An attempt to codify the Byzantine military system.

Ranks of the members of a particular craft guild or livery company.

A simplified explanation of the nobility of the Ottoman Empire.

A fantasy version of nobility from a Middle-Eastern type setting.

The hierarchy of the Hashashin, also known as the Order of Assassins or Silver Band.

The hierarchy of the Thuggee Cult.

Hierarchy of the Shinto religion.

Titles & Ranks for monastic religious organizations.

Sumotori Ranks

A summary of the various ranks found within the geisha community.

Ranks & Titles for Chivalric & Theocratic Knightly Orders

Mongol Military Ranks & Civil Organization

Titles & Ranks for a standard organized church hierarchy.

Land Forces military ranks for fantasy settings.

Expanded ninja ranks as used by myself.

Naval ranking of crew and officers.

"How did you lose your arm?"
"Well you see, I fought this one bloke with a bizarre sword..."

A rare and diseased jewel, a canker fallen from the heavens

Not named for an resident beast, but for the multitude of winding, mazelike passages fraught with danger.

As the paladin stripped what he could find from the foe that he had just killed, he did not know that the band of jade that he stripped from the body would do a warrior of Good like him not good at all and would weaken him just when he most needed his strength to fight evil.