

This service could take the form of virtually anything so long as it benefited the human race in some way. Everyone was born with two names, but a citizen could gain a third name as an honorific as a recognition of public service. Instead, an individual gained social stature, respect, and high office by means of their service to humankind. In the Age of Legends, material wealth had come to mean virtually nothing, as the means existed by which virtually anyone could acquire it.
