several classes of self-sufficient folk, whom the crown neither provisions nor protects and from whom it takes nothing:

{| class="wikitable"
! Term !! Description
|-
| '''Fendril''' || Those who fend for themselves; untaxed, unguarded, owed nothing by the lords
|-
| '''Tarnmen''' || Coastal and lakeside villagers who severed their dependence on the [[wain]]s
|-
| '''Soilmen''' || Agricultural folk beyond the reach of manorial obligation
|-
| '''Feldirs''' || Field-dwellers of the open country
|-
| '''Woadfolk''' || Inland tribal populations of ancient settlement
|-
| '''Brinfolk''' || Salt-country and estuary people
|}

The rebellion at [[Zarune's Mouth]] demonstrated the strategic cost of this arrangement: an enemy given shelter and ships by people the crown had written out of its accounts.