How does our law enforcement system work?
Do we have courts which decide who become half-exiles?
Do we have town guards or full police?
Are the Blackbirds our FBI?
Is the King in the chief executive of the Police and head justice of the Courts?
Primarily community policing. So if there is an issue you go to your clan head or local occupational association leader (or the matter gets brought to their attention because its really obvious, like a public fight or murder with a body but no witnesses), who acts as judge and assesses penalties and corrective action. For more serious matters with semi-permanent punishments like half-exile you usually have to go at least up to the level of village chief. Outside the cities guards tend to be the local warriors as they are more concerned with outsiders , while inside the cities the cities there are local warriors attached to the leadership but more frequently you just have the largest members of the artisans acting as enforcers for their leaders.
The Blackbirds are like a combination of FBI, KGB, and Army Rangers. Their training is more about stealth and assassination, but eavesdropping on internal issues is also within their wheelhouse.
The king is the chief executive, a key legislator with ultimate veto power, and the supreme court (literally, you can theoretically appeal any decision all the way up to the king, although whether or not you
should is another question, as it is fully within his rights to levy fines for wasting everyone's time with a frivolous appeal).
what clothes do our elites wear? Do they use bare skin with alot of gold, silver and gemstones or mostly multi layered clothing of various colours and extensive embroidery? Or a mixture of both? What about hairstyles? How elaborate are they, and do they include jewellery and goldwork?
Oh and do we use belts, are they elaborate, and do they have social/ritualistic significane.
And lastly, what kind of foot wear do we use?
They tend to wear additional layers of jackets, vests, and sashes on top of the standard tunic and kilt of most of the People, with considerably more colour, in both volume and variety of dyes used. Badges of various metals and precious or semi-precious stones signifying rank, station, and personal accomplishment are common. While this can be enough medals to make a Banana Republic president nod in approval, it can also include ritual headgear with sacred objects like specially treated crow or eagle feathers, or even certain designs on their clothes. Men and women tend to wear elaborately braided hair held together with bands of intricately gold, silver, and copper, and men typically extend this to their beards as well. Bleaching and dying hair in fantastical colours is also a common method of showing off wealth and status. Belts are pretty much the only way to hold clothes up and are fairly common among all classes, with the elite strata frequently having large and prominent buckles. Footwear depends a lot on climate, but is pretty much all leather and can be everything from boots to sandals.
