What Titles Are You Using for the Brevic Nobility?

[Doug OBrien]

Just figured I'd see what people were doing for titles down through landed gentry and warriors.

Anyone got any voivodes or anything out of the ordinary?

[redcelt32]

Nope, though I imagine Tsar and the like would probably be appropriate.

I am using english/european titles with the proper form of address in parens:

King/Queen (Your excellency)
Prince/Princess(your highness)
Duke/Duchess(your grace)
Baron/Baroness(your lordship)
Lord/Lady(my lord)

For Knightly orders:

Lord Commander (High Commander)
Knight Commander(Commander)
Knight of Quality(Ser)
Shield Knight(Ser)
Knight(Ser)
Squire(Squire)
Page (you there)

Wizards are just various forms of Mr. Badass, and clergy are completely dependent on the order.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

In my game wizards are usually given epithets:

Blackdraig, Master of Unreleting Force, Evoker of the 5th Circle. (The number of the circle represents the highest level spell they can cast).

In Brevoy I use Earl/Earlessa for the equivalent of Baron for any titles within the borders of Brevoy.

[Waiwode]

Heh-heh. Check user-name, a different version of Voivode.

Yes. For me the Northern Lords (Issia) use Germanic titles. Freiherr instead of Baron, Markgrafs, & Grafs. Prinz. Lots of Gorumite Nobles.

The southern lords use the titles we're more familiar with. Mind you, I have Brevoy as a strange Russian version of Austro-Hungary, where Noleski Surtova is King of Rostland but only the Regent of Issia. Rostland nobles favour Abadar.

[PJ]

Waiwode wrote:

Heh-heh. Check user-name, a different version of Voivode.

Yes. For me the Northern Lords (Issia) use Germanic titles. Freiherr instead of Baron, Markgrafs, & Grafs. Prinz. Lots of Gorumite Nobles.

The southern lords use the titles we're more familiar with. Mind you, I have Brevoy as a strange Russian version of Austro-Hungary, where Noleski Surtova is King of Rostland but only the Regent of Issia. Rostland nobles favour Abadar.

I actually don't have a king of Issia or Rostland. Surtova is a regent period. I've tried to give the feel of a slow rising storm that no one knows when it'll strike.

[Waiwode]

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire the Emperor of the A-H E was King of Hungary as well, Kaiser und König, or k.u.k. One ruler, with two titles.

As part of my changes, when Issia surrenders to Choral the Conqueror without a fight (unlike Rostland) they do so on the political fiction that Choral is not their King, but their Regent. Their lords owed him fealty, but didn't have to call him King.

With the disappearance of the bloodline the Issians have begun to question why they should have to recognize the Surtovas as Regents.

The Regent has given two of the four southern expansions to Issian nobles (one of which is our Issian Cavalier) to placate the more warlike Northern families (and with Gorum being popular up there, they have always been a touch warlike).