Ayevia

Can't wait for these to be in action, like kitten said! +200000

A bird lands in front of you, in it's beak it carries a rolled parchment with a green and yellow string tying it secure. Upon further inspection, you realize that the package contains of a MAP, and a note that states: "Thank you for your interest in the Bards' Guild. I would like to meet with you personally to talk further about the guild. Please pay a visit to the Guild hall any time it is convenient for you. Safe travels."

A bird lands in front of you, in it's beak it carries a rolled parchment with a green and yellow string tying it secure. Upon further inspection, you realize that the package contains of a MAP, and a note that states: "Thank you for your interest in the Bards' Guild. I would like to meet with you personally to talk further about the guild. Please pay a visit to the Guild hall any time it is convenient for you. Safe travels."

A bird lands in front of you, in it's beak it carries a rolled parchment with a green and yellow string tying it secure. Upon further inspection, you realize that the package contains of a MAP, and a note that states: "Thank you for your interest in the Bards' Guild. I would like to meet with you personally to talk further about the guild. Please pay a visit to the Guild hall any time it is convenient for you. Safe travels."

A bird lands in front of you, in it's beak it carries a rolled parchment with a green and yellow string tying it secure. Upon further inspection, you realize that the package contains of a MAP, and a note that states: "Thank you for your interest in the Bards' Guild. I would like to meet with you personally to talk further about the guild. Please pay a visit to the Guild hall any time it is convenient for you. Safe travels."

As Titania flips through the parchments of applications stacked above one another, this specific application catches her eyes. Upon reading the first words written in the parchment by what she can only assume is an illiterate motherfuc- person, her nose crinkles in slight disgust before she crumbles the said parchment and discards it in the trash. (ily 2 pok <3)

The Bards’ Guild “Quill supra laminae” “Trees are amongst us: some of nations, some of families, and some of.. nature. In common, they all blossom and fruit and shed and rest. They house creatures, of some sort, and sanguine nectar in the core of their well intent. For the nation, their coffers be the nectar. For the family, it be their blood. For the nature, its nectar is pure. The branches reach out, in our dear trees. The nation has its guilds and groups, with the family its ancestry, and the tree? Mere sticks. The fruit.. is where our trees diverge. One willow may weep its bitter ichor, and another sycamore its sour cherries. Yet, as of late, nations have bore little fruit of culture. The families refuse to let what fruit their branches hold fall. And nature? Well, it’s not apples this be writ for. Nay, friends. It be our culture. We are all of the same thicket.. and, as nature, in want of growth. Yet, there has been little fertile ground for our nimble tendrils to reach out and embrace Enlightenment! That very light which not only will see joy through, but our existence in itself. For too long has the darkness blighted the people: short wonder it has only been the glint of a crown’s ruby, or a blade’s gleam that had caught their attention.” It is our livelihood, and pleasure, as Bards of Enlightenment, to reach our branches further - enough to bask in the glory of open day, beyond what has been a dark age. It be Sol, and its nightly friends, which direct our path - by the faith of Urguan we reside within. The parallel shared is so close, it is more simpler to see us Bards as one to the Dwarves. Do not mistake this for blind loyalty, however. Us Bards only have our Curator as our superior: not even the King of the Urguan may dictate what is writ of them, or anyone, or anything - for that matter. It is the constitution we embody, and which allows us our rights - of arts, be they dramatic or fine, and literature. Music completes a ‘trinity’ of activity the Bards are expected to partake and progress upon. It is oft one strand of this trinity which a typical Bard would specialise upon (Arts, literature, or music). It is our Curator who assigns our overall vision, which Titania Hawksong currently holds the septum for. The route for Enlightenment is open for all, who reside in our realm. The Intelligentsia of Vailor, us Bards are not just the orators of tales and opera, but of the people themselves. To whom it may concern, the guild means to accept those well-versed in the ways of the nation they serve under, and those who abide by its laws. Thus, may their knowledge be prodded, in addition to receiving a collation of their general profile. The Intelligentsia are distinguished as a group of their own, for reason - of merit and respect - and this calls for individuals capable of being the greatest thinkers and visionaries Vailor has seen. ============================================== Deliver, by bird or otherwise, the following credentials and responses: those accepted will receive response from either the Co-Curator or the Curator themselves. If ye may not even wish to do this, how may ye muster the burdens of entire novels or play productions.. or even a single great work of sculpting? ============================================== Application If you'd rather do this in-game, please PM Ayevia. I) Name (in brackets, include ign): II) Race: III) Place of Origin: IV) Intention of desired strand, of the trinity (Arts, Literature, Music) for specialism: V) Reasoning in becoming of the Bards: VI) Potential projects you may aspire to do: ============================================== To those who have shown the will to become Bards, it is not only the velvet pouch of Mina they are to expect - but to be among the first to witness and pursue what wars have been fought for, and empires risen and fallen. The peace of a book. The joy of a tale. The advancement of a nation. You are now of the masons of culture, pride and Enlightenment.. and chisel away at governments, people and mortar all the same. From all three of them emerge great works, and it is your name bound in the scrolls of history (which even you writ!) which is the greatest reward for what service you will have. ============================================== THE MAP TO THE BARDS' GUILD Do not forget: Quill supra laminae.