The Ontology of Nobility

Beforehand,

A hyper-perspective or leading story.

Indulgences.

You gather your forces.

You create a big effort using some skill or strategy.

Then, disappointment.

Later,

A unique and notable achievement.

The poison syndrome. The belief that others are out to poison you.

Then, securing a legacy.

Then magical events and obscurity, or else  tragedy and chaos.

Then, after death or transformation, either one attains a 'position' or one lives a different life.

The different life pays in the most obvious (natural law) karma, the position promises continuation.

Then one is noble again, or at least great, unless one somehow proves one is lesse noble.

If one is lesse noble one is taught a lesson, and gains knowledge of the world. But when life ends, one is granted more of it, so one may be great even if little comes of it. The less things happen, the less a fool, the lesse noble is still noblesse.