2018-04-09T06:04:44Z

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BlackBough

2018-02-25T15:51:29Z

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<center>[[File:YsteriaFlag.png|The Black Bough]]</center>

<center>Est. ~1000 Dissolved. ~1714</center>

=Hierarchy=
*Lord of the lodge
*The Left hand
*The Right hand
*Master of X (eg: master of the hunt; master of the aviary, etc)
*Adept
*Journeyman
*Applicant

Advancement in the Black Bough came in the form of practical skill assessment, and consideration by the master of the relevant field, who has the power to elevate someone in the ranks from Applicant, to Adept. To be considered to be a master, the process becomes more involved with the upper hierarchy. A master may choose someone to nominate for the position of master (often, this comes with said master extending a position of 'apprenticeship' to the potential master-to-be) then passes their recommendation to the left and right hand, who then, if they are satisfied pass it to the lord for final arbitration. Success generally results in direct promotion to master, or assignment to another master to prepare them for their new role. Failure naturally, results in nothing. That is not to say that there was only one chance at advancement, one may be recommended many times if potential is seen in them, and failed applicants are often given constructive advice on how to improve themselves to overcome the problems that denied them this time.

The divisions are:
*The Aviary
*The Huntsmen
*The Trainers

==Joining==
The Black Bough takes on people with practical skills (via assessment), or by recommendation of another member of at least Journeyman status (with higher rank lending more credence to the recommendation). Anyone is free to apply, but many do not succeed.

Applicants are taken in groups in the spring months, where they are signed in to the guild roster and given a cloak with the guilds symbol embroidered on to it. They are presented as a group to the Lord and the Hands, with one of the masters giving them their induction speech and assigning their first duties. It is usually during this time that the Lord and the Hands will spot and make note of anyone with potential.

Applicants are generally assigned to a group, shadowing journeymen to learn their allotted trade, with all the being assigned busy work that is implied by being at the bottom of the figurative ladder.

=Life in the Guild=
The Black Bough expects much from its members, so life can be challenging and to outsiders, seem somewhat merciless. While it is true to a degree, the guild takes care of its own - members with sickly family can expect to find a huntsman appearing at their door with just the right medicinal herbs fetched from the wilds. Bereavements are taken care of with sensitivity and respect, and woe betide those who would harm a member of the Black Bough. The guild holds many celebrations and festivals (and being hunters and trackers, often have some of the best food available), and encourages respect and camaraderie, along with encouraging sharing and expanding of skills - everyone should excel at their main trade, but more skills means more opportunities, and a better name for the guild overall.
The trade-off for the opportunities and care of the guild is that you are expected to work hard, and aspire to excellence in upholding the name of the guild.

==Rules==
*Represent the Lord, and the guild responsibly - you are the means by which people will measure, and consider asking for our service
*Show loyalty to your fellow guildsmen, we triumph or fall together
*Aspire to excellence in your craft

=History=
The Black Bough was a guild of hunters, trackers, trainers of beasts great and small. Their jobs primarily came from hunting, but many other professions were represented beyond simple hunters and trackers - messenger birds were raised and trained by them, a popular means of communication at the time, to give one example. Dog trainers, horse breakers, and handlers of much more exotic animals besides, the expertise of the black bough made them to go-to name if one had an animal (especially an exotic or particularly intelligent and difficult specimen) that needed training. Havelock was a shrewd man, and not necessarily heart-warming or friendly, but he was respected, and fair in his judgment.
The Black Bough came to exist as much because Havelock saw an opportunity for a business not being utilised, as the indulgence of a personal interest. Being the man he was, it was not difficult to draw people of like mind to him, in short time creating a lodge where all manner of hunters and those who worked with animals. The guild's base of operations is somewhat removed from society, closer to woods than to anything else, so many people felt ill at ease visiting such a curiously isolated place, many of them choosing to deal with the guild's satellite station in the nearby settlement than go to the woods.

The following information should be treated as information for the curious, from an '''out of character''' context. Those wishing to know about Havelock and the fate of him and his people should contact the staff.

There was no great cataclysm as Havelock became a virtuoso, no terrible tearing of society, pulled up by its roots and destroyed. The change was slower, more insidious and creeping than that, signs of ill omen stealthily appearing in the lives of people until it was too late to push them back. Crops failed; animals turned on their owners and became feral and demented as a sickly red moon hung in the sky, its shape akin to a half-lidded eye as the malignant light glinted on the populace at night. As the signs worsened, so too did the people, neighbor turning against neighbor as the paranoid and the maddened alike crumpled and they killed each other in the streets, outsiders burned on pyres, or ran down by dogs and men astride crazed horses. These mounted men and their hounds, once the subjects of Havelock the Maestro, finally lost their minds and souls and became the agents of Havelock the virtuoso, racing forth from the darkest places of the world at the turning from autumn to winter, riding down whichever poor soul is unfortunate enough to be out at night, and semblance of the people they had been now vanished, ravenous specters and little more.

=Traditions and Relevant Lore=

The tradition of the hunt is, exactly as it sounds, a tradition of going out in the waning months of the year to hunt animals as they migrate away, or start to prepare for winter. The cold, harsh months require a good stock of food, so the guild sends out its hunters and their hounds to bring back whatever they can find, to add to the supplies stocked over the year. Food is harder to find at this time of year, so it is both a survival exercise, and an opportunity for hunters to show off their skill and cunning by coming back with a large volume of food, or an especially exotic or good quality yield. Post-hunt, there a meal for the guild, and drinking and songs as they welcome in the harsher months.
This tradition still exists today, although virtually no one realises it, given the fate of the guild and the lack of information about it...

BlackBough

2018-02-25T15:47:36Z

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<center>[[File:YsteriaFlag.png|The Black Bough]]</center>

<center>Placeholder</center>

=Hierarchy=
*Lord of the lodge
*The Left hand
*The Right hand
*Master of X (eg: master of the hunt; master of the aviary, etc)
*Adept
*Journeyman
*Applicant

Advancement in the Black Bough came in the form of practical skill assessment, and consideration by the master of the relevant field, who has the power to elevate someone in the ranks from Applicant, to Adept. To be considered to be a master, the process becomes more involved with the upper hierarchy. A master may choose someone to nominate for the position of master (often, this comes with said master extending a position of 'apprenticeship' to the potential master-to-be) then passes their recommendation to the left and right hand, who then, if they are satisfied pass it to the lord for final arbitration. Success generally results in direct promotion to master, or assignment to another master to prepare them for their new role. Failure naturally, results in nothing. That is not to say that there was only one chance at advancement, one may be recommended many times if potential is seen in them, and failed applicants are often given constructive advice on how to improve themselves to overcome the problems that denied them this time.

