#noble titles

[nightshadedawn]

Non-Binary Glossary

As someone who is non-binary myself, I felt it important to include lots of non-binary characters in my fantasy novel that does not give a SHIT about what you present as, thus I needed to come up with titles for various things, and I thought I'd share what's so far in my glossary, with perhaps a smidgen of hope it'll get a bit of recognition.

Baba/Babby/Bather/Grandbather - The non-binary word for parents and grandparents.

I imagine the 'papa' or 'granny' equivalent of this one would be 'tata' or 'batty'.

Why, yes, this word was built off of 'baba' which it to my understanding, a word for 'father' in many cultures. But did you know it's meaning differs in many different cultures? And, also, it's catching on as the 'parent' word, and if I ever become a parent (highly unlikely) I want to be called Baba, if not just by my name because I absolutely can't picture being called by a title of any sort.

Crown - The non-binary word used used for someone of the status of queen or king.

This idea I obtained from an interactive fiction I read, where your character was referred to as 'Crown [Insert Name]' no matter what gender you made your character. It flowed well, so I decided I'd use the thematics of it in my own works going forward.

Emperus - A non-binary title used for someone of the status of empress or emperor.

I had a bit of trouble coming up with this one. But seeing as both emperor and empress both started with that 'emp' I knew I had to keep that, and from there, I played around with multiple second-halves, ending on the 'erus' because I'm a simple creature and it combined the 'er' and 'ess' of the other two, so it didn't feel entirely out of place.

Enna - The non-binary word for your parent’s sibling. 

I fucking hate pibling. I don't know why, but it makes my skin CRAWL. I'd rather the niblings just call me by my name than have pibling anywhere in the conversation. Specifics wise, both 'aunt' and 'uncle' begin with vowels, but end differently. So I knew I wanted the word to begin with a vowel, and one different than the ones already used. I also knew it couldn't end with the hard 't' sound or the drawling 'el'. So I came up with a few options, and landed on enna because it was four letters like aunt, but two syllables like uncle, and began with the letter 'e' which is the most common letter in the alphabet. It's probably my favorite word on this list.

Laus - A non-binary word for someone of the status of Lord or Lady.

Ah, probably my second favorite word. Like for emperus and enna, I looked at the original words to find what they had in common. Only the 'L' followed by a vowel, which meant my word had to end different than both lord and lady. Well, it did have that pesky d in there, which proved a problem when I was trying to come up with words. I didn't like any of the other words I came up with, and landed on laus because it was the least miserable. The only other memorable ones were 'lent', 'lurt', and 'ludt' which all look terrible. Laus may stand out next to lord and lady, but at least it looks nice.

Princer/Prinx/Prinxer - A non-binary word for a royal heir. The ‘x’ is pronounced with a ‘zz’ sound.

Enby equivalents tends to have the 'x' at the end of their words, for whatever reason, since there's so many other things we could have done, but that's not the point. The point is both princess and prince begin with the 'princ'. I just needed to fluff up the end. In the end, I came up with these three, which I have not actually decided which one I'm going to use in my book. Pincer and prinxer are pronounced similarly, being 'prin-sehr' and 'prin-zer'. Phonetically, they don't sound similar to prince or princess, but at least one of them looks similar.

Ser/Sur - Honorifics used for knights in a similar vein to ‘Sir’. Sur is used for women, while ser is used for nonbinary, and sir remains for men. All are pronounced similarly.

I thought I was brilliant when I came up with this one. Originally, it was going to be 'sar' for women, and 'sur' for non-binary, but when I realized how similar 'sur' sounded in my head to 'sir' my brain went 'ser too' and thus, here we are. Because am I the only one who thinks it's dumb how men have all these titles and women keep having to use the same one over and over and over again? It's always "lady this" and "lady that". Well, no longer for the knights, as they will be referred to with Sur. Ser will be used for enbys due to so many of my other words containing the e. E for enby, everyone.

Words I am currently working on:

Madam/master

Duke/duchess

Baron/baroness

Countess/count

Earl - Will be looking for both an enby and women word, because currently, it's just countess here again.

Going down this route will be pretty easy, except for the madam/master one. Once I decide on the princess/prince word, the rest of these will just follow those rules, as princess just added 'ess' onto the end of 'prince' after all.

