User:Octavius/Table of Ranks
| Noble Grades | ||||
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| Grade | Style of Address | Peerage | Military | Civil |
| I | Your Magnificence | Kaiser | ||
| II | Your Serenity | Prince of Shireroth | Steward Chamberlain | |
| III | Your Illustriousness | Duke | Minister | |
| IV | Count-Palatine | Frainan Streïakeï | ||
| V | Commissioner | |||
| VI | The Admirable and Illustrious | Marquis Count |
Standard Legate |
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| VII | The Admirable | Viscount | Tribune (Broad) | Director |
| VIII | Tribune (Middle) | Chief Inspector | ||
| IX | Lord | Tribune (Narrow) | Deputy Chief Inspector | |
| X | The Honorable | Captain Opratzan |
Inspector | |
| XI | Undercaptain | Lead Investigator Senior Investigator | ||
| XII | Investigator Junion Investigator | |||
| Vulgar Grades | ||||
| Grade | Style of Address | Peerage | Military | Civil |
| A | Position | Minor Property Holders | Other Ranks | Clerks and Aides |
| B | Good | Free Persons with no contracted service obligations or blights upon their character or record. | ||
| C | Loyal | Free Persons who are under government-authorized service contract. They have the same legal rights and recourse as Category B, but are regarded as having an inferior social standing due to being bound to and constrained by a service contract.
This includes tenants on public land or titled estates, the latter of which are classified as public land under the management of the titled peer (as opposed to being under the management of an Imperial endowment or under that of the Lord Lieutenant's office). | ||
| D | That | Persons who have been reduced to criminality, debauchery, captivity, etc. | ||
| X | - | Unclassified persons, i.e. resident aliens, foreigners, etc. May be temporarily endowed with a higher courtesy status. | ||
Corporate Status
Corporate bodies (associations, colleges of priests, executive agencies, universities, corporations, etc) may be elevated to a designated grade. Therein, dependent upon the endowment, the president shall be accorded courtesy dignity at that grade when active and representing that corporate body, e.g. in the Adelsraad. Retired president shall be accorded courtesy dignity two grades below the corporate body should they not have rank in and of themselves. Such courtesy dignities, by definition, are personal and cannot be inherited. Rank is restricted to those bodies with Shirerithian-only voting membership and will be removed should the voting membership of the body change to disrupt that.
Examples of a ranked corporate body include the University of Sir John Metzler III, a Grade III corporate body, and the Keepers of the Valley of Mors, a Grade VI corporate body.
Inheritance
Upon elevation to Grade XII, one is endowed with personal nobility. All immediate descendants of nobles, whether inherited or uninherited, are guaranteed admission into the Imperial Academy. Graduates of the Imperial Academy are assigned to a Grade XII position in accordance with their training, and endowed with honors therein.
Upon elevation to Grade VII, nobility is extended to one's descendents in perpetuity. Such inherited noble status shall be ranked and honored at Grade IX behind those who have demonstrated the mettle of their heart, and shall be addressed in a manner that concatenates their inherited nobility and their personal nobility, e.g. "The Admirable and Honorable".
Upon elevation to Grade V, immediate descendants shall be ranked and honored at Grade VI behind those who have demonstrated the mettle of their heart, and shall be addressed with "The Illustrious" in their concatenation, e.g. "The Illustrious and Honorable".
Peerages are inherited according to their grants and/or house rules.
