Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170525022250

This post will mainly be on the culture inside a legion and relating things.

A Legion is not only it's own self functioning it is also it's own self functioning society and fief. Within a Legions fief can fall many worlds and millions if not billions of inhabitants. For most of these inhabitants they have very few choices they being join or be forced to join the Legions or serve the legions directly or do jobs within the fief the legion deems below themselves (Merchants, clerks, ect). In this society the legionaries are seen as the noble elite and the natives as mere servants (Think the Spartans with the helots)

The natives of the fief are split into tow overarching groups of people, the 'freemen' and the servants or 'cacula' (I'm going to focus on Cacula as they are far more interesting and important to the legions). Cacula are in two forms hereditary slaves (High Cacula) and those either captured by the Legion or those charged with minor crimes (Lower Cacula). The High Cacula are seen as higher slaves and more like domestic servants they are also the overseers of the other gangs of Cacula.

Each Legion fief is home to many millions of Cacula doing many, many, many different forms of work some lofty like 'Grand Cacula of the Library' to 'Dish Washer'.

Each Legionary is given a small group of Cacula to attend to his needs upon enlistment and as a Legionary moves up the ranks this group grows ever larger. Upon 20 years of service a Legionary receives his own personal plot of land and around 200 to 300 Cacula (From these Cacula he appoints a Steward to attend to his fief when duty calls) once again as the Legionary moves up the ranks his personal fief grows larger alongside the number of Cacula under his banner.

Legions as a whole are stationed in what are known as 'Legion Keeps' which can be described as massive fortress monasteries the size of large cities. It is from here that the Legion's day to day affairs are run and it's most important weapons and relics held. Now the whole legion is not stationed inside the keep instead each Cohort (Save the 1st) is given a 'fortress' which is like the keep but on a smaller scale. Small post do exist but they are normally only occupied by a company of legionaries (around 100)

Within the inner sanctums of the Keep/fortress take place the many countless rituals of the legion. Inside the Keep can be found many important chambers, the most important being:

The Chamber of Heroes:

A massive chamber dedicated to the fallen legionaries, Inside this chamber are many statues of honored heroes and upon it's walls the names of every fallen legionaries are written.

The Wall of Woes:

A wall behind inside the throne room upon which every crime commit against the legion is written (And crossed out once avenged)

Cathedral:

The Legions are a highly religious order with each Keep having a massive Cathedral built inside it's halls. It is in here that the Legionaries pray for grace in battle and mercy in death.

Legions also have dedicated priests known as Actarius who are both divine mediums and also powerful warriors. The Legionary priests are known to have their helms built in the shape of death masks. 