I don't want to break the game! - I just think everything goes towards nobles becoming more noble, with no mechanism to radically diminish this. I agree we should look to being part of a realm, I just feel there should be facility for a family to be stripped of rank and have a wholesale fall from grace. I also thought it could really spice up the adventurer class and make adventurers more valuable to a realm.
Maybe I''m making things too complex. Sorry