*SPOILERS the following explanations will touch upon numerous future plot points as the system will be slowly explained as the story progresses. Read at your own risk.*
Battle Harems - created by the wish of Leonidas Reisen Dominii to safeguard his wives from assassination and disease after completing his mission as a transmigrator. The system allows for the passing of "Stats" the numerical representation of power among individuals.
Dominant - Owner of the Harem
Submissive - Members of the Harem
Dominants pass part of their strengths to their Submissives, the Submissives on the other hand define a percentage of strength they wish to offer to their Dominant. The system allows for both the Dominant as well as the harem to grow in strength together.
Treatment of Submissives - The empire does not interfere with how Submissives are treated, their treatment can range from official spouses, adored lovers, or mistreated slaves. A mistreated Submissive is expected to raise their own Dominant rank to forcefully break the Link. (NTR is permissible under strict guidelines)
Abandonment - should the Dominant kick the Submissive out of the harem for whatever reason, the strength offered by the Submissive will remain with the Dominant. This leads to sudden degradation of health for Submissives that are abandoned.
Thus, even with adoration, the empire advises Submissives to never perform offerings above the Affectionate rank. It should be noted that once an Enslaved Submissive is evicted from a harem, he or she will immediately die. While Captive and Junkie ranks normally are no longer able to function in society and also perish albeit last a little longer.
Offering Ranks=
100% - Enslaved
>90% -Captive
>75% - Junkie
>50% - Affectionate
>25% - Servant
>10% - Follower
Each entity has a Dominant rank, this rank determines whom the person can dominate. The higher the rank the harder it is to control, and fewer people can dominate you. But it also directly affects the pool of potential Submissives a Dominator has.
Freedom to love - Harems are not restricted by age, gender, race, belief, or affiliations.
Domination Limit
Each dominant has a control limit, every time he or she dominates a being, a Dominator must adjust how much Domination he/she will use to maintain the Link.
The higher the limit used the stronger the stats and abilities passed from the Dominator to the Submissive. The stronger the Submissive the greater the percentage returned to the Dominator.
Higher ranks will unlock better skills and abilities, The domination Link once given cannot be removed until the submissive dies or the Dominant ejects the Submissive from the harem.
Battle Harem Domination Ranks
>50% - Everlasting
>30% - Empress | Emperor (AKA Overlord Ranks)
>20% - Queen | King (AKA - Lord Ranks)
>10% - Wife | Husband (AKA Spouse Ranks)
>5% - Paramour
>1% - Devoted
>0.05% - Admirer
>0.02% - Dog
<0.02% - Toy
Netorare
The only drawback of the Domination limit is Netorare (NTR), this is the act of forcefully hijacking the Link between a Dominant and a Submissive to steal the Submissive as one's own.
NTRd Submissives may leave the NTR Dominant, but the Domination Link lost cannot be returned to the original Dominant. Thus, it is not normal for a Dominant to have Spouse ranks in fear of the Submissive betraying them for a new Dominant or a Higher ranked Dominant purposely hunting them for their Links.
The Valorious Kingdom outlawed NTR and Rape, and violators are stripped of all rights and are given the title [Ugly Bastard]. People with the title of [Ugly Bastard] are forced to make Junkie rank offerings and forcefully abandoned. They are also biologically castrated and striped and are forced to mine ore in the nude for their entire lifetimes.
Dominant Rank is determined by genetics, outlook, strength of will, and resistance to failure each comprising a fourth of the possibility.
Expansion of the Battle Harem - It is a perfectly acceptable practice for Submissives to start their own battle harems once they gain sufficient strength. This allows the Battle Harem to further raise in number and strength. By having Sub-Harems under the main one.
Sub Dominant - Members of one's harem that started harems of their own
Grand Dominant - Term used to refer to the Dominant one level above your harem.
Bond - Term used to refer to Submissives one level below your harem.
Unlike their direct Submissives, Grand Dominants only gain a fixed 5% of the abilities of all bonds regardless of their will or the will of the Sub Dominant. Levels further above are fixed at 1%
Male-Centered Harems are called Gladius harems after the late founder of Valorious. (Latin for Sword)
Quote from Emperor William Valorious
"Men are like swords and women like sheaths. Our blade's vigor and edge eventually wear out the sheaths, so you need multiple and should replace them frequently. A sheath's greatest honor is to house a sword."
Female-Centered Harems are called Arcus harems after the legendary empress of the Gracyeanor empire. (Latin for Bow)
Quote from Empress Sonia Gracyeanor
"Women are like bows, and men are like arrows. You don't drop the bow when you run out, you just get more. There will always be arrows begging to be used. An arrow only fulfills its purpose by being fired from a bow."
Ugly Bastard mines - The mines created by Valorious for magic metals, Ugly Bastards are sent to these lands as punishment for their atrocities in the nude. They are forced to mine without pay and rest.
The only rest they are allowed is for Deliverance sessions. Three times a day powerful aerosols with aphrodisiac-like effects are released around the mines. These sessions allow the bastards to relieve stress by means of copulation. In each session, Gender-bending potions are given at random and the ones who consume them have their genders magically changed for a couple of hours.
Mages are kept on standby to cure STDs to allow the continuous mining of ore. It is possible to sponsor gender-bending potions to a selected ugly bastard for nobles ranked count and above.
Whatever happens during a Deliverance session is considered just punishment. Thus except for murder, everything else is allowed. Note: Ugly Bastards are biologically castrated prior to entering the mines.
For grave offenders, they are sent into the monster mines, which simply replace the humans with monsters. Known types include goblins, orcs, kobolds, ogres, trolls, werewolves, and minotaurs.