I'm writing up an essay on the Sanctified Orders of the Inquisition - a multi-faceted organistation within the Korachani empire whose independent orders oversee the policing of certain activities. Each order has a headquarters (Langue) in a particular city, with various strongholds and outposts across the empire. There's an order that fights Atramental taint, another that defends people and cities from dreamscapes, one that specialises in fortifications, another that destroys heathen idols, and so on.
I'm almost done with the main essay, and am now writing some appendices regarding what happened to the Orders in Reformed Empire of Sarastro. following the Sundering of the empire.
To get you up to speed, the Korachani empire was sundered following the aptly-named Sundering of the Empire that took place in 3705 RM (present year 4007 RM), into the High-empire of Korachan to the north of the Inner Sea and the Low-empire of Sarastro south of the Inner Sea.
During the schism, the Church of the Undying Machine was also sundered in two, with a new orthodox faith taking root in Sarastro (indeed, this was one of the main reasons for the sundering in the first place). The Sanctified Orders of the Inquisition were among the affected organisations, with many caught in the crossfire of civil war. Most were based in lands that remained loyal to the High-empire, so there was little long-term changes there, though others were based in lands that remained loyal to Sarastro or otherwise defected to Sarastro.
Given that Sarastro was quick to unburden itself of millennia of imperial oppression, it soon abandoned the Korachani tongue in favour of Sarastroan, so it stands to reason that Sarastro would come up with its own name (and possibly hierarchy and other factors) for the Orders that remained under its control.
It's even possible that, in the reorganisaton of the newly-independent state, the Sarastoran Orders might have been dissolved and become part of another agency/organisation.
I've been toying with some new names to reflect this though think I'm stuck in a rut thinking of the same naming structure, and can't really settle on anything so thought I'd throw it to you guys for your feedback.
Sarastro and the Reformed Sarasroan empire are vaguely inspired by the ottoman empire, though this is a lose analogy at best, though an arabic-sounding name or something with near eastern etymology might be cool, though its hardly a prerequisite. I did settle on using the word Enclave instead of Order for the individual facets of the organisatain, which isnt a literal name though symbolic of that the orders are.
Please vote for which you prefer and also feel free to give me your own suggestings in the comments below - I'd love to see what you come up with!