The office of elder

Usage examples of eldership.

Humans would simply have demolished the encampment, raised every Zhirrzh in the mission to Eldership, and taken Pheylan Cavanagh back anyway.

Humans are at a stage comparable to Zhirrzh society before the First Eldership War.

Yet he raised neither of us to Eldership, though with his superior musculature he could have easily done so.

The First Eldership War of a thousand cyclics ago had been sparked by that reluctance: the common Zhirrzh demanding the same right to this postponement of death that their clan and family leaders were already enjoying.

Clans whose suspicion toward outsiders had always been high, who with the carnage and devastation of the Third Eldership War fresh in their minds would have been even less hospitable toward strangers than usual.

Millions of Elders were summarily thrown into the great unknown during the various Eldership Wars.

A highly impressive display, too, with long-range cannon, fighter aircraft, and over twenty of the siege and battle machines that had rolled destruction and death across the battlefields of the three Eldership Wars.

Zhirrzh history, threatening to erode the sense that Eldership is an absolute right that cannot be altered or taken away.

If you allow individual Zhirrzh to refuse Eldership, the inevitable result will be Zhirrzh claiming the right to make that same decision not for themselves, but for others.

But at the very least, any such movement against Eldership would be a serious distraction for the Zhirrzh people.

The last thing we can afford is to have the focal point of a simple, reasonable old female asking for the right to decline Eldership on her own.

Elders and physicals for territory that sparked the Third Eldership War?

Such feuds had once been widespread on Oaccanv, ultimately precipitating the Second Eldership War.

Who had sympathized with her desire to reject Eldership and had promised to take that decision from the hands of the family and clan leaders and to put it instead into hers.

Or a secluded landing area where the Mrachanis could raise everyone aboard to Eldership and dissect the ship at their leisure?