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The Vedens love ostentatious greenery,{{book ref|sa3|100}} they decorate gardens with cultivated vines and rows of shalebark. These plants are all cut and trimmed into shapes. Manors are built after the Veden ideal, tall, imposing, solitary, strong and towering. They are often built of square blocks and contain small windows, with the walls being dappled by dark lichen. Some people call these solitary estates the soul of Jah Keved. These estates are generally made up of a nice manor, a separate servants’ building, a guardhouse and a garden.{{book ref|sa2|27}}{{book ref|sa2|73}} The manors often have large dining halls for feasts, these halls have numerous tables, with a the most important one called the high table.{{book ref|sa2|39}} The isolated estates of Jah Keved lack most of the more recent discoveries in architecture like storm cisterns.{{book ref|sa2|40}} The current horticultural fashion is a number of rare plants in a jumble. Buildings are very close to the Alethi architectural styles, but often have plants draping and falling from windows.{{book ref|sa3|100}}
Some books tell of the soul of Jah Keved; isolated estates where each brightlord rules independently.{{book ref|sa2|27}} There are also many hamlets, ruled by lesser brightlords. Lighteyes host feasts to display power, often to lesser lords. Daughters are expected to help with the family finances. {{book ref|sa2|39}} All [[soulcaster]]s belong to the king, who allows ardents to use them.{{book ref|sa2|73}}▼
Lesser non landholding lighteyes.{{book ref|sa2|45}} Hamlet lords{{book ref|sa2|39}} —- 10 Lords of similar rank (Davar){{book ref|sa2|45}} — Highprince.{{book ref|sa2|39}}▼
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=== Monarchy ===
==== Monarch ====
The Vedens have a long history of monarchies. The Monarchy, while powerful, is not autocratic.
The monarchy's power over the highprinces
▲Some books tell of the soul of Jah Keved; isolated estates where each brightlord rules independently.{{book ref|sa2|27}} There are also many hamlets, ruled by lesser brightlords. Lighteyes host feasts to display power, often to lesser lords. Daughters are expected to help with the family finances. {{book ref|sa2|39}} All [[soulcaster]]s belong to the king, who allows ardents to use them.{{book ref|sa2|73}}
▲The monarchy's power over the highprinces, however limited, is primarily maintained through military strength and access to soulcasters, which he taxes highprinces for their rights to use.{{book ref|sa1|15}} In part due to the limited power of the king, many people feel more connection and loyalty to their highprince or local lord than they do to the king themself, or to the institution of the monarchy.{{book ref|sa1|24}}
▲Lesser non landholding lighteyes.{{book ref|sa2|45}} Hamlet lords{{book ref|sa2|39}} —- 10 Lords of similar rank (Davar){{book ref|sa2|45}} — Highprince.{{book ref|sa2|39}}
==== Rules of Succesion ====
=== Princedoms ===
Even though Jah Keved has a monarchy, it is divided into a number of princedoms, each ruled by a [[lighteyes|lighteyed]] [[highprince]]. These princedoms essentially act as independent kingdoms, with the highprince as their king, the Veden monarchy being mostly ceremonial. Each of the princedoms is named after the family controlling it,
Each of these princedoms also has its own military, largely independent of one another. The highprinces often squabble and fight each other, trying to claim land from the other princedoms for themselves.{{book ref|sa3|100}}
==== Highprinces ====
The rulers of these Veden princedoms are called highprinces. They essentially function as the leaders of sovereign nations, rather then
Prior to the Veden civil war, known Veden Highprinces were [[Valam]], [[Abrial]], [[Boriar]], [[Evinor]] and [[Jal Mala]]. Some of the highprinces died during the civil war however, and newly crowned [[Taravangian]] appointed two new highprinces to replace the ones lost. The two men are brothers, the elder of which is named Nan [[Urian]].{{book ref|sa3|107}}
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