What my view to this is: Difference between Peon and Slave was not really substantial and most people ignored it. The idea behind 'Slave' status now is that its just someone belonging to the mansion. But we could add sort of different statuses to the wife/maybe some unique characters, but the new loyalty subclasses have been the main focus of the character specialization part.
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Well, in that sense, that's fair. Maybe remove the "- is your slave and must follow your orders by law" text and change the whip icon as well then, because that's jarring to i'm guessing the 3% of us players trying to not have actual slaves in the manor if we weren't specifically trying to be a slave owner.