Editing Allegiance (section)

===Vassals, Patrons and Monarchs===
''See also: [[Allegiance Rank]]''

In Asheron's Call, a vassal swears allegiance ([[Loyalty]]) to you, making you their Patron.  This bond helps you build [[Rank]], and generates [[XP Passup]] for you.  In return, it is common for you to provide [[Loot]] and other assistance to aid them in their character advancement.

Like vassals, the patron can also swear allegiance to another patron, and the vassal may acquire vassals of his or her own. All of a patron's vassals, and their vassals, and so on, are known collectively as that patron's followers. As vassals become patrons, they in turn rise in [[Allegiance Rank]].

Monarchs are the leader, and highest [[Rank]]ing officer, of an [[Allegiance]].

====Loyalty and Leadership====
''See also: [[XP Passup]]''

Vassals automatically pass experience points up to their patrons. These experience points are not taken from the vassal's earned total, buy are extra points generated especially for the patron. Each patron passes points up to his or her patron in, on up to the monarch. How much experience a patron receives from each vassal depends upon the patron's [[Leadership]] skill and the vassal's [[Loyalty]] skill. The higher these skills are, the more experience is gained by the patron. For this reason, player characters with high Loyalty are highly prized as potential vassals. The number of experience points passed up from vassal to patron also increases with the amount of time the vassal has been in the allegiance.

====Experience Chains====
Experience Chains, or XP Chains for short, used to be common in many allegiances. Instead of an "Experience Tree" as was originally intended, the Allegiance vassals would pledge to one patron, who would pledge to another, and on up the "chain" in the manner that there was one vassal to a patron who was one vassal to their patron.

It was a method for many allegiance members to gain experience points far faster than originally intended, and eventually, a patch was made to nerf XP chains by limiting how many vassals and sub-vassals a patron could get experience points from.