Talk:Black Scripture/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180827195443

What is the basis for saying that the Black Scriptures are not assigned a seat according to their relative combat power ranking?

From what I can see, it feels very likely that they are arranged in order of front-line fighting power, with variations accounting for significant level differences.

I think it's particularly significant that the Second Seat, Time Turbulance, appears very young and is using the equipment that seems most suitable for Clementine's fighting style, given that she is the former Ninth Seat. While the current Ninth Seat's equipment and fighting style seems an extremely poor match for Clementine.

In other words, Clementine was superceded because a much more talented user for her equipment grew (barely) old enough to hold a seat. Thus he? (honestly too young to even tell that) advanced to Second Seat and probably everyone else above Tenth Seat was demoted (i.e. current Ninth Seat was previously Eigth Seat).

The alternative methods of establishing seat order would seem to be seniority or equiped role. But both would seem to be immediately excluded by the case of the Second Seat (and the importance of equipping the First and Extra Seats with equipment optimal for their classes).

There is also the oddity of the Eleventh Seat being called the Seventh Seat by Zesshi in the anime. Not sure why that would be, maybe several recent promotions dropped her Seat rank and Zesshi simply hasn't adapted? But even assuming that Beaumarchais is recently elevated to a Seat, and thus she doesn't remember him being anything other than the Ninth Seat, Cedren looks like he's been in the Black Scripture for a while, and his seat should have changed almost as much as TLA's.

So I just don't know what's up with that.