Absalom's native nobles of the Grand Council increasingly refuse to involve themselves in the governance of Absalom, considering both the work and the city's populace to be beneath them. They instead begin hiring out their responsibilities, including voting, to foreign contractors.12
Soon after, these proxy agents of the Grand Council—led by the Blue Lords of Taldor and the Qadiran and OsirianCult of the Hawk,2 with Willis of House Loranne as Primarch1—enact the Proxy Laws to officially require that all municipal labor be performed by outside professionals.32 By some measures, this initiates what becomes known in Absalom as Age of Excess,1 and the Proxy Laws would remain in effect until 2921 AR, near the age's end.4