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[cepheusgalaxy]

🌼A guide to european titles for fantasy or medieval-ish settings🌼

Long post

From the most important/powerful to the least

King/Queen - the hightest title. They're adressed as "Your Majesty".

You shall never adress a king or queen as "Your Highness". This is used for lower titles, not the monarch

Prince/princess - the child of the king/queen and possibly their heir. They should be adressed as "Your Highness"

Duke/duchess - they're the highest title in noblety aside of the king/queen. They're adressed as "Your Highness" such as the prince/princess, or as "Your Grace"

Your Grace used to be used for the king/queen back in the old times too, but not anymore

Marquis/marquise - one rank below dukes/duchesses, and adressed as "Your Lordship" "Your Ladyship" "My Lady/lord" or as lord and lady.

Earl/countess - The third title in the rank, adressed as "My Lord/Lady" or "Earl/countess of X". You can also use "My Lordship/Ladyship".

Viscount/viscountess - A rank lower than earl and countess: adressed as "Lord/lady Titlename" or "Viscount/viscountess of Titlename" (You could use just "lord" or "lady" as well)

Baron/baroness - "Your Lady/Lord" or "My Ladyship/Lordship"

Lords and Ladies - lower members of the noblety, you can adress them as Lord and Lady

Usually the titles of Marquis/marquise and below are adressed just with "my lord/my lady"

If I said something inaccurate or there is something you would like to add, please let me know!

Neutral versions of the titles

King/queen

- Monarch

- They're usually called "sire" or "madam" instead or lord and lady

- An alternative would be "mire" or just "mx"

Prince/princess

- Prinxe

- Prin

- Princette (thought it may look more feminine in some languages)

- Heir

- just Your Highness

Lord/lady

- Liege

- Potentate (a latin word for someone in power)

Duke/duchess

- Ducand

Marquis/marquise

- Marquisis

Earl/countess

- Countier

Viscount/viscountess

- Viscountier

Baron/baroness

- Baronex

- Baroenne

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[eeriecorri]

Bridgerton Fic Writing info

Pulling from my knowledge of Regency Era romance, plus my history research, I’m going to share some info that may help people writing Bridgerton fic set in the canonical Regency Era. 

Using the Correct Titles (If they have a title, they aren’t a Mr or Mrs.) 

The thing to remember here is that British nobility and the Ton have a rigid social structure that is stratified by rank. If someone has a title, they are addressed as befitting that title. 

With this in mind, a titled individual would never be addressed as a Mr or Mrs. I have seen fics set in the Regency that have a duke referred to as a Mister and this would not happen, ever. I know it can get confusing when there are multiple women with the same title, but the older Lady is not downgraded to a Mrs after the death of their spouse. For example, Violet Bridgerton is the Viscountess Bridgerton, to be addressed as Lady Bridgerton. She would never be called Mrs. Bridgerton. That would either be an insult to her or indicated that the person calling her that is an outsider, because everyone in the Ton knows how to address a Viscountess. It may seem confusing that Kate Sharma becomes Lady Bridgerton after she and Anthony marry, but to differentiate between them, people would add “Dowager” before Violet’s title, making her the Dowager Viscountess. It is the same for Lady Featherington. Portia is Lady Featherington, no matter if the next Lord Featherington marries.

Titled people are addressed by their highest rank, only changing their form of address if they acquire a higher rank. If, say, Portia remarried to a man of a rank higher than a baron, she would be addressed by his title. If she married a rich but untitled man, she would still be Lady Featherington because that rank is higher than a mere Mrs.

Peerage Ranking System:

So at the top of the ranking system, we have the non-royal dukes. Royal dukes are another matter and outrank all hereditary peers. Simon is a non-royal duke, this is why he is such a catch. The only people in England who outrank him are members of the Royal family. The wife of a duke is a duchess, hence Daphne being the Duchess of Hastings. They are addressed as “his/her/your grace” and referred to as the duke/duchess. 

Below dukes, we have marquesses. They would be addressed as “the most honorable” Whatshisname, the Marquess of Whoknows. The wife of a marquess is a marchioness. Fun historical fact, Henry VIII made Anne Boleyn the Marquess(not marchioness) of Pembroke, giving her the title in her own right which rarely ever happens.  

