The Highborn are one of the Three People of the Kencyrath. They are the leaders and rulers, and only those with Highborn blood can be Shanir.
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| - The Highborn are one of the Three People of the Kencyrath. They are the leaders and rulers, and only those with Highborn blood can be Shanir.
- Highborn was the name of the hereditary leaders of the Ansionian clans and overclans.
- The Imperial Wars of the Highborn were many, and with many tribes and kingdoms did the Highborn wage war. But the greatest war in all of Haddashall's was the two great nation's fight for supremacy, the nations of Highborn and Duilían.
- Should a Highborn fail in his responsibility to the forest, it is not unheard of for him to cede his position. Leaving his great hall, he departs the safe paths of the forest and travels to where the dark pathways twist in upon themselves and malicious spirits dart between the trees. There, the noble seeks atonement and forgiveness from the spirit of Athel Loren. Some are not seen again save in dreams and memories. Others return, within a few hours of their departure, unnaturally aged, as though many decades had passed. A very few return after many years, reinvigorated and filled with purpose by their communion with the forest.[1a]
- Highborn are a breed apart from those they rule. Many Imperial noble houses span the stars in an intricate web of kinship, marriage and political alliances that ensure their power and influence go on, even if the fortunes of a single world fail. Products of careful breeding and cultured refinement over Terran centuries (or even millennia), the lineage they hold in their blood is the history of the Imperium of Man itself and they are the finest that humanity has to offer -- or so they would have others believe, at any rate. Nobility of birth has never been a guarantee of character, unfortunately, because for every example of true enlightenment or greatness, there are dozens of capricious and self-obsessed men and women who prove, by their base failings, that measuring superiority by birth a
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| - [The Three-Faced God] chose three races from different threshold worlds to be his champions and forged them into the Kencyrath. The original Kencyr—renamed the Highborn—became the leaders of this new people. They were quick-witted and proud, blessed with an unusually close relationship with their god. Those especially affected were called the Shanir. These individuals possessed strange powers and had a tendency to go mad.
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| - The Highborn are one of the Three People of the Kencyrath. They are the leaders and rulers, and only those with Highborn blood can be Shanir.
- Highborn was the name of the hereditary leaders of the Ansionian clans and overclans.
- The Imperial Wars of the Highborn were many, and with many tribes and kingdoms did the Highborn wage war. But the greatest war in all of Haddashall's was the two great nation's fight for supremacy, the nations of Highborn and Duilían.
- Highborn are a breed apart from those they rule. Many Imperial noble houses span the stars in an intricate web of kinship, marriage and political alliances that ensure their power and influence go on, even if the fortunes of a single world fail. Products of careful breeding and cultured refinement over Terran centuries (or even millennia), the lineage they hold in their blood is the history of the Imperium of Man itself and they are the finest that humanity has to offer -- or so they would have others believe, at any rate. Nobility of birth has never been a guarantee of character, unfortunately, because for every example of true enlightenment or greatness, there are dozens of capricious and self-obsessed men and women who prove, by their base failings, that measuring superiority by birth alone in the Imperium is a lie. Worse still than the dissolute idlers and petty tyrants, are those whose dark inclinations spill over into heresy and true malignancy, often for no better reason than boredom or a sadistic love of power. It is this last, supremely dangerous group, that the Inquisition watches for, and combating such powerful and well-resourced Heretics is one reason the Ordos draw from the nobility's own ranks to find some of their servants. From almost their first breath, those born to the high Imperial nobility are schooled in the role they must play and how they must play it. Their fine education covers not only the ins and outs of history, commerce and power-politics, but an education in the fine-points of taste and etiquette: how to wear a mask of one's own choosing, how to give an intended slight, how to curry and mete out favour, the defence of honour and how to comport oneself in all situations are all lessons deeply ingrained. In some great families, these arts have darker nuances yet; the correct use of poison, a well-executed betrayal and the employment of assassins, all being among them. Connected, socially-skilled, highly-educated and able to move in the high circles of Imperial society, those of noble blood are frequently as ruthless as they are charming and as dangerous as they are well-mannered, making for skilled infiltrators and subtle Acolytes of the Inquisition.
- Should a Highborn fail in his responsibility to the forest, it is not unheard of for him to cede his position. Leaving his great hall, he departs the safe paths of the forest and travels to where the dark pathways twist in upon themselves and malicious spirits dart between the trees. There, the noble seeks atonement and forgiveness from the spirit of Athel Loren. Some are not seen again save in dreams and memories. Others return, within a few hours of their departure, unnaturally aged, as though many decades had passed. A very few return after many years, reinvigorated and filled with purpose by their communion with the forest.[1a]
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