Allegiance

Four banners, one oath.

Allegiance is the political layer the way faith is the spiritual one. You swear to one crown, your standing is earned by deeds, and where you stand matters: aligned ground is friendlier, opposed ground is not.

The banners. Caer Vaneth holds the passes of Auldmere. Thornhold keeps Karan's roads, and keeps them by carrying out the sentence for making them unsafe. Sunhaven is the third of the lawful three. The Old King's Banner is the fourth, and it is not one of them.

Swearing. swear <banner> takes the oath, allegiance (or banner) shows where you stand, and forswear breaks it. Breaking an oath marks you a turncoat for a week of real time, and doubled if you cross to a banner your own is opposed to, so the choice is meant to cost something.

Rank. Eight of them, from Sworn up through Guard of the Seal to Voice of the Crown, each with a standing floor. Standing comes from deeds and from missions; from Guard of the Seal onward the missions are group work with others of your kingdom. Your insignia is worn, and it is read by everyone who sees you.

The crown's work. Standing opens a rank; a MISSION walks you through it. Each crown keeps an envoy for the sworn at its seat, and the envoys give the chain quests that the .9 finishers complete through allegiance mission; from rank four the finishers are group missions into the raid seats whose canon carries your kingdom's arc, and the crown surveys (the charts of the deep and the ice) come rank by rank the same way. help kingdom missions has the four arcs. allegiance tithe <gold> at the seat buys standing with diminishing daily returns.

What is coming. The banners are the political layer the sieges will ride: city and zone sieges fought under the four crowns, with the sworn of a kingdom standing together, are the next season's work (v1.5), and the standing you build now is the standing you will bring to them.

Syntax

allegiance
swear 
forswear
banner

Examples

allegiance
swear thornhold