The divisions are:
*The Aviary
*The Huntsmen
*The Trainers

==Joining==
The Black Bough takes on people with practical skills (via assessment), or by recommendation of another member of at least Journeyman status (with higher rank lending more credence to the recommendation). Anyone is free to apply, but many do not succeed.

Applicants are taken in groups in the spring months, where they are signed in to the guild roster and given a cloak with the guilds symbol embroidered on to it. They are presented as a group to the Lord and the Hands, with one of the masters giving them their induction speech and assigning their first duties. It is usually during this time that the Lord and the Hands will spot and make note of anyone with potential.

Applicants are generally assigned to a group, shadowing journeymen to learn their allotted trade, with all the being assigned busy work that is implied by being at the bottom of the figurative ladder.

=Life in the Guild=
The Black Bough expects much from its members, so life can be challenging and to outsiders, seem somewhat merciless. While it is true to a degree, the guild takes care of its own - members with sickly family can expect to find a huntsman appearing at their door with just the right medicinal herbs fetched from the wilds. Bereavements are taken care of with sensitivity and respect, and woe betide those who would harm a member of the Black Bough. The guild holds many celebrations and festivals (and being hunters and trackers, often have some of the best food available), and encourages respect and camaraderie, along with encouraging sharing and expanding of skills - everyone should excel at their main trade, but more skills means more opportunities, and a better name for the guild overall.
The trade-off for the opportunities and care of the guild is that you are expected to work hard, and aspire to excellence in upholding the name of the guild.

==Rules==
*Represent the Lord, and the guild responsibly - you are the means by which people will measure, and consider asking for our service
*Show loyalty to your fellow guildsmen, we triumph or fall together
*Aspire to excellence in your craft

=History=
The Black Bough was a guild of hunters, trackers, trainers of beasts great and small. Their jobs primarily came from hunting, but many other professions were represented beyond simple hunters and trackers - messenger birds were raised and trained by them, a popular means of communication at the time, to give one example. Dog trainers, horse breakers, and handlers of much more exotic animals besides, the expertise of the black bough made them to go-to name if one had an animal (especially an exotic or particularly intelligent and difficult specimen) that needed training. Havelock was a shrewd man, and not necessarily heart-warming or friendly, but he was respected, and fair in his judgment.
The Black Bough came to exist as much because Havelock saw an opportunity for a business not being utilised, as the indulgence of a personal interest. Being the man he was, it was not difficult to draw people of like mind to him, in short time creating a lodge where all manner of hunters and those who worked with animals. The guild's base of operations is somewhat removed from society, closer to woods than to anything else, so many people felt ill at ease visiting such a curiously isolated place, many of them choosing to deal with the guild's satellite station in the nearby settlement than go to the woods.

The following information should be treated as information for the curious, from an '''out of character''' context. Those wishing to know about Havelock and the fate of him and his people should contact the staff.

There was no great cataclysm as Havelock became a virtuoso, no terrible tearing of society, pulled up by its roots and destroyed. The change was slower, more insidious and creeping than that, signs of ill omen stealthily appearing in the lives of people until it was too late to push them back. Crops failed; animals turned on their owners and became feral and demented as a sickly red moon hung in the sky, its shape akin to a half-lidded eye as the malignant light glinted on the populace at night. As the signs worsened, so too did the people, neighbor turning against neighbor as the paranoid and the maddened alike crumpled and they killed each other in the streets, outsiders burned on pyres, or ran down by dogs and men astride crazed horses. These mounted men and their hounds, once the subjects of Havelock the Maestro, finally lost their minds and souls and became the agents of Havelock the virtuoso, racing forth from the darkest places of the world at the turning from autumn to winter, riding down whichever poor soul is unfortunate enough to be out at night, and semblance of the people they had been now vanished, ravenous specters and little more.

=Traditions and Relevant Lore=

The tradition of the hunt is, exactly as it sounds, a tradition of going out in the waning months of the year to hunt animals as they migrate away, or start to prepare for winter. The cold, harsh months require a good stock of food, so the guild sends out its hunters and their hounds to bring back whatever they can find, to add to the supplies stocked over the year. Food is harder to find at this time of year, so it is both a survival exercise, and an opportunity for hunters to show off their skill and cunning by coming back with a large volume of food, or an especially exotic or good quality yield. Post-hunt, there a meal for the guild, and drinking and songs as they welcome in the harsher months.
This tradition still exists today, although virtually no one realises it, given the fate of the guild and the lack of information about it...

Havelock

2018-01-31T23:12:30Z

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[[file:havelock.jpg|center]]
Title: Of Ill Omen

=Powers and Abilities=

'''Aura'''
Havelock emanates a mien of dread and foreboding, rattling the morale of anyone in his presence. The effect is more insidious than that, though - anyone in Havelock's presence is stricken by a blighted fate. A dodged sword that should have missed lands a cruel blow; a minor ailment intensifies to a debilitating sickness as Doom is made manifest. Success is minimalised, and failure is exaggerated while in the presence of Havelock.

'''Method:''' Havelock tampers with other rolls, rather than creating them himself for this effect, so the specifics of this will depend on the rp in question. Anyone in the same real room as Havelock is subject to this effect unless he decides otherwise.

'''The Mark of ill omen'''
Havelock uses supernatural power to brand a person with the mark of ill omen, a stain on their being that is all but invisible but to the most perceptive or powerful of people - it is unlikely anyone below the standing of a maestro can detect the mark. Once marked, the target is stricken by ill omen where ever they go - animals will shy away from, or attack them; people will inherently distrust the marked person as well, refusing them shelter or sustenance. Any act taken as suspicious or dangerous will be perceived significantly worse, and the marked may be chased from civilised places as a product - there is no rest while so marked.

'''Method:''' This is a story-based ability, so generally it will be decided out of character if someone wants their character to be subjected to such a potentially long-term effect. Havelock's attention falls most prominently on people who are already examples of remarkable good or bad fortune/omens, and it's these people who typically receive the mark.

