In Enayra, the issues of sexuality and gender identity are not an issue. Most people don’t care how you identify or who you choose to love, so long as you are able to contribute to society, pay your taxes, and participate in the citizen levies for war when required.

It should also be noted that preference is not given to men when it comes to citizen levies or regular enrollment. Levied conscription is predetermined based on local census data.

All able-bodied citizens (regardless of gender) within a settlement, who are fit for service, and are within the appropriate age range, are conscripted as part of the citizen levies.

Each settlement is required to fill a predetermined quota of levies to ensure no major disruption in labour, population distribution, and to also ensure reserves are still available for any secondary levies during a prolonged campaign abroad.

For regular volunteered enrollment, while men tend to gravitate towards voluntary military enrollment more than women in some of the nations of Enayra, women are equally welcome among the ranks of all armies.

Indeed, women make up as little as third of all forces in Altimaran, to as large as half of all forces in Asardaea.

When it comes to military leadership, women make up at east half of all officer positions in Danaen, Espias and Utova. They are closer to a quarter of the officers in Altimara, and three quarters in Asaradaea.

In Altimara, Estion, and Danaen nobility are still expected to attempt to produce at least one heir, though are not required to marry or even be amicable with the other parent of their heir.

In recent centuries adoption has become more and more common in these kingdoms and is an acceoted and legal way to produce an heir without “producing” an heir.

Some of the more traditional families view it as the breaking of a bloodline, though no one is willing to challenge the Crown on this law.

Some nobles get around the “bloodline” issue by adopting nieces, nephews and distant cousins, allowing them to remain close or sometimes with their birth families, but ensuring that by adopting them, at least if even on paper, they have a blood related heir who can legally inherit their lands and titles.

In Asaradaea and Espias, nobility in same-sex or asexual relationships are not required to produce an heir by blood either by law or by culture.  Adopted heirs and children, regardless of whether they are blood related or not, are considered just as legitimate as traditional begotten heirs.

Family names (gentes in Classical Asaradaean, myōji in Traditional Espian) and ability are more important that passing on a bloodline.

When it comes to race in Enayra, skin colour does not usually play a part in determining your race. In Enayra, your race is determined by the country of your birth. A black Asardaean is just as Asardaean as a white Asardaean.

While certain nations have a higher concentration of one ethnicity over another, the ethnicities of Enayra are spread out across the land, and can be found in all countries, in all positions and statuses in society.

People who, in our world’s terms, would be considered Black Africans or African-American can be found in higher concentrations in Danaen, a majority black kingdom. They are known as Danaesh in Enayra.

People who we would call Asian, though specifically Japanese in the case of Enayra, are found mainly in Espias (a name they took from the land when they arrived) and are called Espian in Enayra.

The racial mixing in Altimara is higher. All peoples in Altimara descend from the original pre-unification Qiri’aran tribes. Though it is important to note that the Xiarans and Altimarans have a higher concentration of admixture from non-Qiri’aran peoples due to their great prominence the global politics and the large influx of refugees and immigrants from other nations after the collapse of the Asardaean Empire.

The Qiri’arans of today retain much of their original genetic and ethnic make-up and would be closer to what we consider Arabic and Indian (from the subcontinent in Asia).

While both the majority of native peoples in Estion and Asardaea would be considered white by our standards, their differences are more nuanced.

Estian people can be more closely equated with Northern Europeans (Germans, French, English, etc) while Asardaea is more closely paralleled to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, North Africa etc.) with immediate comparisons being closest to Ancient Rome/Byzantine Greece.