Next we have earls. This is really only a British thing, as nobility on continental Europe of equal rank would be called a count. This handily explains why the wife of an earl is called a countess. They just literally never bothered to come up with a female equivalent to an earl.

A viscount ranks just below an earl, which knowing that earl is basically a count, makes sense. Viscount = vice count. The wife of a viscount is a viscountess, which if you’ve be watching the show, you should know. This is also why the Bridgerton children are Mr and Miss Bridgerton. Viscounts aren’t of a high enough rank to bestow courtesy titles on their children. 

The lowest rank of the hereditary peerage is a baron. Lord Featherington was a baron and Portia was his baroness. Again, their children do not warrant courtesy titles.

If my mad rambling doesn’t make sense, there is a video link below that may explain it better. The video also covers the landed gentry which aren’t really part of the hereditary peerage, but could easily move in the same circles as the Ton. Sir Philip would actually be part of the gentry, though they don’t specify his exact rank. He is likely a baronet, as he seems to have inherited the title of Sir from his elder brother, and knighthoods are not usually hereditary. 

Courtesy Titles: 

If a duke, marquess, or earl holds multiple titles, then his eldest son will hold one of his lesser titles as courtesy title while his father still lives, inheriting all of his father’s title upon the formers death. If he doesn’t not hold any subsidiary titles his son would just Lord (Last Name). The holder of a courtesy title also doesn’t get use “the” before their title, which indicates that the title is a substantive. Simon is “the” Duke of Hastings, indicating he holds the title in his own right.

Legitimate daughters of peers who are ranked an earl or higher may style themselves as Lady (Insert First Name here). Younger sons of dukes and marquesses may style themselves as Lord (Insert First Name here). This is a courtesy style. Simon and Daphne’s younger children will be able to style themselves this way. As the Bridgerton title is viscount, the rank below an earl, none of the younger Bridgertons can style themselves a Lord or Lady. They could style themselves as the honorable First Name Last Name, and probably would be referred to this way in legal documents and when being announced at balls. This style likely doesn’t come up in casual conversation. 

Sources 

You can use these links for further reading. Mostly its Wikipedia, because it's easy to consume and not behind a paywall. You can look at the sources on the Wikipedia articles to find more scholarly information. 

Hereditary Peers Wikipedia 

Courtesy Titles in the UK Wikipedia

List of Peerages Created for Women UK Wikipedia

The Order of Noble Titles: From Gentlemen to Dukes Youtube Video

#bridgerton #regency era #writing guide #featherington #titles #noble titles #fanfic #i have an undergraduate degree i don't use #let me feel like a scholar for a little bit

[cactuskid99]

Repost and make up a medieval noble title, I'll go first: St. Luke of Richmond

#history #history memes #medieval #medieval noble titles #noble titles

[mxpsychosweetheart]

Not me looking up specific rules to how noble titles are inherited and passes down and the difference for how to address a marquess and how to address the wife of a baron and all for a story that will probably never see the light of day

#writing problems #just writer things #writers #noble titles #research is killing me #research

[lyralit]

nobility titles (in order of importance) - writing prompts

empress / emperor - rules over an empire, composed of several kingdoms or countries. highest rank

king / queen - rules over a kingdom. could be a part of an empire, but still quite powerful

duchess / duke - rule over a duchy (a part of a kingdom, ex. a province or large territory). second only to the literal king and queen

marquis / marchioness - support dukes and duchesses, don't usually own territory

countess / count/earl - rule over cities. have their own castles. pretty cool guys

viscount / viscountess - rule over smaller lands, like towns or villages. they can also be the children of counts/earls and countesses

baron / baroness - the 'servants' of nobility. usually only people who have their own land + a noble rank.

⚜️.

princess / prince - the descendants of royalty

knight / dame - usually military folk with titles (addressed as "sir")

lady / lord - addressing anyone below the rank of queen / king (unless their title is princess / prince)

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[theeminentlyimpractical]

I’m bringing back the term ‘fag hag’ just for donna noble. that bitch earned it.