=Life as a Maestro=
Havelock is originally from (placeholder), and supervised a guild named the Black Bough. Hunters, trackers, trainers of beasts great and small - all of these professions worked under his careful attention. Havelock was a shrewd man, and not necessarily heart-warming or friendly, but he was respected, and fair in his judgment. He was widely known as an excellent huntsman and trainer of animals, chief among his achievements being a large canine he named Bharzas, a beast of a mysterious breed with a remarkable intellect - some say Bharzas was the last of some great wolf-like breed that died out a long time ago.

=Virtuoso, pre-monarchy=

The following information, scarce as it is, is what history has to say about Havelock and the fall of the populace was under his influence:
Life carried on as normal for a time, and while other places may have had more immediate or fantastically debuted problems, Havelock and his people seemed largely unaffected. Eventually though, the people became xenophobic and hostile, and over time, visitors and traders started to avoid stopping there. In time, this reluctance turned to aversion, as the people became violent, maddened, and the forests that surrounded Havelock's seat of power became saturated with fell creatures of unnatural cunning and malice, the place considered cursed, an ill omen to travel towards, or even near. Few have visited since the arrival of the Virtuoso's, so whether there is anything worth seeing now, or if the people even still live, is an unknown. Few are willing to risk the attention of the hounds and riders that lurk in spectral mist beyond the dense trees, and only the brave know that the riders patrol at all, for they do not go beyond the boundaries of their territory except during the event commonly known as the Hounding.

The following information should be treated as information for the curious, from an '''out of character context'''. Those wishing to know about Havelock and the fate of him and his people should contact the staff.
There was no great cataclysm as Havelock became a virtuoso, no terrible tearing of society, pulled up by its roots and destroyed. The change was slower, more insidious and creeping than that, signs of ill omen stealthily appearing in the lives of people until it was too late to push them back. Crops failed; animals turned on their owners and became feral and demented as a sickly red moon hung in the sky, its shape akin to a half-lidded eye as the malignant light glinted on the populace at night. As the signs worsened, so too did the people, neighbor turning against neighbor as the paranoid and the maddened alike crumpled and they killed each other in the streets, outsiders burned on pyres, or ran down by dogs and men astride crazed horses. These mounted men and their hounds, once the subjects of Havelock the Maestro, finally lost their minds and souls and became the agents of Havelock the virtuoso, racing forth from the darkest places of the world at the turning from autumn to winter, riding down whichever poor soul is unfortunate enough to be out at night, and semblance of the people they had been now vanished, ravenous specters and little more.

Main Page

2018-01-31T17:31:32Z

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Skald Song is a play-by-post medieval sword and sorcery role-play set in an original world based around the fine arts.

=Rules=
[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/TOS On Terms of Service]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Play_Rules On Playing]

=Getting Started=

[[How-to]] - some useful information on various actions in chat.

==Glossary==
There are many words and terms in the world of The Tapestry that you will run into. Here's a handy reference to what they mean or refer to.

'''Comprimaro/a''' - Partner. This is a title given to someone perceived as being the significant other of the Prince or Princess.

'''Doge / Duce''' - Title for the male/female leader of a guild that holds a region and their spouse. They may go by additional titles cultural to their region.

'''Maestro''' - Grand Master. This is in reference to the original founding guild leaders anointed by The Skald. They are absolute masters in their fields and are capable of great power.

'''Nobile''' - Leaders of guilds that do not hold regions. This term/rank is given to the heirs of any guild as well. Lowest titled nobility.

'''Oratorio''' - The religious text of The Tapestry.

'''Prima Donna ''' - Queen

'''Primo/a Figlio/a''' - Prince / Princess

'''Primo Uomo''' - King

'''Skaldborne/Strangers''' - People not native to The Tapestry.

'''Virtuoso''' - God/dess. These are corrupted founding guild leaders, who took to the power and created cults instead. They consider themselves ''almost'' equal to The Skald and are doing the creator's bidding. They aren't wrong, but they aren't doing it the way The Skald intended originally.

==Native or Not?==
Natives were born and raised in The Tapestry and it is all they have ever known, generally speaking. They are not at all surprised by the arrival of beings from other places. It is, after all, part of their oldest beliefs that the creator of the world has hand picked these arrivals. Although their comfort level with a species they haven't seen before is something best left to the player to decide. New arrivals that were already a part of a guild in their former world, we encourage you to reach out to the guild of preference and let them know, especially if you're interested in pursuing that path. The guild leaders will be more than likely happy to add you to their rosters, or may choose to remain disenfranchised despite knowing that the power of a guild can help them go far in life.

*Native characters start off with more gold than non-natives.
*If a slot is available, native characters can start with title.

Non-native characters, also referred to as '''''Skaldborne''''' or '''''Strangers,''''' find themselves in a strange land and generally in even stranger circumstances. The way they arrive into the world is up to the player's descriptive discretion, but it is encouraged that their characters should arrive with some vague and varied amounts of amnesia and may or may not lack the clothes on their back. Think of it like a floating scale, where the most extreme cases are usually full blown amnesia and on the other end they retain all their memories, but are never quite sure how they got to The Tapestry.

Because of this constant influx of Skaldborne, the natives of The Tapestry leave wrapped little packages with a change of clothes, a waxed map to the nearest settlement, and a small amount of gold to get them started. They are usually highly encouraged to join a guild for ease in assimilation into the world, plus the guilds would get quite the reputation if one of the Skaldborne proves themselves and becomes a clear representation a champion chosen by The Skald.

*Skaldborne characters will start off with a lesser amount of gold than natives, but will have the 'care package' already in their inventory.
*You can also opt to play a non-native that has been around long enough to adapt.

==OOC Timeline==
This is a general overview of the history of the world, where large scale events and changes will be recorded as they happen through RP. This way, new members can effectively create characters that are native and have access to all information they may need for that character's knowledge at a glance.

For a more detailed timeline for a region, see that region's page.

