Standing Hierarchy
0. Unranked
~70%
• New Initiates
• Civilians
• Failed Crossers
• No recognized feats
Most people never leave this tier.
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Initiate Standing Tier
1. Low Initiate
~18%
• Just crossed the expanse
• Chosen a Function
• No meaningful combat or impact yet
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2. Mid Initiate
~6%
• First successful encounters
• Can operate briefly outside safe zones
• Still fragile and replaceable
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3. High Initiate
~1%
• Proven survival ability
• Trusted for dangerous tasks with supervision
• Beginning to specialize
Lyra originally entered here.
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Wayfarer Standing Tier
4. Low Wayfarer
~3%
• Fully recognized field operative
• Can lead small tasks
• No longer considered expendable
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5. Mid Wayfarer
~1.5%
• Reliable veteran
• Survival instincts hardened
• Assigned to long expeditions
Tomas is here.
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6. High Wayfarer
~0.8%
• Elite veterans
• Can command expeditions
• Trusted by kingdoms
Captain Edrin Ward is here, near the upper edge.
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Exalted Standing Tier
7. Low Exalted
~0.3%
• Individuals who influence outcomes
• Known beyond their home region
• Can resist divine pressure briefly
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8. Mid Exalted
~0.12%
• Strategic-level figures
• Their death would affect nations
• Monitored by gods
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9. High Exalted
~0.05%
• Near-legendary
• Alter regional balance alone
• Actively avoided by many entities
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Ascendant Standing Tier
10. Low Ascendant
~0.02%
• Power breaks conventional limits
• Standing becomes unstable to measure
• Often isolated or feared
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11. Mid Ascendant
~0.008%
• Bordering myth
• Systems begin to fail recording them
• Gods debate intervention
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12. High Ascendant
~0.003%
• No longer bound to normal causality
• Often vanish, transcend, or die catastrophically
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Mythic Standing Tier
13. Mythic
<0.005%
• Their existence becomes history
• Recorded in epics, not reports
• Direct divine confrontation possible
Most Mythic figures do not survive long.
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Irreducible / Anomalous Standing
14. Irreducible
<0.0001%
• Cannot be measured
• Cannot be categorized
• Systems flag errors or refuse output
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Beyond Standing
Unmeasurable
• Exists outside hierarchy
• Cannot be ranked
• Standing does not apply