Stewards

A Steward stands beside a public tribunal corridor.

Stewards are a recent form of House construct labor. Public notices describe a violent offender serving a penal sentence and, after death, being made into a Steward. The notices emphasize attacks on House staff and infrastructure.

The sentence and its resulting construct are often discussed through this official account. Families sometimes dispute the charges. Hearings and the construction process are seldom open to public inspection, leaving most residents dependent on what the notices say.

Warforged and legal personhood

Warforged are free people under the Treaty of Thronehold. They work for Houses, independent businesses, and communities, or pursue lives outside those institutions. Their crafted bodies and history of military service do not place them in the category of Steward labor.

Part of a larger argument

House punishment powers are already part of Sharn's public conversation. The coming Public Safety and Continuity Act would extend authority over proprietary magic and disruptions to licensed services. Its supporters emphasize safety; opponents question how far its wording reaches.

For residents whose knowledge comes from public notices, Stewards sit within that uneasy relationship between useful House services, punishment, and institutions that are difficult to examine from outside.

Organized opposition

The Voice opposes the program on the grounds that a sentence cannot turn the worth of a sentient life into a corporate asset. Its Seeker roots have widened into a network of several faiths and none. Cells differ over tactics and over what the official account leaves unexplained.

The Unclaimed challenges confusion between free warforged and Steward labor, while the Landing Compact supports families and contests the employment, housing, and service pressures surrounding disputed cases. None represents every opponent of House punishment powers.