Where the hell am I?

It seemed like the best question to ask first at the time. "You are on the planet Entakriss (eN-Ta-Kriss) twelve and a half niks from the trading city Turitz along the main road." Nodding my head like and idiot pretending I knew where or what that meant I asked my next question. "Why did you have your sword pointed at me when I woke up and why are you kneeling instead now?" As I was asking I saw her shudder again and it looked as though she wanted in that moment to make herself as small as one of the rocks on the road. " I had my sword pointed at you Honored Rogath becasue I had assumed you were a toldar, someone who was trying to enter the city without passing through one of the gates."

She stoped for a moment and looked like she was trying to think of a way to answer the rest of my question without actually answering it. "If you were a toldar I was going to capture you or kill you if you resisted." With a shudder in her voice she continued "When you explained who you were I realized the mistake and I am kneeling because it is the respect all Rogath are due."

If I was standing I would have fallen on my ass when I figured it out. Something so obvious I should have slapped myself for not noticing it when I chose the planet. They live with a different hierarchy and my position was above hers for some reason. Feeling like a complete idiot for not having such an obvious answer it led me to my next inquiry. "Who or what is a Rogath. That isn't a word I know from my planet"

"The Rogath are the chosen sent by God when a change is due. They are respected by many who understand who they are and are treated as equal to the noble lords sometimes even the kings. The Rogath are always gifted abilities beyond normal people by God when they are sent here so the people won't be able to question their identity when they announce themselves." She paused a moment and glanced to the road and then to me for a moment. When she noticed I was looking at her she snapped her eyes back to the ground again. "You seem to be afraid of me even when you are armed and I am not. why is that?" I asked.

Her answer only left me with more questions. "It is an offence to threaten someone above your own rank. Such offences are punishable by the offended person in accordance with the gap between their ranks if the offender is of significantly lower rank and already owned or serving then the offended has the right to seek the offenders master to claim compensation." I took a moment to think about what she was saying and try to understand it, then something she said hit me, 'owned'. "You said already owned. does that mean there are slaves on this planet?" I knew the answer before I asked but had to be sure. "Yes Rogath, there are many who are slaves here." I saw her shudder again when she answered.

Still trying to grasp how things worked here I decided I needed more information about the ranks she mentioned and how different ranks were viewed. I decided to ask. "If you put numbers on each of the ranks from 10 to 1 with 10 being the highest where would people fit in the ranks from highest to lowest?" After a moment of thinking she explained " At the top as #10 would be God, his angels and the people chosen as divine instruments. #9 Would be the kings, #8 The nobles and political officials. At #7 The merchants in the noble districts, #6 The merchants in the lower districts. #5 The craftsmen and warriors, #4 The commoners with no special talent or trade and. #3 Indentured servants, #2 Branded criminals #1 The exiles." I noticed she didn't mention slaves or the Rogath in her answer and asked her why.