2017 - Meizarae released. 
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1967 - Artificial Limbs using Copper Heart's puppetry mechanics first use. 
| 
1717 - Virtuosos defeated. Monarchy established. 
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1700 - Maestros become corrupted, 'Virtuoso' coined. Chanson Isole'e breaks ground. 
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1050 - First Skaldborne appear. 
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1000 - The Skald visits future site of Inizio D'Oro, selects Maestros, who found the first Guilds. 
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0 - The Tapestry is brought to life

=The "Tapestry"=
The Tapestry is what the natives call their world, believing that they are just one big masterpiece on an unseen canvas. As such there are no true names of continents, with masses of land/regions simply being referred to by the main city that inhabits them. There is a distinct illusion of organized peace with the leaders of regions bowing in unison to a high king, but there is strife in many forms political or otherwise. And yet their god, The Skald, loves every minute of it.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Events Events]

==Places==
[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Inizio_D%27Oro Inizio D'Oro (Capital)]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Chanson_Isole%27e Chanson Isole'e]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Uhrwerkstadt Uhrwerkstadt]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Otkrytoye_Polotno Otkrytoye Polotno]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Prasino_Kolaz Prasino Kolaz]

==Lore==
The religious text of The Tapestry is called the '''Oratorio''', a series of chants that explain the very basics of the world's functions and has been around since early creation. While other religions can and do exist across the land, The Oratorio is 'true', whether its people really believe it or not.
It is hard to prove what only a handful have seen many years ago.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/The_Oratorio The Oratorio]

===Maestros and Virtuosos WIP===
The maestros were gifted with a greater range of power and insights that left them linked to the Great Skald in ways that tormented them. Coupled with an immortal life, the ability to see every string that intertwined in the bundle, no longer bemused with the excited desparation of seeking a needle in a haystack. When they were regular painted citizens of the Tapestry there was a facination and thrill of the future, the unknown, but that was gone now.

Their duties were both guidance and strife-making, which as time passed their colors bled and muddled until they saw little point to guide. The players on stage were weak and unmotivated, their ends were all the same. Cycled, returning to do much of the same in another shape. The Skald granted them the freedom to push harder, to change the key of the performance and so each of the maestros shifted, some abruptly without warning and some seemingly descending into a madness they controlled.

It was time for the world to make their own coveted heroes.

[[Meizarae]] - [[Havelock]] - Bjarke the Grizzled

===Skaldic Artifacts WIP===
A full suit of armor and an array of weaponry possessing fragmented power believed to have been directly from The Great Skald. Scattered after the initial battle as a memorial gift from the newly instituted monarchy to the guilds that took part in vanquishing the Virtuosos. The knowledge about these artifacts is very slim, with assumption being that they are powerful and noble in nature in any book mentioning them. This may not be the case in reality.

Most of the items are rudimentary, named as a part of one skaldborne or another's tradition to do so, and it is not clear when the items that have gained power did.

[[File:oldcirclet.png|100px|Gives the wearer random foresight, at the price of paranoia.]] [[File:Threadring.png|100px|Guides the wearer via golden thread to the next point of their story.]] [[File:Romansling.png|100px|If it can fit, it can sling. Aerodynamics be damned!]][[File:Alek_sword_ss.jpg|100px| A blade against which no defense can stand]]

Others, considered permanently lost OOC: Shield, Chestpiece

==Politics and Guilds==
The political theater of The Tapestry is always on the brink of a shift despite the illusion of peace carried by its people. Guilds are a major part of the world of the Tapestry. They can help your character rise in rank and power, as well as open many doors to quests and opportunities.

In character they are as potent as family ties / clans but have leniency in that they do not have to operate by bloodline.

'''Profile Perks to Guilds'''
*Members of guilds will have the banner displayed in their profiles, and titles changed accordingly if they hold power within the guild.
*Guilds will have their own slot on the forum to use as they see fit, as well as a 'group' that will color member's names in the online list.
*Leaders of guilds will gain a lump sum of gold: 5k for basic guilds, 10k for region-holding guilds.

'''Joining a Guild'''

If you feel your character would be a good fit for a guild, or that they would be interested in joining it, seek out a representative of the guild. Depending on the guild's structure that may be all you need to do.

Have a character that is a 'native' and you would like them to already be part of the guild? Talk to the leader OOCly to confirm. Make sure you save yourselves both time and hassle and check to make sure that the history of the guild can align with your character's simply enough (ie, timelines).

[[File:Battalgiaflag.png|100px|link=Battaglia|Battaglia Militancy]][[File:Handelsgilde.png|100px|link=Handelsgilde|Handelsgilde]][[File:Elysiumflag.png|100px|link=Elysium|Elysium]][[File:ColdhavenPack.png|100px|link=ColdhavenPack|Coldhaven Pack]][[File:Candidature9.png|100px|link=Candidature9|Candidature 9]]

Archive of Past Guilds

[[File:CopperHeartflag.png|100px|link=CopperHeart|Copper Heart]][[File:StoneHeartflag.png|100px|link=StoneHeart|Stone Heart]][[File:YsteriaFlag.png|100px|link=Ysteria|Ysteria]]

'''Starting a Guild'''
To create a guild you must:
*Have a specialty
*Have 5 members (including yourself)
*Have the approval of where you would like to be located.

Specialties do not have to be unique, to encourage rivalries.

You will have control on how it is run in terms of how you initiate or promote people and the rules within.

'''Becoming a Head Guild'''

In each territory there can be many guilds, but only one has the political weight to be considered in charge of the territory as a whole. To become the head guild of a territory one of two things need to happen:
*The current head guild submits to your guild
**However it happens! The former head guild will need to let the Staff know.
*A new territory is created (spotted).
**Usually a guild is already selected for this oocly, but...
**Petitioning or a competition may be held.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Guilds Guilds]

===[[File:prima.png]]Prima Famiglia===
The royal family. A single bloodline has carried the crown through many centuries, supplemented by the marriages with worthy guilds or heroes as decided by the Primo Uomo (King). The royal seat is Inizio D'Oro, the city believed built on the spot that The Skald had made their one and only appearance.

Proper forms of address is by their title only, unless given permission otherwise. It is acceptable to shorten the title to just Primo or Prima, as well.

Titles: 
'''Primo Uomo''' (King, 'First Man') 
'''Prima Donna''' (Queen, 'First Lady') 
'''Primo Figlio''' (Prince, 'First Son') 
'''Prima Figlia''' (Princess, 'First Daughter')

Trivia: The Primo/a titles come from the term Prima Donna for 'first lady' in reference to music/ballet.