#it’s a title it’s an energy it’s a power and my queen wields it with grace #donna noble #doctor who

[verecunda]

Petition to get authors of history and archaeology books to stop referring to any historical power struggle as "a real-life game of thrones".

#petty bitchery #even Gordon Noble went and titled one of his books on Pictish archaeology 'The King in the North' like shut up shut UUUUUPPPPPPP

[hamletthedane]

My neighbor just leaned across the 50ft-drop gap between our apartment balconies to hand me a 6-pack of Shiner as a bribe to finish watching Red White & Royal Blue with him and his British boyfriend (“you don’t understand - it’s ABOUT THE TWO OF US!!”), and I think snapshots of time like this are probably the meaning of life

#his mom is a big Texas politician he’s from Austin and his boyfriend has some kind of noble title in Britain so he’s not WRONG #but the question is: will I allow my favorite drink to be a bribe to watch fanfic in movie form at my neighbor’s house #or rather finish watching bc I fell asleep around the 90th sex scene last time lmao #and woke up only in time to angrily text DJ about the fact that the characters somehow BIKE from DOWNTOWN AUSTIN to the SUBURBS #shut up e #random #off topic blogging #red white and royal blue #cw alcohol

[avionvadion]

I’ve noticed I have a bit of pet peeve, lol.

Specifically involving the use of Your Majesty and Your Highness.

Your Majesty is used for the ruling monarch, while Your Highness is used for the monarch’s heir and relatives of the royal family. But people have been referring to Lucifer as Your Highness.

Charlie is Your Highness. Lucifer is Your Majesty. Likewise, Lilith is/was also Your Majesty.

Just… Just a little tip. A fun fact.

#maybe this is my autism showing I dunno but like. Lucifer and Lilith are the ones in charge. not Charlie. #hazbin hotel #honorifics #royal titles #I have a full list about noble titles and their honorifics #it’s weird lol

[nat-20s]

Fourteen very well can't keep going by just "The Doctor" as he's not the person actually fulfilling the role of The Doctor right now. So um. What about Doctor Noble

#🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 #whatever. thinking about the doctor being a title and not a name #and their real name is shrouded in secrecy #but what if. Noble becomes their real name in every way that matters... #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #tennant doctor

[betterbooktitles]

The screen I spend the most time with these days is a black LCD monitor attached to a PC in an indie bookshop on Long Island. I spend whole days looking at point-of-sale software called Anthology which also keeps track of the store’s inventory. Often, it’s accurate. Occasionally, it says we have three copies of The Bell Jar that have simply disappeared from the face of the Earth. No one stole them. They were raptured, like socks that never make it out of the dryer.

If you’ve never worked a retail job, let me tell you what it’s like: you come in with a little spring in your step, caffeinated, and ready to greet your coworkers and update them on how terrible your last shift without them was. Though the memory of the previous shift’s slog might give you a little anxiety, and though a hangover can make your fuse a little short, you’re in a better mood at the start of the day than at the end. Tedious tasks like ordering and unboxing books (sci-fi movies did not prepare me for how much cardboard there would be in the future) seem manageable in the morning. Customers seem kind. The items you’re selling feel necessary to human happiness. Whatever is going on in your life is put on pause to manage store operations, and time flies. Then, by 3 PM, whether you had time for lunch or not, you wish you had done anything else with your day — or, better yet — your life. 

While the back-straining work of moving inventory around the store or walking the floor helping customers all day without a second to sit down might make you physically tired, the real work of retail is mental and forces employees to become part-machine. Retail workers have to ask the same three questions (“Rewards?” “Bag?” “Receipt?”) and reply to the same three questions (“Have it?” “Bathroom?” “Manager?!?!?”) for 8-10 of their most worthwhile waking hours. 

