Also, doesn't having a commoner declared a noble and your heir circumvent the 1 noble rule?
Obviously not, because there is no "1 noble rule"—there's a game-mechanic restriction preventing you from actually having more than one active noble on a continent.
She was declared a noble and Ranias Heir. Several other nobles participated. Not just her daughter.
Then that was probably going a little far, and if I'd known about it, I would have advised JeVondair against it.
But it's hardly an egregious violation of any rule.
Treating a commoner as if they were a noble—particularly in the specific circumstances that pertained to Stheno—may technically violate the RP guidelines for commoners, but declaring and treating a noble as if they were a commoner is a much more serious violation. The former merely creates the possibility for certain kinds of inconsistency and frustration, while the latter is not only something that cannot, in BattleMaster's world, ever happen (not since we did away with the "question nobility" option over a decade ago), its purpose is to exclude and cut off a player character. If someone has done something bad enough that a realm would ever agree to consider them no longer a noble, the correct course of action would simply be to ban them.
I hope this clarifies why I would treat this case very differently if Zebidiah genuinely was being declared and treated as no longer a noble.
