Everyone else lives like normal, getting their daily water allotment from the reeves and sacrificing water to the Sunlord, who they believe is the source of the water powers that keep their cisterns filled. People with just water sensitivity are called "reeves" and are mostly administrative and holy. A "rainlord" has lesser power over water, and are used in governing and maintaining cities and water supplies. People with water powers are rare, and stormlords rarer still. The strongest of these, called "stormlords", can draw water vapor out of the distant sea and cause rain in strategic places to fill the cisterns of the cities. A trilogy of novels by Glenda Larke about a society that exists in an extremely dry climate, and get their precious water through people with power over water.
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