Sline
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Sline, a contraction of "baseline", refers to those who have not attended a concent; the uneducated.
Fraa Erasmas was collected from a sline family at the age of eight years.
While sline describes a particular socio-economic class on Arbre, upward mobility is possible, as Erasmus's sib Cord is an artisan at the time of Apert. Those without special education, skills, or aspirations to such.
During Apert, the avout of the Concent of Saunt Edhar found slines easy to identify by their posture, outlandish fashions and apparent pride in the lack of education.
