All the Power Pt 3 A procession and a punishment
For thirty days per year, each of the forty-eight Subject Kingdoms and twelve Imperial Provinces must send twelve individuals to perform the Term of Sacred Service. These individuals must be distinguished or highborn, or preferably both. During the Term, they would act as His Supremacy’s personal servants - running errands, fetching concubines, and performing other tasks. They were usually referred to as term servants. His Supremacy had sixty term servants at any given time. Each month, a...