Slavery

Slavery is a practice that allows individuals to possess other individuals as property. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase, or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand wages.

Legal Status
Slavery has different legal status across Skylessia, with different nations having different attitudes towards the practice.

Alimond
Slavery enjoys legal status in Alimond. The nation employs a penal system that allows for criminals to be temporarily enslaved to the state as a legal sentence in the form of correctional labor rehabilitation. Prisoners of war may also be forced into slavery. Aside from this, however, slavery in its other forms is discouraged in Alimond due to the pragmatic mentality of the Alimond people. Sexual slavery, although relatively uncommon, is popular amongst the upper echelons due to their acceptance of polygamy, although they are generally kept out of public knowledge. Human trafficking is not a major issue in Alimond.

Azgarth
Slavery in Azgarth is practiced in a much more different way compared to the other nations of Skylessia. It has legal status in Azgarth, but the majority of slaves are morphs created for a specific purpose by their masters. Furthermore, most of all human slaves and indentured workers in Azgarth, few in number to begin with, commit themselves to a master willfully; this is an especially common practice amongst the financially-challenged of the nation who wish to serve a more powerful family in hopes of learning their magic and potentially gaining status. Most Azgarthi masters consider slaves as domestic servants, and treatment of such individuals are generally much better than anywhere else in Skylessia.

Marcellus
Marcellus has a blanket ban on slavery, with laws enacted to protected the rights of individuals in the country. However, many have taken to using the legal loophole of classifying their slaves as indentured workers, which comes with the insinuation that the individual is legally working off a financial debt. Although not legally considered as property, "indentured workers" have little to no legal protection, and are effectively treated as slaves by their masters. Slavery, alongside human trafficking, has become a major legal problem in Marcellus, with active but inefficient attempts by the government to stop the slave trade.

The Wilds
As it has no form of legal system or constitution, not being an actual sovereign state, the Wilds has no form of legal protection over its inhabitants, and slavery is not only rampant, but an easily accepted practice symbolizing one's power over another. Labor slaves are as common as pleasure slaves, especially under the faction of Delaney the Brutal.