Paravail

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(n., adj., traditional)

The lowest individual on the feudal ladder; the subject who “lives off the land.” (Literally, he who avails himself of it.) Customarily, the paravail is a tenant or low vassal who feeds on the local population on the street while higher vassals and Regents feed on vessels brought to them through more civil means, or on herds. In practice, whatever Kindred is at the bottom of a particular chain of bonds (q.v.) may be fairly said to be a paravail, even if he is a Regent. “Regent Carlyle’s a paravail monster, but he’s not some filthy gutter trash.”