Mourtatoi #83658476

members (measured 15 Oct 2026, 19:42 UTC)

8 August 2026

created (per Roblox API)

11 August 2026

first measured by this register

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Description

Psedo-Kodinos asserts that they fought on foot as archers (supported by the “Chronicon Tarvisinum”) and were commanded by the “Stratopedarches of the Mourtatoi”. The word “Mourtatoi" itself ought to derive from the Arabo-Turkish word “murtedd”, ”murtat” meaning “apostate” or “renegade” and it has generally been thought that the Mourtatoi were therefore Christianized Turks. However, a passage in the “Advice for and Overseas Passage” (a treatise written around 1330 by a Latin self-described “friar preacher” for the purpose of urging the King of France Philip VI of Valois (1328-50) to undertake a crusade) makes a slight revision of this view: “They are descendants of Turks by one parent and of Greeks by the other [...]so one can say of their origin that on one side they are of Satan and on the other of the Devil [...]”. Although there are Mourtatoi who were place guards, they are not exclusively serving in the imperial palace.

Written by the group; not a statement by this register.

Membership history

Growth

4 measurements spanning 65 days, net +8. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”.

Measurement log — every members count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Members	Change
15 Oct 2026, 19:42	9	-1
11 Oct 2026, 20:59	10	-2
2 Sept 2026, 20:18	12	+11
11 Aug 2026, 16:01	1	first reading

Ownership

Owned by Lord_Phil (@Lord_PhiI) as measured.

Groups seen changing owner — the largest ever handed over and the most recent — are on the ownership transfers board.

Members we’ve seen

Lord_Phil (@Lord_PhiI) — Basileus (rank 254)

@Nin_o — First Mourtatos (rank 4)

PatroclusofPelion (@Iaukhos) — Mourtatos Archer (rank 3)

@grimvaiss — Apprentice (rank 1)

A sample — only members this register has independently measured, highest rank first. Not the full roster.

Rank structure

High Command2

Stratopedarchēs 1

First Mourtatos1

Mourtatos Archer3

empty12

Apprentice5

Guest0

Roles and per-rank member counts as Roblox reports them (rank 0 = guest … 255 = owner).

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Open data

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