Slavery

Slavery is not an uncommon institution in the Genosian world, but it has been largely replaced by serfdom. It is totally illegal to enslave Genosians except under very specific circumstances, but the rules for enslaving foreigners, infidels and heretics are much looser.
Particularly in the coastal parts of the Kaselreich, in Illegon, Iber, and parts of the North like Ruscovy, Osterbija and Valak, slavery is reasonably common. Kalmacia relies significantly on slaves for its agricultural yield, but this has caused tensions with their Dacian neighbors recently.
Obviously the Helian Empire basically runs off of slaves.
In Karthack, Kurtiye and Berkhuka (and Jenoesa, for that matter) slavery is fairly ubiquitous, and there are fewer restrictions on the practice. In Karthack, it is in fact quite common for young sorcerers to sell themselves into slavery for a predetermined period to more established men of their class, to gain experience and contacts for later life.
In most of the Genosian and Dessian world, slaves are afforded some protections by the law, with the only real exceptions being Kedoua and Ruscovy, where masters have total power of life and death over their slaves.
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