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Old June 15th, 2008, 03:48 PM
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Default Re: Masquerades queries

Well it is true, they are to be considered extremely powerful no matter how you slice it. To be terribly fair, I probably did what I was trying not to do, I ended up using 2 terms that are for most purposes interchangable. It's actually very hard, because so many people have used the terms in so many ways, to make an easily recognizable hierarchy. Realistically over time, these mystical titles can easily be broken down into 3 categories corresponding to Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master. Unfortunately, when you try to go to 4 ranks and above, you start to have to steal terms from those 3 categories, and shove them inbetween to fill the gaps.

For example, I was going to have the first 2 be Initiate and Novice/Novitiate. I was upset to find that the dictionary considers them to be synonyms.
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