Titles & citizenship

Everyone is a citizen of a city (Lumbridge, for now — it's the only free one), and every citizen has a feudal rank. Rank is bought with coins from Duke Horacio in Lumbridge Castle, and it gates three things: the heaviest metal armour you may wear, how many companions you can field, and your political power in the War.

Check your current rank, armour tier and next rank price with ::title. Check your citizenship with ::city.

The ladder

Rank	Cost	Melee armour	Ranged armour	Magic armour	Companions	War powers
Peasant	Free	Bronze & Iron	Leather	Basic robes	—	—
Commoner	10,000 gp	Steel	Studded	—	—	—
Squire	50,000 gp	Black	Snakeskin	—	—	Name shown in colour
Soldier	150,000 gp	Mithril & Adamant	Green d'hide	—	—	—
Knight	500,000 gp	Rune, granite, fremennik, void	Blue/red & blessed d'hide	Mystic, splitbark, enchanted, infinity	1	—
Lord	2,000,000 gp	All armour — Dragon, barrows, godwars, endgame sets	Black d'hide, karil's, armadyl	Ahrim's, ancestral	2	`::sendtroops`, `::summonboss`
Minister	10,000,000 gp	All armour	All armour	All armour	3	+ `::campaign`
King	50,000,000 gp	All armour	All armour	All armour	3	+ `::conquest`

From Squire up, your title displays in colour over your head — rank here is earned status, not a cosmetic you buy in a store.

All three combat styles climb the same ladder: each ranged/magic family is pegged to the metal rung of similar strength (studded ≈ steel, green d'hide ≈ adamant, mystic ≈ rune, black d'hide ≈ dragon). Untiered utility gear — monk robes, vestments, graceful, basic wizard robes — is free for everyone.

Why gate armour?

Rank is the only armour requirement. Armour has no skill-level requirements at all — a level-3 Lord can wear dragon, and a maxed Peasant cannot wear steel. (Weapons are the opposite: they keep their normal level requirements — 40 Attack for a rune scimitar — and are never rank-gated.) Your companions live under the same ceiling: they can't wear armour above your rank.

The armour gate is the server's core progression brake: you can't buy your way into rune on day one — you climb the ladder, and each rung both marks your standing and funds the realm (rank fees are a major coin sink). It also means seeing someone in dragon tells you something real: they're a Lord at minimum.

Rank and the War

Lords and above stop being just soldiers and become commanders: they pay to field troops, summon city bosses and (at Minister/King) launch campaigns and conquests — and take a 10% tithe from the pooled loot when their operation succeeds. See The War explained.