===[[File:Noble2.png]]Doge/Duce===
The titles belong to the Guild Leaders who have the double duty of running entire regions. Based on their service to the royal family can determine if they will marry in and have the honor of adding their family to the line of the Prima Familia.

Heirs enjoy a lap of luxury in the manor with the royal family. They do not have to be blood-related to the guild leader that sent them.

Proper nomenclature for addressing Doge/Duce are varied and more normalized, with Guild Leaders going by either their internal titles, their name directly, or as their title.

===[[File:Noble1.png]]Nobile===
Other guild leaders, despite not holding land, are still recognized as one of the wealthy. Their children are often sent to Inizio D'Oro to be personal servants to the royal family and their superior guild heirs. This title may also reference heirs of all guilds as well, as it is the lowest title of nobility.

Nobile Heirs also do not have to be blood related to the guild leader that sent them.

Possessing no additional fancy titles, Nobiles are typically referred to by their names, but are recognized as being of a superior class than the rest of their peers.

===Renowned===
Exceptional '''heroes''' may be recognized directly by the royal family as prospects to the line, earning a private title that has them at the same 'level' as a Doge/Duce without the land. These are few and far between, designed to humor the belief that ''even the pig keeper can become a king'', a mantra said to encourage people to not feel bound by their station.

''This level of rank could also apply to villains. They are respected, as without them there would only be half the opportunities for heroes to appear. Still, they probably would not be excited to have one as their leader or suitor! ''

This rank is given to people who collect enough notable badges to appear well decorated and are not already ranked as nobility. Badges of note include The End, Manticore Mangler, Dragon Doombringer, Virtuoso Vanquisher, etc.

Main Page

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Raconite: /* Maestros and Virtuosos WIP */

Skald Song is a play-by-post medieval sword and sorcery role-play set in an original world based around the fine arts.

=Rules=
[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/TOS On Terms of Service]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Play_Rules On Playing]

=Getting Started=

[[How-to]] - some useful information on various actions in chat.

==Glossary==
There are many words and terms in the world of The Tapestry that you will run into. Here's a handy reference to what they mean or refer to.

'''Comprimaro/a''' - Partner. This is a title given to someone perceived as being the significant other of the Prince or Princess.

'''Doge / Duce''' - Title for the male/female leader of a guild that holds a region and their spouse. They may go by additional titles cultural to their region.

'''Maestro''' - Grand Master. This is in reference to the original founding guild leaders anointed by The Skald. They are absolute masters in their fields and are capable of great power.

'''Nobile''' - Leaders of guilds that do not hold regions. This term/rank is given to the heirs of any guild as well. Lowest titled nobility.

'''Oratorio''' - The religious text of The Tapestry.

'''Prima Donna ''' - Queen

'''Primo/a Figlio/a''' - Prince / Princess

'''Primo Uomo''' - King

'''Skaldborne/Strangers''' - People not native to The Tapestry.

'''Virtuoso''' - God/dess. These are corrupted founding guild leaders, who took to the power and created cults instead. They consider themselves ''almost'' equal to The Skald and are doing the creator's bidding. They aren't wrong, but they aren't doing it the way The Skald intended originally.

==Native or Not?==
Natives were born and raised in The Tapestry and it is all they have ever known, generally speaking. They are not at all surprised by the arrival of beings from other places. It is, after all, part of their oldest beliefs that the creator of the world has hand picked these arrivals. Although their comfort level with a species they haven't seen before is something best left to the player to decide. New arrivals that were already a part of a guild in their former world, we encourage you to reach out to the guild of preference and let them know, especially if you're interested in pursuing that path. The guild leaders will be more than likely happy to add you to their rosters, or may choose to remain disenfranchised despite knowing that the power of a guild can help them go far in life.

*Native characters start off with more gold than non-natives.
*If a slot is available, native characters can start with title.

Non-native characters, also referred to as '''''Skaldborne''''' or '''''Strangers,''''' find themselves in a strange land and generally in even stranger circumstances. The way they arrive into the world is up to the player's descriptive discretion, but it is encouraged that their characters should arrive with some vague and varied amounts of amnesia and may or may not lack the clothes on their back. Think of it like a floating scale, where the most extreme cases are usually full blown amnesia and on the other end they retain all their memories, but are never quite sure how they got to The Tapestry.

Because of this constant influx of Skaldborne, the natives of The Tapestry leave wrapped little packages with a change of clothes, a waxed map to the nearest settlement, and a small amount of gold to get them started. They are usually highly encouraged to join a guild for ease in assimilation into the world, plus the guilds would get quite the reputation if one of the Skaldborne proves themselves and becomes a clear representation a champion chosen by The Skald.

*Skaldborne characters will start off with a lesser amount of gold than natives, but will have the 'care package' already in their inventory.
*You can also opt to play a non-native that has been around long enough to adapt.

==OOC Timeline==
This is a general overview of the history of the world, where large scale events and changes will be recorded as they happen through RP. This way, new members can effectively create characters that are native and have access to all information they may need for that character's knowledge at a glance.

For a more detailed timeline for a region, see that region's page.

2017 - Meizarae released. 
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1967 - Artificial Limbs using Copper Heart's puppetry mechanics first use. 
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1717 - Virtuosos defeated. Monarchy established. 
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1700 - Maestros become corrupted, 'Virtuoso' coined. Chanson Isole'e breaks ground. 
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1050 - First Skaldborne appear. 
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1000 - The Skald visits future site of Inizio D'Oro, selects Maestros, who found the first Guilds. 
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0 - The Tapestry is brought to life

=The "Tapestry"=
The Tapestry is what the natives call their world, believing that they are just one big masterpiece on an unseen canvas. As such there are no true names of continents, with masses of land/regions simply being referred to by the main city that inhabits them. There is a distinct illusion of organized peace with the leaders of regions bowing in unison to a high king, but there is strife in many forms political or otherwise. And yet their god, The Skald, loves every minute of it.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Events Events]

==Places==
[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Inizio_D%27Oro Inizio D'Oro (Capital)]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Chanson_Isole%27e Chanson Isole'e]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Uhrwerkstadt Uhrwerkstadt]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Otkrytoye_Polotno Otkrytoye Polotno]

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Prasino_Kolaz Prasino Kolaz]

==Lore==
The religious text of The Tapestry is called the '''Oratorio''', a series of chants that explain the very basics of the world's functions and has been around since early creation. While other religions can and do exist across the land, The Oratorio is 'true', whether its people really believe it or not.
It is hard to prove what only a handful have seen many years ago.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/The_Oratorio The Oratorio]

===Maestros and Virtuosos WIP===
The maestros were gifted with a greater range of power and insights that left them linked to the Great Skald in ways that tormented them. Coupled with an immortal life, the ability to see every string that intertwined in the bundle, no longer bemused with the excited desparation of seeking a needle in a haystack. When they were regular painted citizens of the Tapestry there was a facination and thrill of the future, the unknown, but that was gone now.

