Bukkit

The kingdom is the political structure in the plugin. The managment is a little more complex then for the settlements. The king is the owner of the kingdom. He is also the owner of the main kingdom area (LEHEN_4). The kingdoms can only be created by admin or OP.

The historical concept is : give land for loyalty to the noble. The noble have to fight for the king and protect the land and the citizens.

The concept is the same as in settlements. The kingdom hold a list of member objects. But in a kingdom are multiple objects

• member , are the joined owner , can have settlements and lehen
• lehen are the the areas, the land of the kingdom
• settlements are the areas of none noble members and can join the kingdom or incorporated due to the owner

Each member has a NOBLE_LEVEL from 0 to 4 with 1 as lowest and 4 as highest rank

• rank0 , COMMONER, are not a noble.
• rank1 , KNIGHT, for lehen1
• rank2, EARL , for lehen2
• rank3 , LORD, for lehen3
• rank4 , KING , for lehen4

The owner get his rank from the lehen he owns. Each owner can have multiple lehen.

The lehen build a loyalty tree

• lehen
  • lehen(lower rank) or
  • settlements

In a kingdom only the king can build new lehen. Later he can give lehen_contarct to his member to create new lehen.

• The king create new lehen and give it to the owner
• A owner can build a lehen in kingdom 0
• A owner can join to the kingdom.and all his lehen and settle are incorporated into the lkingdom
• A NPC lehen can join to the kingdom
• A lehen or settlement joins to the kingdom has the king as LORD
• The owner can give his loyalty (follow) a other LORD of the same kingdom, when the rank of the LORD is higher as his own.
• The king can give each lehen of his kingdom to a new owner
• The king can not change the owner of a settlement
• The king get tax from his liege (lehen and settlement)

A owner can release his old kingdom and go to kingdom 0. Then he can join to the new kingdom.

• This is a loyalty break and normally you are a enemy for the old kingdom.
• The owner* give the reference and link to the kingdom
• All your lehen and settlement leaving the kingdom
• Not your liege lehen, go with you ! (liege are the lehen with lower rank loyalty to you)
• The liege lehen go to the kingdom, except the lehen you are the owner

Kingdom 0

This kingdom is always prenst in will be automaticly created. The kingdom hold all settlements and lehen, they are not joined to a kingdom. The name is "Freie Siedler" means "Free Settler" or "Independant Settler".

• The kingdom 0 is necessary for change the kingdom.
• The kingdom 0 has no king and no tax.
• The Kingdom 0 has no support or assistance