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    My other thoughts would be to use Strategos for Grand Duke.

    It was the highest non-royal rank you could get...and seems suitably impressive.

    Augustus or Caesar has to be the FL or nothing...they are a lock as one of the top royal positions in most reference material I have available...

    Please note I'm NOT using Wikipedia as my first reference on any of this!!

    Another question is the spelling...do we use the Latin based version or the converted English letters?

    i.e. Kyestor or Quaestor; Avgustos or Augustus etc etc.
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    tbh I'd prefer to keep the titles in English otherwise I'm going to get really confused as to who is what rank and probably end up using English anyway.

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    No new names/titles to add, just wanted to say I rather like the idea of using Basileus for the emperor (or just using them both interchangably).
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    Title: The Other Romans

    That's all I've got right now, but Strategos should definitely make an appearance somewhere.
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    Just as a warning, my only source is wikipedia.

    1) I don't have anything yet, the first things that come to mind are "Those Greek Bastards" or "Theodora's folks"

    2) Caesar

    3) Basileus (Could also be Emperor, I guess will see Basileus as much as we saw Kaiser in KotR)

    4) Senate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Senate)

    5) Megas Logothetes (Magistros could be given to Ex-Chancellor to signal his influence bonus, it being a honorofic title without any executive powers)

    6)
    Knight----------- Strategos (lowest rank that has command of armies)
    Baronet----------- Praetor
    Baron-----------
    Viscount-----------
    Count-----------
    Marquess-----------
    Duke-----------
    Grand Duke----------- Exarch

    Haven't found anything suitable for the other titles. Also Strategos is a little disputable. After all, all following titles will also have command of an army, thus making them a Strategos.
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    Please can we use "The Empire Strikes Back" (TESB)?

    It futhfills my Roman, Byzantine AND Star Wars wants

    I will leave the titles to others for now. May have a look later, but I feel I annoyed people enough back when it was a language I knew.
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