# Renown
Renown is a measure of the fame/infamy of anything of the world as a result it is use as a shorthand for
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## Renown Level details
| Score | Spread of Fame |
| ----- | ---------------------- |
| 0 | No spread |
| 1 | A settlement |
| 2 | Multiple Settlements |
| 3 | A Barony |
| 4 | A County |
| 5 | A Duchy |
| 6 | Minor National |
| 7 | National |
| 8 | Minor International |
| 9 | International |
| 10 | Across a Plane |
| 11 | Across Multiple Planes |
## Renown Level examples
| Score | Character | Location | Item | Event | Description |
| ----- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ---- | ----- | ------------------------------- |
| 0 | Brigand leader, commoner, shop owner | | | | Regular person without any fame |
| 1 | Knight, local guildmaster, professor | | | | |
| 2 | Cult leader, locally known mage, noble lord | | | | Known throughout a Barony |
| 3 | Assassin, baron, locally famous entertainer | | | | |
| 4 | Captain of the watch in a large city, high priest, viscount | | | | Known throughout a County |
| 5 | Count, warlord | | | | |
| 6 | Marquis, world-renowned entertainer | | | | Known throughout a Duchy |
| 7 | Duke, spymaster | | | | |
| 8 | Archmage, prince | | | | Known internationally |
| 9 | Demon lord, monarch | | | | |
| 10 | Archdevil, archfey, demigod | | | | Known on multiple planes |
| 11 | Deity, titan | | | | |
# Nobility Related
## Noble Ranks
| Rank | Name | Territory | Max Capital Type[^1] | Description |
| ---- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 8 | King | Kingdom/Empire | Metropolis | |
| 7 | ArchDuke | Grand Duchy | Metropolis | |
| 6 | Duke | Duchy | Metropolis | |
| 5 | Count | County | City | |
| 4 | Baron | Barony | Town | |
| 3 | Baronet | Baronetcy | Village | |
| 2 | Knight | Fief | Hamlet | |
| 1 | Peasant | None | None | |
| 0 | Animal or N/A | None | None | This is the rank for things that exist outside of the political structure |
| -1 | Slave/Criminal | None | None | |
# Languages
## Active Languages
| Language | Ancestry | Notes |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Anjali | Devils, hobgoblins | Language of contract law |
| Axiomatic | Memonek | Native language of Axiom, and the common language of the timescape by trade |
| Caelian | Orden denizens | Common Language of Orden |
| Filliaric | Angulotls | |
| The First Language | Elder dragons | Language of magic |
| Hyrallic | High elves | Language of interspecies diplomacy |
| Illyvric | Shadow elves | |
| Kalliak | Orcs | Offshoot of Zaliac |
| Kethaic | Kobolds | Patois of Vastariax and Caelian |
| Khelt | Bugbears, fey | Offshoot of Kheltivari |
| Khoursirian | Polder, humans | Distant offshoot of Khamish |
| High Kuric | Bredbeddles, giants, ogres, trolls | |
| Low Kuric | Elementals | |
| Mindspeech | Voiceless talkers | A symbolic language shared among native telepaths |
| Proto-Ctholl | Lower demons | Incomplete precursor of Tholl |
| Szetch | Goblins, radenwights | |
| Tholl | Higher demons, gnolls | |
| Urollialic | Olothec | |
| Variac | Olothec, trolls, voiceless talkers | Common language of the World Below |
| Vastariax | Dragons, dragon knights | |
| Vhoric | Hakaan | Offshoot of the stone giant dialect of High Kuric |
| Voll | Time raiders | |
| Yllyric | Wode elves | Language of druids |
| Za'hariax | Overminds | |
| Zaliac | Dwarves | Language of engineering |
## Dead Languages
| Language | Ancestry | Related Languages | Common Topics |
| ------------ | -------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Ananjali | Old hobgoblin | Anjali | Zodiakol, the bloodmetal |
| High Rhyvian | Sun elf | Hyrallic, Yllyric | Liannar, the sunmetal |
| Khamish[^2] | Beast lord | Khoursirian | Beast Magic |
| Kheltivari | Old fae | Yllyric, Khelt | Using a wode to travel<br>Kheltivari through time |
| Low Rhyvian | Sky elf | Hyrallic | Flying castles |
| Old Variac | Olothec, voiceless talkers | Variac | Kollar, the sinmetal |
| Phorialtic | Old elemental | Low and High Kuric | Moving between manifolds |
| Rallarian | Steel Dwarf | Zaliac | Valiar, the truemetal |
| Ullorvic | Star elf | Hyrallic, Yllyric | Rovion, the starmetal |
[^1]: A noble of any rank can not have a capital larger than those above them.
[^2]: Khamish is still spoken by lizardfolk and other creatures connected to the beast lords. However, the forms spoken today only vaguely resemble their original tongues and have been adapted for use within their speakers’ own circles.