Scribe
What is a Scribe...
A Scribe is someone who works to record and maintain the stores of knowledge. This can fall to someone doing something as small as keeping track of grain stores, to something as complicated as recording the history of the world. Scribes, overall, work to preserve and fortify knowledge throughout the world. You'll often find Scribes at Libraries, Bookshops, or in places that sell mass amounts of parchments, pens, and inks.
A Scribe in the field
Scribes in the field often find themselves... Well, not really in the field as it were. Most scribes work behind the scenes in offices and libraries. They are regularly required to record, date, and itemize the history of the world from as many avenues as possible. Scribes are also an important part of most governments and businesses. They record transactions, complaints, projections of sales, etc.
Career
Qualifications
Entry Level Scribe
You might as well simply call them runners, for that's all they are. They run things here and there. Most don't even pick up a quil until they're several years into the job. They often say "you're not a real scribe until you've walked the guild hall from end to end and failed to find the scroll you need."
Entry level scribes require very little to actualy be a scribe. Most of the act of being a scribe is just recording, rewriting, spell checking, and notation work at the direction of a Senior Scribe. Exceptionally talented Entry Level Scribes are often placed in highly sought after positions amongst the Elder Scribes who desperately need assistance in transcribing their works.
Writ of acceptance by a Senior Member of the Guild
Writ of Heraldry, dating back two generations within as much detail as possible
Signed page of established Biases
Writ of Heraldry, dating back two generations within as much detail as possible
Signed page of established Biases
Career Progression
First Year In the Postion
A scribes first year in the service is mainly spent in classes, learning the trades and languages that will become important over the course of their career. Classes are held in the mornings, while Entry Level Scribes are all then released to run errands for the rest of the Guild. Specific Scribes working on projects may request Junior or Entry Scribes to attend their errands, but most are assigned by means of a rotation list.
Second Year in the Position
Giving the briefest of explenations, as the higher one goes in the Scribe Guild the more secretive it becomes. However, by the time a Scribe has served their first 1000 hours in the position, they are thrown a small party to celebrate. This is also where they earn their Second tier Badge. The Second Tier Badge shows them as a higher member of the staff, and also explains that they can help new Scribes with issues that arise.
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Scribes Badge! by CoolG
...but a miserable pile of secrets?
Scribes are integral to the infastructure of the world as we know it, taking a supporting role in nearly every aspect of what we see. We would not have records of transactions for purchases, written or oral history, or any real concept of the goings on of the world without them. This puts them in a very important role, the problem with being in that important role is that they're also still just a person. Bias, lies, misleading truths, all these things can work against the efforts of scribes. It is up to the work of the collective of scribes, and their council, to make sure that events a recorded properly and then scrutinized for bias or lies.
Mission Statement
It is our civic duty, nay our responsibility, that all who enter these sacred halls leave either wiser, or better off in some way. Knowledge is imperitive, and it's capture and spreading is more important than any one life in these halls. For what is the value of a human life when compared to the entire encylopedic history of a world? People can learn, become greater, but to do so one must be willing to teach. Or to read. We do not fight, for it is our sacred duty to preserve and record Lore, not make War.
Meaning of the Badge
The Books
The foundation of knowledge throughout the realms, books are the main form of teaching large swathes of information. However, due to the likelyhood that the people one would give them to would be illiterate, given the poorly lacking education system in the Realm, it is more common that a Scribe or Lore Master would pass through and tell the tales from one of the books. Nevertheless, the books hold a significant position in the heirarchy of learning.
The Pillars Holding Scrolls
Scribes place knowledge above almost everything else, short of self preservation, the scribes main job is to learn and expand the knowledge of the world. As such, scribes worship knowledge unto itself similar to minor dieties. There is no greater worship than that of knowledge, and because of that, the scroll atop the pillars is made to represent all that they stand for.
The Quill and Scroll
Representing the work of every scribe, the Quill and Scroll make up the whole of the Scribes duties. Record, Learn, Endeavor to be better. The Scroll is there to show the history of what has been learned, is sits atop the books as a way of showing it is the path before true learning. The Quill shows the work that all Scribes do, and represents the constant act of writing that a Scribe experiences.
The Eye
Perhaps the most confusing, and albiet interesting, part of the badge. No one is entirely sure what the eye actually represents, but it stays as a constant reminder. Whether that be a reminder that History is always watching, or perhaps that Scribes are always watching, in either situation, something is always observed and recorded.
Type
Administration / Management
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