Guild directors

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Guild members—Guild directors

Written by Madame Solène de Nivers for the rune guild.

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Responsabilities & skills required

Prestige

A very prestigious and influential title, "Lord/Lady Director"
Need to have the stature & charisma to fit the role

Elected

Elected by all members of their guild + approved by the king
Need to be able to represent & satisfy them all

Politics

Automatically become royal advisers
Need to have political knowledge & lots of diplomatic skills

Guild directors

Future

Get to decide how their field is going to progress—or not
Need to be ambitious & visionaries

Policies

Impact the practice of their field throughout the country
Need to set high standards but also be pragmatic

Risks

Not rare to have discontent masters murder them
Need to be powerful & to be able to defend themselves

Of course, the Ladies and Lords Directors would be nothing without their trusted guild administrators. While the Directors deal with the royal court, lofty politics and grand visions for their guilds, their administrators see to the concrete application of these, as well as take care of the actual day-to-day running of the guilds and of the managing of their members and their research.

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Current director of the rune guild—Lady Aliénor Duhaut

Lady Aliénor Duhaut by HayDmitriy on DepositPhotos

Lady Aliénor Duhaut is a rune mistress known for her silver tongue with politicians and her ability to make any sponsors part with their money and be happy about it. This has allowed her to make a few very successful collaborative projects and to be a very looked-after partner among the guilds.
In 10699, she was unsurprisingly voted director of the rune guild by a vast majority of members. Since then, our Lady Director has worked diligently at increasing the official government funding allocated to runic research, representing us in guild disputes, and making us look generally awesome.

Guild members' opinions

We are of course all very satisfied with our Lady Director and appreciative of the huge efforts she goes through on our behalf. Also, could I please finally get my researched program approved? I swear I've done all the revisions you were demanding!

— Master Jean Lannoie

I am always very appreciative of the many high-society parties to which the Lady Director invites some of us and of the opportunity she gives us to meet politiciens and influence future policies. She naturally always has my support during guild votes.

— Master Sérénius de Coroy

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Rune Guild

Locations The Kingdom of Nélannie · Esteille, the capital · Rune guild building Employees Mistress Alina Lange · Madame Solène de Nivers · Master Sérénius de Coroy · Master Jean Lannoie · Mistress Lanton · Mistress Norine · Rune Guild Members · Guild directors · Ingredient procurers Culture Education system (Universities and higher education system, The University of Brauchat) · Rivals (The enchanting guild) · Events (Summer interviews for the yearly research funding applications, Mastery viva) · Resources (Private libraries and the rune guild library)