We should really come up with a better term for this - as somebody said during voting, “lower degree of relation” is a bit confusing when it means “is more closely related”. Any suggestions?

“More closely related?”

It needs to be a noun for cases like “Each Guest has a degree of relation”.

Line or degree of descent?

As in, Iepnw has a shorter line of descent than Bucky.

“degrees of separation” is better?

“Seniority”, as in primogeniture.  if A is more likely to inherit than B, then A is senior to B.  A has more seniority.

I like that. Lineal seniority, perhaps, for clarity.

spikebrennan:  that has the same problem with the numerical mismatch as “degree of relation”.  More seniority is a smaller number.

wait, how do ya fine all that out?

“lower disassociation” lower number, higher rank.

So… this is good for me, right?