Diomedean Social Developments

War Of The Wing-Men, IX.

How does the author's reasoning about social developments stack up?

"In many ways, the Drak'honia were closer to the human norm than the Lannachska." (p. 55)

Why?

"Their master-serf culture was a natural consequence of economics..." (ibid.)

So what were their economics?

"...given only neolithic tools, a raft big enough to support several families represented an enormous capital investment." (ibid.)

So why did the Drak'honai make that investment instead of staying with the migratory life-cycle of other Diomedeans? (The answer to this question probably is in the text. I am following through the reasoning again.)

Given life on big rafts:

"It was simply not possible for disgruntled individuals to strike out on their own; they were at the mercy of the State." (ibid.)

OK.

"In such cases, power always concentrated in the hands of aristocratic warriors and intellectual priesthoods; among the Drak'honai, those two classes had merged into one." (pp. 55-56)

In the opening sentence of Chapter I, a single individual bears five titles:

Grand Admiral;

(hereditary) Commander in Chief of the Fleet of Drak'ho;

Fisher of the Western Seas;

Leader in Sacrifice;

Oracle of the Lodestar.

Admiral and Commander are military. 

Leader in Sacrifice and Lodestar are priestly. 

"Fisher" is economic in that raft-dwellers toil to net fish.