"Shall I play your game and call that two questions?" Grandmaster Oswald chuckled before turning serious in the blink of an eye. He kept silent for a second with a vacant gaze in his eyes like he was arranging his thoughts.
"Both your questions still fall under one blanket… how power is defined in your world," he started. "You obviously know the early tier classifications—simply called Tiers 1 to 3. Titles are only given from Tier 4—Adept, though according to journal entries of ancient Exalted we have in our records, some do not consider Tier 4 as a titled tier."
Dale and a few others frowned at the latter part of Grandmaster Oswald's statement. They had never heard of any such records. Veronica had, but from Grandmaster Oswald's earlier words, she knew there was more, and he was about to reveal things she wasn't aware of. Perhaps she'd only gotten access to a part of the records.
"The true titled rank of your world begins at Tier 5—Master, after that is Tier 6—GrandMaster—"