In bookstores, there is the added expectation that while you’re participating in this mind-numbing routine, you’re at least able to pretend to like and engage with literature. I'm not arguing that people working at Old Navy aren’t eloquent or as over-educated for their job as I am. If they aren’t teenagers, most retail employees I’ve encountered have, by virtue of talking to coworkers and customers all day, the same high emotional intelligence as the smartest people I know who chain smoke outside bars. Still, my guess is that it’s rare for a customer to see a clothing store employee folding clothes, and think “I wonder what their opinion is of the latest Ann Patchett book” or “I wonder if they read Knausgård and run a book club when they’re not helping me find jeans in my size.” People see booksellers doing the same tedious tasks as any other retail employee and assume they not only possess unlimited knowledge about the state of publishing but also have unlimited hours to read while in the store. Customers hold booksellers to an impossible intellectual standard. When they fail to live up to said standard, they’re subjected to conversations like this:

“You haven’t read the latest Kingsolver?” a customer will ask, “Why not? What about this one? Or that one? It’s so good though! I thought you would have read all of these!” 

What’s a shame is that they think they’re being kind when they half-recommend, half-admonish bookstore employees. Worse are the people who are flat-out rude. Case in point, a man came into the store at hour six of my shift, and without any preamble, treating me like I was a human Google search bar, said the name of an author, then started spelling the name. When I asked for a second to look up what I assumed he was asking for, he rolled his eyes and began spelling slowly and loudly: “PAUL. P…A…U…” 

Sadly, I’m too old to be treated that way and without thinking I raised my hand and said sternly “Don’t do that.” Now some oblivious retired banker is walking around Long Island asking himself why indie booksellers are so mean. My Midwestern niceness has disappeared, my helpful attitude is now nonexistent. I have been worn down by the people I’m paid to be kind to.

Read the rest here.

#lit #lol #humor #funny #essay #essays #bookselling #barnes and noble #reading #writing #customers #american fiction #books #literature #better book titles #dan wilbur

[senseearly]

Thinking about how Kabumisu interactions post-canon is loud hush-talk among the Elven Nobles in the west and figureheads in the Golden Kingdom. Like the Elven Ambassador??? Speaking with one of the King's most trusted advisors??? Is this a coup plot? A conspirancy? Prelude to invasion?

Meanwhile, Kabru and Mithrun is engaged in the slowest but also sweetest courtship. This is Kabru's first serious-serious relationship (like the leading to an engagement-type of relationship) and he doesnt want to fuck it up; Mithrun meanwhile likes Kabru and wants to be with him but is figuring out the things he wants in this relationship.

(Like I just find both sides panicking -- Elves trying to spy on Mithrun's and his House's affairs at the Golden Kingdom; people of Melini trying to figure out if the elves through Mithrun is somewhat plotting to take over their Kingdom. Meanwhile, Laois cannot be bothered by it; by this time he knows Kabru and by some extension Mithrun, the many times he got scolded by intruding to their dates aosjdodjskjs either way, the King downplays it, the Elven Queen is more amused than wary. Either way, Mithrun eventually quits and moves to the Golden Kingdom permanently -- honestly to just hunt monsters and cook noodles -- Kabru continues his work as political advisor and wards off the court's political enemies. Somewhere along the line, Kabru and Mithrun get married. And Laios uses that as an excuse to have a national monster meat feast lol)

#kabumisu #kabru dungeon meshi #mithrun dungeon meshi #kabru #mithrun #kabru of utaya #mithrun of the house of kerensil #serious talk tho: kabrus relationship w mithrun if mithrun stays as an ambassador is not a good look #at least as laios' political advisor #i dont think laois will doubt kabru; but the other figureheads of the golden kingdom could #and the elves dont particularly hold a great reputation re: acknowledging short lived races and their land titles and possessions but #also mithrun is still an Elven noble #elves could try and use him to spy for the golden kingdom tho i doubt mithrun would want to do that #or be a good fit *looks at pattadol instead* #okay maybe not pattadol

[wrishwrosh]

well i finally reread gideon the ninth

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #my art tag #bestowing upon them the noble title of These Two Freaks #i want a whole book of no fight scenes no magic intrigue just these two staring bug eyed at each other across the room #like that scene from the restaurant episode of its always sunny

[lovecoredeity]

introducing Faustus Lightfeather, a noble paladin from the Celestial Empire and also Cashmere’s undearly betrothed never mind the fact that Cashmere doesn’t even know he’s engaged

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[windvexer]

I'm not saying 1992 was the year of peak witchcraft but I AM saying that we lost something when we stopped naming ourselves Lady Pearldew Ravendusk.

#noble title + compound nature words #bring it back #witches self-aggrandize 2023