atleast the ear-less jokes are over

But... I liked the ear-less jokes

Seriously, these titles are way cooler than the old Celestian ones. Count alone is teh r0xx, but add Marquis and Viscount on to them, and boy-howdy, you've got some f-ing good titles.

Count is cool, I'll give you that. But Marquis and Viscount are lame.

Goddamn ain't.

I mean, hell, you can't complain about Master, can you?

Master's alright... Baron and Earl are still my favorites

The new titles have a way of putting people in their places certainly makes me not feel as good as being a Goodwoman, but at least if it was the real world Id be paid unlike the Serfs below

Communes can't switch, we're stuck with the commune style of leadership, it's the cities that get to change around if they wish.

No way I'd much rather be a Marquessa than an Earless...

Hehe, I'm a 'supervisor'. That makes me want to do the evil dance for some reason

i think magnagora has been each leadership style at one point or another in time, i wish i had've copied them all down

Just so you know, a Marquis outranks an Earl.

Based on European Rankings, here's how it goes.
Emperor (Hereditary/Dynastic)
Crown Prince (Hereditary/Dynastic)
Royal Prince (Hereditary/Dynastic)
King (Sovereign)
Emperor (Elected)
King (Part of a Empire)
Palantine Noble (Any noble below who is a monarch, but has smaller teritory).
Nobles

High

Archduke
Grand Duke
Duke
Prince (non-royal)

Median

Marquis
Count or Earl
Viscount
Great Baron

Minor

Baron
Lord
Baronette

Knights

I don't know how it works in Lusternia, but titles might change based on how big the territories are. I'll bet Emperor will be save for an organization that ends up influencing all the basin.

Magnagora used to be an Empire once, even without taking all villages.

Yup, but I stand by Earl and Baron being cooler

I'm a Mistress, woot for that Mistress>Lady

We need a marquis de carabas now >.>

I love the title Marquessa. It is teh hawt, compared to Earless.

Magnagora at 5 villages = Empire


It's the equivilant of Celests Kingdom(though, since they changed I'm not sure what they'd be now ), or Serenwilde's Alliance

Americans. I love you all.

The English title Earl is the equivalent of the European title Count. We don't have Earlesses. We have Countesses. Phred.. I have no idea where you got that list.. but it's.. peculiar..

As far as English titles go, a rough order is:

Knight
Baronet (a title created by James I in one of his innumerable attempts to raise money - he created the title as a sort of alternative knighthood and then sold it. There had been a tradition of (essentially) selling titles for some time.. James just took this one stage further)
Baron - comes from a Frankish word meaning warrior
Viscount - from the latin Comes meaning companion
Earl - comes from the anglosaxon erl, meaning warrior/noble
Marquis - didn't know this one.. and haven't been able to google for a satisfactory explanation of its etymology... seems to have been a title that came over to England with so much else from France at and after the Norman Conquest.
Duke - from the Latin Dux meaning leader
Royal titles

The Marquessa thing.. is weird and continental. As far as I know, the British female variant of Marquis is Marquess.

Pub down here called the Marquess' something. So yeah.