☪ Pʟᴏᴛ|Aʙᴏᴜᴛ ☪ ☪ Rᴜʟᴇs|Aʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀɴᴋs ☪ ☪ Rᴀɴᴋs|Sᴋᴇʟʟʏ ☪ Mʏ ᴄʜᴀʀɪᴇs ☪
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Rᴜʟᴇs
All of Tess's rules apply.
No Marry-Sues or Garry-Sues.
Absolutely no godmodding and powerplaying.
Keep it realistic.
You can roleplay someone that was actually real in the time of this roleplay, but keep in mind that their faith will not be the same as in reality.
You may not get the rank you wanted at the beginning but that doesn't mean you won't get it later on. The same goes that if you get the position when we start that won't mean that I don't have the power to take it away from you.
Drama is welcome.
Love is encouraged but keep in mind that this roleplay concentrates more on secret goals and plans. So you may manipulate and lie all you want ;)
I will add more later on.
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Aʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴀɴᴋs
☪ Sultan ☪
The Ottoman sultan was the absolute ruler of the territory. He was the head of the state and head of the government, and his words were the Law. He was the political, military, judicial, social, and religious leader. He was responsible only to Allah and God's Law, known as the Seriat (Sharia). The sultanate was strictly inheritated from father to son.
● Heirs were the male children that the sultan fathered. One of them would become sultan once their father is dead.
● Female children of the sultan were called sultanas, although they had great power they didn't hold a role in the sultanate.
☪ Divan ☪
Though the sultan was the "sublime monarch", he had a number of advisors and ministers. The most powerful of these were the viziers of the Divan, led by the Grand Vizier. The Divan was a council where the viziers met and debated the politics of the empire.
● Grand Vizier - Minister of the sultan and member of the imperial council. Vizier was the highest rank in the military/administrative hierarchy of the Empire; the chief minister (like a prime minister) was the Grand Vizier. At various times in history, the Grand (First) Vizier was often given full deputy powers by the sultan over the Empire. And under a weak or incompetent sultan, the Grand Vizier ruled the Empire.
◉ Viziers - Part of the Divan. They had a great role in the Ottoman Empire as they were the once forming the politics of the Empire. After the retiriment of the Grand Vizier one of them would take his place.
☪ Imperial Harem ☪
The image of a harem conjures visions of opulent surroundings filled with beautiful, sensuous women whose sole duty was to entertain an aging yet still lustful sheik or Sultan. In this period of history, harems played an important role in the governing of the Ottoman Empire. This most renown period was known as the Reign of Women, the Kadinlar Sultanati. The involvement of the harem women, and more specifically, the Valide Sultan (Sultan's Mother or Queen Mother) and the Sultan's favorites (favored harem women), in state politics, diminished the power and position of the Sultan.
● Valide Sultan - Valide Sultan was the title held by the mother of a ruling Sultan in the Ottoman Empire. The position was perhaps the most important position in the Ottoman Empire after the Sultan himself. As the mother to the Sultan, by Islamic tradition ("A mother's right is God's right"), the Valide Sultan would have a significant influence on the affairs of the Empire.
● Chief Harem Eunuch - The Kizlar Agha was the third highest-ranking officer of the empire, after the Sultan and the Grand Vizier (Chief Minister). He was the commander of the baltaci corps (or halberdiers - part of the imperial army). The Kizlar Agha led the new odalisque to the Sultan's bedchamber, and was the only "man" who could enter the harem should there have been any nocturnal emergencies. His duties were to protect the women, to provide and purchase the necessary odalisques for the harem, to oversee the promotion of the women (usually after the death of a higher-ranking kadin) and eunuchs. He acted as a witness for the Sultan's marriage, birth ceremonies, and arranged all the royal ceremonial events, such as circumcision parties, weddings, and fêtes. He also delivered sentence to harem women accused of crimes, taking the guilty women to the executioner to be placed into sacks and drowned in the Bosphorus which lay outside the Topkapi Palace.
● Concubines - They were usually bought from slave markets after being kidnapped or else sold by impoverished parents. All slaves that entered the harem were termed odalisques or "women of the court" - general servants in the harem. Odalisques were not usually presented to the Sultan. Those that were of extraordinary beauty and talent, were seen as potential concubines, and trained accordingly. oncubines could be considered an equivalent to the modern version of a "one night stand". The female hierarchy followed the pattern of odalisques (virgins), concubines ("one night stands"), ikbals (favorites), and kadins (favorites "wives").
◉ Ikbals - As mentioned above if a concubine was successful in birthing a male child, then she would become an ikbal (favorite) to the Sultan.
◉ Kadins - Kadin's were the Sultan's favorite women. Tradition allowed only four principal Kadins but unlimited number of concubines. Kadins were equivalent in rank to that of a legal wife, and were given apartments, slaves, and eunuchs. If her son is chosen to be the next Sultan she will become the Valide Sultan.
☪ Others ☪
You can be anything and anyone you want, just please ask me before doing so. So, if you want to be a servant I can assign you to the master... if you want to be a sibling of the Sultan ask me to make sure it's okay. If you want to be some real historical person from the Ottoman Empire ask me, or if you want to be someone completely different.. again, ask me! I don't bite :3
I apologize for the large text... I tried but failed to sum up.
