Persian Caste and Ranks

The Persian Caste System
"'As a limbless torso is a snake, and a headless snake useless; so too the arms and legs are paralyzed and self-maiming without direction.'""- Parable of the Headless Snake"There is no formal hierarchy of the castes themselves. While each have their own ladder of ascendancy, none are officially enforced, and differ from Veda to Veda. In terms of the castes as a whole, it is explained that while the Sultanate may have more direct power to enforce law, and the Sanghora are entrusted with the law's interpretation, neither the Caste of Creation nor the Caste of War are considered inferior.

Sanghora and the Caste of Monastics
As the caste of divine mystics, the Sanghora are strategists, philosophers, religious interpreters and lawmakers of the Persian Mandala. More than any other, they receive strenuous and incomprehensibly complex educations in nearly every 'intellectual' field.

Purpose: devise strategies, craft messages and interpretations for distribution, 'know everything,' direct the sultanate

[Dervishes, Sanghors, Shura]

Sultans and the Caste of Implementation
Purpose: know and enforce law, participate in politics, direct the mubarizun

[Consols, emissaries, downsultans, Caliphs

Dignitaries

Mugholra - merchants. negotiate land and trade bargains, lead tithe councils]

Mubarizun and the Caste of War
The Caste of War is instructed with the precise application of Persian military doctrine. While overseen by the Sultanate, their capacity to restrict Mubarizun strategy is limited to cases of direct infringement of the Persian Laws of Human Dignity. Barring that, Overwatch maintains full authority in the fields of battle.

Infiltrators: Professional ensigns, infiltrators

Prerequisites: Artifact lore 8, Stealth 10, Cunning 8, Firearms 8

Mubarizun: 

Downwatch: Generals on the field.

Overwatch: Generals of field generations, creates attack plans and operation procedures.

Artificers and the Caste of Creation
Architects construct the machinery, palaces, barracks, and other general inventions as required. Purpose: design new things, provide for all and self