The world's directory. Everything on it is public already: a character's page shows their strength and prestige to anybody, and a warband, a faction and an order each have a page of their own. Rankings gathers those facts into five ledgers so they can be compared, and it is the one place they are all listed: the war, realm and faith pages show you your own, and the way to any other is its name here.
Reach it from the navigation. It needs nothing from you: a reader with no character can open it, and nothing on it changes the world. Every name on it leads somewhere: a character's name opens their page, a house's name opens the house, and a warband's, an order's or a faction's name opens its page under War, Faith or Realm. Joining, leaving, donating, nominating, standing and every other act is done there.
Each ledger is one tab, with its own address, so a link to the warbands lands on the warbands after a reload. The bare page is the characters.
Every ledger works the same way. Filters stand above the table and say how much of it you are looking at, "3 of 19 warbands", with a Clear control whenever one is set. Every column heading is a button: press it to order the rows by that column, press it again to turn the order over. The active heading says which way it is sorted, in words for a screen reader and with an arrow for everybody else. Rows that tie on the sorted column keep a fixed order, by name and then by age of record, so nothing jumps between one reading and the next. A row with nothing in the sorted column, a warband with no camp, a faction with no president, sorts last whichever way the rest goes.
Every row begins with its place in the current order, counted across pages; a new sort therefore gives it a new rank. Choose 10, 25 or 50 rows per page (25 is the initial choice). The footer says which rows and page are visible and offers Back, Next and nearby page numbers. The three tiles above each ledger say its total, its highest relevant figure and your own current place, or a dash when you have none in that ledger.
Every living character in the world. The dead are records, not rankings, and are read from a house's tree instead.
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| Character | Their name, leading to their page |
| Strength | What training built |
| Prestige | Their standing, which a duel is decided on |
| Location | The region they stand in, and the country that holds it now, not the country it began in |
| Dynasty | Their house, leading to it |
It opens on prestige, highest first, because prestige is the one number in this world that is a ranking by nature: a large enough gap decides a duel before it is rolled, and this is where you find out how large the gap is.
Filter by name, by location, by house, or by people. The name and the house are typed, and any part of them will do; the location and the people are chosen from a list. A character's people is not a column, but it is a fact about them and a reasonable thing to ask the list for.
Every warband standing, wherever its home. Country is the warband's home, the country it was founded in, and not any member's citizenship: a warband recruits across borders, so its roll and its home can disagree, and it is the home that decides which realm's wars it fights. Owner, living members and the region of its camp, where it has one, complete the row. It opens on members, most first.
Filter by name, by home country, or by whether it is camped.
What a warband holds is not here. Its name opens its page under War, where its split is shown to anybody thinking of joining and its treasury and its roll to its own.
The religious orders you may know of. Every ordinary order is listed for everybody. A secret order is listed only for its own members, and for nobody else is there any sign of it: not a row, not a count, not a faith in the filter, not a word in the empty ledger. If the ledger says there are two orders, there are two orders you may know of.
Order, faith, type, leader, living members and backing, opening on backing, most first. Backing is gold the order has given its faith behind a nominee for its leadership; the conclave weighs it. The leader is the order's owner, who nominates and backs.
Filter by name, by faith, or by type, ordinary or secret. The type filter is always offered, whether or not you can see a secret order: a control that appeared only when you could would itself tell you something.
Every house in the world's record, including a fallen line. A house name opens its family tree and a recorded founder opens that character's page.
| Column | What it is |
|---|---|
| House | The bloodline's name |
| Founder | The character who founded it, where recorded |
| Living members | How many members remain alive |
| Line | Living or extinct |
It opens with living houses first, then by living members from most to least, then by name. Filter by house, founder, or whether the line is living or extinct.
Every faction in every realm. Country is the realm it operates in. President, living members and the number standing for the council this term complete the row, opening on members, most first.
The candidates are a count and nothing more. Who is standing, and in what order the faction would seat them, is the faction's own list and is shown to its members alone; a citizen deciding where to put a vote needs only to know whether there is anybody to seat. The factions chapter explains the two lists.
Filter by name, by country, or by whether the faction is open, its president chosen by its members, or closed. Open or closed is not a column, but it is the one thing about a faction's constitution a stranger may ask.
Countries, regions, faiths, relics, battles, claims, prisoners and wards have their own pages and are not repeated here. Nothing about any character's estate, their purse, their goods, their companies, their claims, appears on any ledger, by the same line that keeps it off their page: the body and the station are the world's business and the property is not. Nothing here combines the columns into a single score. There is no best character in Aldawyn, only the one with the most of whatever you sorted by.