#grand has so much blatant favoritism toward her and it's such a conspicuously open slot now

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My take on the Inquisitor number is that it's completely arbitrary; I know there's a sourcebook somewhere that says it's based on initiation order but that's just flagrantly Not True, unless you expect me to believe that Trilla was the second one inducted. (Always take lore details where the source is just one obscure sourcebook with a HUGE grain of salt.)

It's not a rank thing either—no way does the Inquisitorius have any strictly defined hierarchy, because that's antithetical to the whole point, Palps wants them squabbling with each other so they don't become a threat. Reva (the youngest, who definitely didn't get initiated as a full Inquisitor at twelve years old and yet has the super low number of Third) obviously doesn't have authority over Fifth.

So my point is: the numbers mean nothing, they're completely arbitrary and not assigned in order, but the Grand Inquisitor doesn't tell THEM whether or not they mean anything. Does having a lower number indicate higher status? Probably not...unless? They're always glancing at each other and wondering and driving knives into each others' backs about it.

And that's the point, because the overall management style of the Inquisitorius is just summed up perfectly by that cage fight in Barriss's first episode: the Sith turning a bunch of captive surviving Jedi against each other and making them fight each other to earn the right to keep living on their terms.