fic reference: "To Serve A Queen" - Jewel Ranks and Blood Castes

[tielan]

Posted for the people who haven't read the Anne Bishop 'Black Jewels' trilogy and are trying to make sense of the world I've crossbred Atlantis with in "To Serve A Queen".

Jewels

White
Yellow
Tiger Eye
Rose
Summer-sky
Purple Dusk
Opal *
Green
Sapphire
Red
Gray
Ebon-Gray
Black

*Opal is the dividing line between ligher and darker Jewels because it can be either.

When making the offering to the Darkness, a person can descend a maximum of three ranks from his/her birthright jewel.

Example: Birthright White could descend to Rose.

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Blood Hierarchy/Castes
Males:

landen - Non-Blood of any race

Blood male - a general term for all males of the Blood; also refers to any Blood male who doesn’t wear Jewels

Warlord - a Jewelled male equal in status to a witch

Prince - a Jewelled male equal in status to a Priestess or Healer

Warlord Prince - a dangerous, extremely aggressive Jewelled male, slightly lower than a Queen


Females:

landen - Non-Blood of any race

Blood female - a general term for all females of the Blood; mostly refers to any Blood female who doesn’t wear Jewels

witch - a Blood female who wears Jewels but isn’t one of the other hierarchical levels; also refers to any Jewelled female

Healer - a witch who heals phyiscal wounds and illnesses; equal in status to a Priestess and a Prince

Priestess - a witch who cares of altars, Sanctuaries, and Dark Altars; witnesses handfasts and marriages; performs offerings ; equal in status to a Healer and a Prince

Black Widow - a witch who heals the mind; weaves the tangled webs of dreams and vision; is trained in illusions and potions

Queen - a witch who rules the Blood; is considered to be the land’s heart and the Blood’s moral center; as such, she is the focal point of their society