Their duties were both guidance and strife-making, which as time passed their colors bled and muddled until they saw little point to guide. The players on stage were weak and unmotivated, their ends were all the same. Cycled, returning to do much of the same in another shape. The Skald granted them the freedom to push harder, to change the key of the performance and so each of the maestros shifted, some abruptly without warning and some seemingly descending into a madness they controlled.

It was time for the world to make their own coveted heroes.

[[Meizarae]] - [[Havelock]] - Bjarke the Grizzled

===Skaldic Artifacts WIP===
A full suit of armor and an array of weaponry possessing fragmented power believed to have been directly from The Great Skald. Scattered after the initial battle as a memorial gift from the newly instituted monarchy to the guilds that took part in vanquishing the Virtuosos. The knowledge about these artifacts is very slim, with assumption being that they are powerful and noble in nature in any book mentioning them. This may not be the case in reality.

Most of the items are rudimentary, named as a part of one skaldborne or another's tradition to do so, and it is not clear when the items that have gained power did.

[[File:oldcirclet.png|100px|Gives the wearer random foresight, at the price of paranoia.]] [[File:Threadring.png|100px|Guides the wearer via golden thread to the next point of their story.]] [[File:Romansling.png|100px|If it can fit, it can sling. Aerodynamics be damned!]][[File:Alek_sword_ss.jpg|100px]]

Others, considered permanently lost OOC: Shield, Chestpiece

==Politics and Guilds==
The political theater of The Tapestry is always on the brink of a shift despite the illusion of peace carried by its people. Guilds are a major part of the world of the Tapestry. They can help your character rise in rank and power, as well as open many doors to quests and opportunities.

In character they are as potent as family ties / clans but have leniency in that they do not have to operate by bloodline.

'''Profile Perks to Guilds'''
*Members of guilds will have the banner displayed in their profiles, and titles changed accordingly if they hold power within the guild.
*Guilds will have their own slot on the forum to use as they see fit, as well as a 'group' that will color member's names in the online list.
*Leaders of guilds will gain a lump sum of gold: 5k for basic guilds, 10k for region-holding guilds.

'''Joining a Guild'''

If you feel your character would be a good fit for a guild, or that they would be interested in joining it, seek out a representative of the guild. Depending on the guild's structure that may be all you need to do.

Have a character that is a 'native' and you would like them to already be part of the guild? Talk to the leader OOCly to confirm. Make sure you save yourselves both time and hassle and check to make sure that the history of the guild can align with your character's simply enough (ie, timelines).

[[File:Battalgiaflag.png|100px|link=Battaglia|Battaglia Militancy]][[File:Handelsgilde.png|100px|link=Handelsgilde|Handelsgilde]][[File:Elysiumflag.png|100px|link=Elysium|Elysium]][[File:ColdhavenPack.png|100px|link=ColdhavenPack|Coldhaven Pack]][[File:Candidature9.png|100px|link=Candidature9|Candidature 9]]

Archive of Past Guilds

[[File:CopperHeartflag.png|100px|link=CopperHeart|Copper Heart]][[File:StoneHeartflag.png|100px|link=StoneHeart|Stone Heart]][[File:YsteriaFlag.png|100px|link=Ysteria|Ysteria]]

'''Starting a Guild'''
To create a guild you must:
*Have a specialty
*Have 5 members (including yourself)
*Have the approval of where you would like to be located.

Specialties do not have to be unique, to encourage rivalries.

You will have control on how it is run in terms of how you initiate or promote people and the rules within.

'''Becoming a Head Guild'''

In each territory there can be many guilds, but only one has the political weight to be considered in charge of the territory as a whole. To become the head guild of a territory one of two things need to happen:
*The current head guild submits to your guild
**However it happens! The former head guild will need to let the Staff know.
*A new territory is created (spotted).
**Usually a guild is already selected for this oocly, but...
**Petitioning or a competition may be held.

[http://www.skaldsongrp.com/wiki/index.php/Guilds Guilds]

===[[File:prima.png]]Prima Famiglia===
The royal family. A single bloodline has carried the crown through many centuries, supplemented by the marriages with worthy guilds or heroes as decided by the Primo Uomo (King). The royal seat is Inizio D'Oro, the city believed built on the spot that The Skald had made their one and only appearance.

Proper forms of address is by their title only, unless given permission otherwise. It is acceptable to shorten the title to just Primo or Prima, as well.

Titles: 
'''Primo Uomo''' (King, 'First Man') 
'''Prima Donna''' (Queen, 'First Lady') 
'''Primo Figlio''' (Prince, 'First Son') 
'''Prima Figlia''' (Princess, 'First Daughter')

Trivia: The Primo/a titles come from the term Prima Donna for 'first lady' in reference to music/ballet.

===[[File:Noble2.png]]Doge/Duce===
The titles belong to the Guild Leaders who have the double duty of running entire regions. Based on their service to the royal family can determine if they will marry in and have the honor of adding their family to the line of the Prima Familia.

Heirs enjoy a lap of luxury in the manor with the royal family. They do not have to be blood-related to the guild leader that sent them.

Proper nomenclature for addressing Doge/Duce are varied and more normalized, with Guild Leaders going by either their internal titles, their name directly, or as their title.

===[[File:Noble1.png]]Nobile===
Other guild leaders, despite not holding land, are still recognized as one of the wealthy. Their children are often sent to Inizio D'Oro to be personal servants to the royal family and their superior guild heirs. This title may also reference heirs of all guilds as well, as it is the lowest title of nobility.

Nobile Heirs also do not have to be blood related to the guild leader that sent them.

