Madina sounds very hierarchacal which you may chalk up to "being SMA" but truly we are the top 1% of nobility. We are all the elites of elites and deserve to be treated that way. All this talk of "not speaking below my station" seems a little intense for me...
On the other hand a noble claiming to have a lord title from another continent baffles me. Maybe you are trying to rp him as being proud, bordering on arrogant but, to me at least, he's coming off as a bit of a mad buffoon.
When Hyperion Harte, caerwyn's judge, came to Terran to set up shop i called him lord in my welcome as a sign of respect. But only because my character knew him and his situation personally, and only once.
Hell if you're gonna go around demanding to be called lord from past appointments why not demand it cause your relative on another continent is a lord and as such you deserve your due respect...
I really don't understand this "coming off as a mad buffoon" comment that people keep insisting on.
You said he's in the top 1% of nobility, he was accepted as nobility upon the moment he arrived in the realm, he has been trusted to run very important military mission, he has been (according to this thread) selected in the minds of the top nobility of the realm as being next in line to be either a lord or the next Duke, and yet...
when he tells you that he is the lord of a region on an island you are familiar with, he is "coming off as a mad buffoon" ?
I have an interesting twist on this - I think that based on the logic I have just outlined, anyone who DOESN'T accept that he is a lord is obviously crazy, and I'll start to treat them as such. That would be interesting, and a lot of fun role play :-)
