World Noble

The World Nobles (Sekai Kizoku), also known as the Tenryuubito (天竜人, lit. Heavenly Dragon Folks), are the descendants of twenty kings who destroyed the Ancient Kingdom eight-hundred years ago and established what is now known as the World Government.

About
These are the people who are allowed to live in the Holy Land of Mariejoa. However due to their connection to the WG, they constantly abuse their power and look down on the people below them, referring to them as commoners. They can be sometimes seen walking around Sabaody Archipelago, but are disconnected to the point that they wear bubbles over their heads to prevent from even breathing the air of the common people. Whenever one appears people instantly bow as not to upset them.

They are first mentioned in Chapter 496.

Culture of the Higher Classes
The Tenryuubito have various rights and privileges not held by many other people in the world. In particular, they are able to buy people, including pirates, who have been captured and put into slavery and their actions are overlooked by the World Government. Their method of discipline is to inject tranquilizers into the slave to stop them escaping. They tend to treat their slaves poorly, making them do excess things and treating them badly when they reach their limits. Although they often buy people from Auction houses, they can make anyone a slave that they choose to. They may have as many spouses as they wish, can take anyone they wish as their spouse off the street and can dismiss them in an instant.

Each Tenryuubito shown so far has been seen wielding a firearm, mostly for shooting people they dislike. It is said that no matter if someone is killed right before your eyes, you should never oppose the world nobles. Those who do are immediately reported by them to one of the 3 Admirals: Aokiji, Akainu or Kizaru. Failure of the Marines is also unacceptable by the World Nobles terms.

To this, the World Nobles show no moral values, no reguard to Justice and are free to do absolutely as they wish. They can also be regarded as the very example of how how corrupt and absurded the One Piece world is.

History
Luffy is seen punching Saint Charloss at the end of Chapter 502.

Usopp accidentally fell on, and knocked out, Saint Roswald in Chapter 503. Silvers Rayleigh knocks Saint Shalulia out with a burst of "spirit energy".

List of known World Nobles

 * Saint Roswald
 * Saint Shalulia
 * Saint Charloss