Possessing no additional fancy titles, Nobiles are typically referred to by their names, but are recognized as being of a superior class than the rest of their peers.

===Renowned===
Exceptional '''heroes''' may be recognized directly by the royal family as prospects to the line, earning a private title that has them at the same 'level' as a Doge/Duce without the land. These are few and far between, designed to humor the belief that ''even the pig keeper can become a king'', a mantra said to encourage people to not feel bound by their station.

''This level of rank could also apply to villains. They are respected, as without them there would only be half the opportunities for heroes to appear. Still, they probably would not be excited to have one as their leader or suitor! ''

This rank is given to people who collect enough notable badges to appear well decorated and are not already ranked as nobility. Badges of note include The End, Manticore Mangler, Dragon Doombringer, Virtuoso Vanquisher, etc.

Havelock

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Raconite: Havelock, the Virtuoso of Ill Omen

[[file:havelock.jpg|center]]
Title: Of Ill Omen

=Powers and Abilities=

'''Aura'''
Havelock emanates a mien of dread and foreboding, rattling the morale of anyone in his presence. The effect is more insidious than that, though - anyone in Havelock's presence is stricken by a blighted fate. A dodged sword that should have missed lands a cruel blow; a minor ailment intensifies to a debilitating sickness as Doom is made manifest. Success is minimalised, and failure is exaggerated while in the presence of Havelock.

'''Method:''' Havelock tampers with other rolls, rather than creating them himself for this effect, so the specifics of this will depend on the rp in question. Anyone in the same real room as Havelock is subject to this effect unless he decides otherwise.

'''The Mark of ill omen'''
Havelock uses supernatural power to brand a person with the mark of ill omen, a stain on their being that is all but invisible but to the most perceptive or powerful of people - it is unlikely anyone below the standing of a maestro can detect the mark. Once marked, the target is stricken by ill omen where ever they go - animals will shy away from, or attack them; people will inherently distrust the marked person as well, refusing them shelter or sustenance. Any act taken as suspicious or dangerous will be perceived significantly worse, and the marked may be chased from civilised places as a product - there is no rest while so marked.

'''Method:''' This is a story-based ability, so generally it will be decided out of character if someone wants their character to be subjected to such a potentially long-term effect. Havelock's attention falls most prominently on people who are already examples of remarkable good or bad fortune/omens, and it's these people who typically receive the mark.

=Life as a Maestro=
Havelock is originally from (placeholder), and supervised a guild named the Black Bough. Hunters, trackers, trainers of beasts great and small - all of these professions worked under his careful attention. Havelock was a shrewd man, and not necessarily heart-warming or friendly, but he was respected, and fair in his judgment. He was widely known as an excellent huntsman and trainer of animals, chief among his achievements being a large canine he named Bharzas, a beast of a mysterious breed with a remarkable intellect - some say Bharzas was the last of some great wolf-like breed that died out a long time ago.

=Virtuoso, pre-monarchy=
There was no great cataclysm as Havelock became a virtuoso, no terrible tearing of society, pulled up by its roots and destroyed. The change was slower, more insidious and creeping than that, signs of ill omen stealthily appearing in the lives of people until it was too late to push them back. Crops failed; animals turned on their owners and became feral and demented as a sickly red moon hung in the sky, its shape akin to a half-lidded eye as the malignant light glinted on the populace at night. As the signs worsened, so to did the people, neighbor turning against neighbor as the minds paranoid and the maddened alike crumpled and they killed each other in the streets, outsiders burned on pyres, or ran down by dogs and men astride crazed horses. These mounted men and their hounds, once the subjects of Havelock the Maestro, finally lost their minds and souls and became the agents of Havelock the virtuoso, racing forth from the darkest places of the world at the turning from autumn to winter, riding down whichever poor soul is unfortunate enough to be out at night, and semblance of the people they had been now vanished, ravenous specters and little more.

File:Havelock.jpg

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Raconite:

Events

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Raconite: National and regional events across the world of SkaldSong

There are hardly civilizations without celebrations and the world of the Skald is no different. These are some of the celebrations that may be encountered or referenced.

Updates may occur as we all find new reasons to party.

The list is divided between national and local festivities. Some locales always have something going on, while others may keep to a few a year.

National
The Annual Review
Guild-related shops are closed and trade routes are rather bare, limited to time-sensitive offerings. Attentions are poised on the capital where the guild leaders confer in their great meeting with the Prima Uomo. To many this is a great shift of power in progress, with some meetings more turbulent than others as the announcement could follow with a wedding or coronation.

It is on this day that the plaza at the capital is filled with shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, waiting for the doors to open and for someone to take the podium.

In other parts of the world, it is a time of contemplation, with eyes to the sky and road for messengers of the results.

Beyond that, the day is normal... for many it's a stressful day off.

Date(s):

The Hounding
A single night during a great harvest moon terror runs free through the lands in the form of a fox hunt... and you are the fox.

Massive shadow hounds announce their presence and tear through anything in their path to run you down. Their howls and barking are answered by horns and the galloping of hooves as wraithlike riders on nightmares come to collect. Little bars them from you when they find you... their size means nothing as they shrink and grow to fill spaces and keep after you...

The natives urge you to stay inside. The morning before they are hurriedly painting the top door frame with a band of rich purple to ward off the hunting party. They encourage any campers in the wood to stay the night in the inn, or even offer them a seat in their own living rooms if just to get them out of the wilds for the night. For their sake.

Even the animals are wary, it is their strange behavior that signals the coming as suddenly there are no game to hunt, no birds to listen to... Just quiet....

The next morning the unheeding are mourned for. Some found headless, some torn apart as though the dogs had gotten them.... and some taken by some other means, as if their heart was unable to keep up with the demands.

Date(s): Harvest Moon night.

Local
Inizio D'Oro
Virtuoso's Gala
A turn of the year event when a stream of colors crease the night sky, believed to be the song coil of the Skald. The inhabitants of the Capital city hosts a black-tie gathering at the Prima Familia's own manor courtyard, and is one of the few times they are exposed to the public in a more intimate, mingling, fashion.

Date(s): Jan 1st, evening.

