Or, a simple...

creating a clear class division between the Patricians, or aristocrats, and the Plebians, or commoners and farmers.

Compared to us No-Star plebeians, he's a super-elite who's a whole three ranks above us!

Meanwhile, my very capable steward sees to the needs of the smallfolk and ensures that my hold runs smoothly.

The common folk used hens, perhaps. Nobles augured from peacocks.

Yet did you know his fortunes soured? He himself became an outcast, impoverished. Iris' family, a powerful house, could not accept this, would not marry their daughter to a nobody.