#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -there are also local councils whose decisions have to be honored -so old guard nobles, if they've retained their titles, get constantly harassed by both their "superiors" provincial (governors) and their "inferiors/subjects" (councils) and all of them are commoners lmao
#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -who really holds power is the governors of the /provinces/ and byleth ensures those people are always loyal to them and the central gov't; many are commoner graduates of the reopened officer's academy
#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -no more title hierarchies for rulers of territories like duke/count/margrave, they're all just territories and lords -the lords of each /territory/ are usually local nobles or their relatives but their powers are now extremely restricted
#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -garreg mach monastery and officer's academy is still there but officer's academy has separate gov't controlled administration instead of being ran by the church -officer's academy also has campuses in each provincial capital
#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -zanado is developed as a new national capital, capital moves from derdriu to there about 20 years into the eisner regime -specifically there's "old zanado" and "new zanado" districts, former is historical site and latter is where all the gov't buildings are
#fe3h#slobuilding#wstw -special autonomous zones designated for cultural and economic reasons and to protect them from hostility of other nearby territories