Uhrwerkstadt
Fortschrittsfeier
A two-day festival celebrating the successes of its inventors and the 'official' start of a free summer. Kicks off with a parade of the accomplishments where the town's leader awards the best work. A little like a science fair, the whole town no matter the type of work has a chance to show off their greatest successes for the year, using the chance to advertise and network. For the people of this alpine village, this also ends the work year with the reward of one season of fun and revelry with the second day of this celebration heavy with drinking, feasting, and dancing via a complete take over of the square. While the name of the festival translates to Progress Celebration, it is more commonly known as Inventor's Triumph.

Date(s): Vary. Always the last day of spring and first day of summer.

Chanson Isole'e
Hors du Silence
A celebration of spring's return, and with it the land surrounding the hamlet as the waters recede. A grand welcome for the first cargo caravans, and a great thanks as sailors take their ships out of service for cleaning and upkeep. Notable entertainment includes a flag throwing contest, where men show off their strength and acrobatics while waving and throwing large guild banners.

The Oratorio

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Raconite: Created page with "In the beginning there was a bright white nothing. The Great Skald pierced their own instruments of change and reached out to touch the void. From the humors flowed multitudin..."

In the beginning there was a bright white nothing. The Great Skald pierced their own instruments of change and reached out to touch the void. From the humors flowed multitudinous tendrils that snaked and warped creating the world in one continuous stroke.

And what a work it was, though incomplete.

The same line that drew the bottom of the ocean etched the highest mountain points and right up into the sky a beacon of light and swashes of cloud and star. This artwork coursed and surrounded the Great Skald until that was all that could be seen, layering on and on as depth lent itself to the hints of beings great and small, fragments of life that would populate the work.

And what a work it was, though incomplete.

The Great Skald then reached into the mortal tapestry of the new world and pulled from it the frayed threads and touched them to tongue. The wetting then returned to the works where the vibrant hues saturated the art spread like watercolors.

And what a work it was, though incomplete.

At last the unending coil of song was released into the world and we were born by breath into stories where we shaped our fables by deed and firelight. The Great Skald dove in to join us once and only once... where a handful were gathered to gain purpose by the bard's tale.

Because what a work it was, though forevermore incomplete.

Overview

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Raconite: Information to give a feel of the setting and the things within it

The natives of Skaldsong are an easy-going people as a whole and place a lot of attention on the arts. Their perception of art is vast, and as such are not restricted to what we in the real world would refer to 'classical' arts, as such some of their most praised figures in history seem to have rather mundane jobs. A inspiring public speaker could be revered as much as a renowned warrior, and again as much as a favored musical idol. There are/were guilds existing for the greater categories of these arts. These guilds also hold some political power across the nations.

Religiously, The Great Skald is the great being that created the masterpiece of the world. There is no description for this being. The Oratorio is the beginning as they know it. Concerning the Maestros/Virtuoso referenced in the Oratorio, their influence is dubious in how it has carried through history. The only constant is that they shape the destinies of others, they create the obstacles and challenges faced as well as the happy or tragic ends fitting for the Eternal Novel. Originally they were simply guides in this endeavor and are said to have been the founders of the old guilds. These days they are gods and are worshiped in line with, or instead of, the Great Skald.

The capital city, Inizio D'Oro, is believed to be where the Great Skald had made their one and only visit and held the meeting to create the first Maestros/Virtuoso. Descriptively it has a lot of Italian influences with the architecture sporting colorful stucco and terracotta roofing and hilly cobblestone or wheel-worked dirt roads with tightly placed buildings at the main hub. As the city expands outward it takes on a more picturesque countryside appeal with rolling green hills dotted with farm plots. Carvings and decorative structural art are generally centered around the Great Skald, particularly in older parts or centers of gathering places such as mass markets, festival locales, etc. Sometimes they are subtle, the clef note appearing at the top of pillars or in the corners of door moldings or as a door handle. Sometimes they are grand, such as an entire fountain dedicated to their creator.

The city is landlocked and is large on agriculture, such as wheat and grapes.

The style of government is a monarchy, with the royalty referred to as the Prima Familia. Instead of a King they have a Prima Uomo and Queen is Prima Donna. Shortening to Prima is also acceptable. Only the aristocracy gain social interactions with the Prima Familia, taking up all of the jobs that would directly deal with them, and as such many aspire to the royal position by getting the favor to marry in. This often creates tension that could rise into a "Capulet and Montague"-like feud.

While the ruling family has the final and absolute say in what goes, there is recognized power in the guild leaders (who are also considered aristocrats) who form the Choir, as it is they who carry out the orders of the crown far into their respective communities they lead.

Heirarchy

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Raconite: Created page with "The politics of Skaldsong are simple and disregarding the beings they treat as gods, the government is comprised of the royals (Prima Familia) at the top tier with the wealthy..."

The politics of Skaldsong are simple and disregarding the beings they treat as gods, the government is comprised of the royals (Prima Familia) at the top tier with the wealthy just beneath them. These wealthy high-bloods form the Aristocracy and have a particular set of duties assigned to them.

They are given charge of a township as well as taking up the leadership of the associated guild. They have full command over these areas, but typically are doing so at the discretion of the royal family. As where the Prima Familia prospers, so do they and being in the good graces of that family is in their highest interests. Becoming the next Prima Familia is potentially just a marriage away.

Hierarchy
Prima Familia (Royalty)
Doge/Duce (Settlement Leader)
Nobile (Guild leaders)
Everyone else

The children of Doge/Duce are often sent to the Prima Familia as Ladies and Lords -in-waiting and the children of the Nobile are often given work as personal servants at the manor.

The Choir

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Raconite: The forum of the Guild Leaders, the location of the Annual Review

info here

Otkrytoye Polotno

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Raconite: Created page with "Totally not Russian place, go go go"

Totally not Russian place, go go go

Chanson Isole'e

2017-06-15T19:51:12Z

Raconite: Created page with "Another township, more as we have it"

Another township, more as we have it

Uhrwerkstadt

2017-06-15T19:49:48Z

Raconite: Maker's village

Place of commerce and artifice, more as we have it

Inizio D'Oro

2017-06-15T19:48:59Z

Raconite: Capital city

Capital city, and general fancy place, presumably the seat of the monarchy, I don't remember

The Skald

2017-06-15T19:47:29Z

Raconite: The Skald is the enigmatic deity that ostensibly presides over the world and all its workings

Just setting up page references so they can be filled with data at a later point. This is for the Skald and his foppish dickery