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Viscounts and Viscountesses are gentles who have ruled once over a kingdom. | Viscounts and Viscountesses are gentles who have ruled once over a kingdom. | ||
They are correctly addressed as "Your Excellency" and referred to in the third person as "Count/ess [personal name]." They may wear a crenellated coronet to indicate their rank. | They are correctly addressed as "Your Excellency" and referred to in the third person as "Count/ess [personal name]." They may wear a [[Crenellation|crenellated]] coronet to indicate their rank. | ||
It is not uncommon in An Tir for many counts and countesses to use other language variants of Count or Countess; [[Earl]] and [[Jarl]] are probably the two most popular alternates. | It is not uncommon in An Tir for many counts and countesses to use other language variants of Count or Countess; [[Earl]] and [[Jarl]] are probably the two most popular alternates. | ||
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Viscounts and Viscountesses are gentles who have ruled once over a kingdom.
They are correctly addressed as "Your Excellency" and referred to in the third person as "Count/ess [personal name]." They may wear a crenellated coronet to indicate their rank. It is not uncommon in An Tir for many counts and countesses to use other language variants of Count or Countess; Earl and Jarl are probably the two most popular alternates.
As former royalty, they have a Patent of Arms and are considered Royal Peers.