Cliobism

Cliobism (from Rudic klioban, 'to cleave') was a social system in eastern Vasarea under the Rudic dynasties based on the distinct treatment of two halves or orders of society. This included both different internal laws and governance, as well as basing the principles of the state on domination and subjugation of the 'superior' order to the 'inferior' as a matter of basic function.

Wretch period
Cliobism was originally the situation produced by the political strategies and means of socialization of the Rudish wretch-houses in the 7th to 9th centuries, where after being admitted as vassals to eastern Vasarean states they rapidly attained disquieting power, and set up a parallel political constituency to the native notability. The original legal formulation of cliobism was essentially legislation that gave exceptions for the wretches themselves, claiming for the wretches separate standards and general superiority.

Though outrageous, in the context of the social patchwork which still presumed the natural immanence of Arta at the time it was neither transgressive nor something to feasibly organize opposition to, especially given the wretches' practical position. Ostentatious domination and separation made a fundament of society came about gradually, as the Rudic state model itself emerged in the jockeying between estates in the 8th to 9th centuries.

Walish period
When in the 9th century various Rudish houses or states based in the Sletts expanded or fled into the east and established formally Rudic regimes known as the Walish Houses, they benefited greatly from cultural cognacy easily admitting them to the wretches' superior order, as well as the inferior order's own independent subordination accepting changes in rulership as a matter of routine. Full-fledged cliobic legal systems and political theories were now enshrined by Walish rulers, in the course of which a sense of the two orders themselves as organic units and components emerged, as well as the notion that the power to 'cleave' was what distinguished the superior order.

However, the idea of independent customs, status, and function for each order was theorized separately, and not always co-present. Practices did broadly converge on cooperation with the Didascalic system, and academies were the typical beneficiaries of cliobism, joining the superior order. At this time, although constitutional language posited domination as an end in itself, the two orders did not divide responsibilities; they were basically societies living in the same way, akin to the preceding days of the more equal form of Pagerian polycentrism, with manorial lords, academics, or peasants existing for both superior and inferior orders.

Pre-Edificial period
From the 12th century the Rudic states under the Wedric Houses were further reformed by the influence of the haven empires and the Tarsian Jangearean Missions. In combination with didascalism, division was now justified by appeals to the enforcement of Arta, specifically that the superior order imposed righteousness through cleaving. Soon, the strengthening of these states and their claims to Artic importance gave a new perspective that state power was separated from being a property of the superior order, and rather the cleaving was identified as the accomplishment of justice, an instrument of rewarding and encouraging virtue. On the other hand, many ideas typical of the Jangerean infusion denounced the partiality of cliobism, and called for the uniform, common application of Arta as Pastism was accustomed to.

Meanwhile, cliobism's practice took a turn towards the separation of the orders' functions. After the reorganization of government and academies in the Tenure reform in Enipid Avelna, streamlined institutions of the superior order increasingly became identified as arms and organs of a more centralized, rationally defined, administration-attuned state. Instruments such as entrepreneurship were established as the exceptions and privileges the superior order enjoyed. At the same time, moves towards weakening cliobism unified law and abolished order-specific practices or rights in favor of uniform concepts and regulations. With all of this, association with the superior order became practically indistinguishable from government and generic political favor, which played a role in miscoloring latering perceptions about the Rudic era.

The revolutionary Instructionist social reforms under the Sede during the Great Upclearing touted the 'formal' abolition of cliobism, but by the 13th century independent superior 'societies' were already greatly weakened. Indeed, the academics' own rise to power could be interpreted as part of the battles resulting from the orders' mingling.

Afterlife
With the triumph of the Sede and Instructionist scholarly government, hereon Vasarean society was ideally to be uniform in its submission to the academy. The idea of an unequal or separating relationship being at the heart of a society was discussed in Edificial political philosophy as 'scission', but cliobism itself was denounced as an anachronism and only recalled or described with some nostalgia in the later stages of the period.