(Disclaimer: the Abh are ultimately the work of Hiroyuki Morioka. This informal adaptation to the fourth edition of Dungeons and Dragons deviates significantly from the original.)
A serf (soss) usually becomes a citizen (laimh) through seven years' service in the Navy. They may or may not leave at any time after, but for those seven years they are considered serfs of the Navy proper.
Children of citizens are considered citizens themselves only if the parent chooses to formally recognize the child within the first year; under any other circumstance, the child is considered either a serf of their demesne of residence or an outlaw. (Specifically, by law and custom, merely provably being a child of a citizen is not sufficient.) Most lords charge child-citizens an adult-sized rent fee, in the hopes of driving someone into serfdom.
Occasionally, usually due to insane bravery or skill in battle, a citizen or serf will be Knighted; they and any children they designate become nobility proper, which may not be stripped away. (Note that any future descendants must be ritual-created Abh to be considered Knights.)
... as previously mentioned, Barons (and, often, Viscounts) typically badly want commoner residents of their demesne; at this point probably everything has been tried by someone at one time or another, with varying degrees of success and negative consequences. Yes, even that thing you thought of just now.
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