Grade Guide for my stories

Grades, tiers, ranks. All of them are used to evaluate the value of threat of an item, person or enemy.

Monster Ranks:

Monsters are categorized in ranks from F up to S. There are some exceptions for monsters in which they might get S+ rank threat. Overall evaluation rank might increase if the monsters are in group or when the stampede occurs.

Classes:

Every intelligent humanoid have a class divided in tiers.

This types of classes are:

- Low Tier – everyone can have it

- Mid Tier – person needs to commit time and practices to achieve it, most of the adults achieved them

- High Tier – person is at the peak of his own abilities, not possible for the most of people to achieve

- Unique-Tier – person gets blessing from Divine Creature that appreciated his/her efforts

To get Divine Creature's attention, one must commit to his/her own beliefs and live by them. Only then one is able to receive the blessing and become transcendent.

Abilities:

Skills, abilities and other traits learned by person through the life.

There are few grades for usage of skills:

- Beginner – complete newbie

- Novice – know the basics

- Trained – understand the basics and know how to effectively use them

- Proficient – understand the skill and is able to make the most of them, hard to achieve for the most of people

- Master – stage that sometimes require life-long commitment for the skill to be able to know everything about it

- Unique – skills granted by getting a blessing, they are beyond mankind ability to understand how they work

Weapons & Armor

There are few types of grade evaluations for the equipment:

- Inferior – made by novice blacksmith,

- Normal – made by knowledgeable blacksmith

- Superior – made by masters/normal grade enhanced with materials from monsters etc.

- Artifacts – made by ancient civilizations/kingdom-treasure-class blacksmith

Artifacts:

They can be divided into two types:

- Nowadays Artifacts

- Ancient Artifacts

Nowadays artifacts are made by scholars and researchers all around the world.

Ancient artifacts are leftovers or ancient civilizations that once ruled the world, they are distinguished from nowadays ones in evaluation by adding "+" to them.