Quote Originally Posted by lololink View Post
It seems that it indicate your position in the hierarchy, Z being the last letter, so Zos is the highest rank used only for the emperor, also yes, deus isn't a garlean rank.

so Zos ( Emperor )> Yae ( Prince ? )> van (General) > tol > sas.
now THIS idea is actually pretty nice. If we follow this logic the garlean title for crown prince would be something with X. Still we still don't know what Nero's position actually is/was. He seemed to be an odd mix of spymaster and head technician. Nan is most likely minister.