Scholar's Guild
Champions for education, enlightenment, and discovery, the Scholar's Guild seeks to unearth the past and pave the way for the future.
Structure
The Scholar's Guild follows the typical hierarchy found in most guilds. New members are iniated as apprentices and study under the guidence of a master, often assisting with the latter's research and projects.
Through enough study and work, members graduate to the role of journeymen. Journeymen are allowed greater independance and often take up positions in society as teachers, tutors, and the like. They can join higher-level projects such as archeological digs as well as take more specialized courses of study. However, they remain ineligible for grants and other funding from the guild for reseach endeavors.
Masters are the rank at which one can apply for sponsorship and grants through the guild. In exchange, masters are required to take on apprentices to pass on their experience to. In years past, this has been used to help discourage abuses of funds granted by the guild.
Masters are often recognized by the specialitiy of their fields of study. For instance, a high-ranking scholar might introduce themselves as a Master of Crystalogy when seeking a position involving work with
mana crystals.
At the top of the guild sits the grand-masters. Scholars who have reached this rank typically take on more administrative roles, overseeing parts of the guild such as finances, regulations, and public out reach.
Culture
The Scholar's Guild is centered on the belief in building and sharing knowledge. This attitude is emphasized by many of the opportunities afforded to members relating to teaching or assisting other guilds with research.
More private scholars are often slower to share their findings in the hopes of capitalizing on a great discovery of their own. The guild, while frowning on the outrright hoarding of knowledge, does not have much in the way of rules against its members dragging their feet so long as said findings are ultimately shared with the greater community.
One of the most prickily sides of the guild, however, would be its rivalry with the
Church of Rosaris and its knights. The church has long frowned on the guild's meddling in fields involving the study of Dwarven ruins or the era preceding the Draconic War. Scholars, for their part, are quick to point out the church consistently confiscating and seemingly hoarding whatever findings they make at ruins.
The two have eventually settled on a middle ground where they abide to respect the claim of whomever discovers a site first.
Alternatively, the scholars often collaborate with other guilds such as the artificers and blacksmiths to assist with educating their younger members or researching innovations in their fields. Scholars and artificers in particular work together frequently to study the workings of mana crystals and enchanted tools excavated from ruins.Public Agenda
Education and research are the guild's main aims. The ethos the of guild is to better society by providing afforadable education to the masses.
This goal, however, has faced obstacles given the guild's rivalry with the church and its own teachings.
Assets
Public relations are a surprising strength for the guild. The work performed to offer education to the public as well as serving as a central repository for useful knowledge for both scholars and members of other guilds such as artificers has granted the guild with a positive reputation in their communities.
Sadly, this reputation is often diluted to some degree by the tensions between the guild and church. Some towns and cities lean so far in the church's favor that scholars can face considerable resistance including denial of entry all together.
This has translated well into the guild's coffers as donors often reach out to the guild to hire members as tutors or experts on a given field. Such funds have lead to local chapters of the guild to afford considerable campuses in cities including dormitories for members.
The distribution of the guild and its chapters across Vestria has given it a degree of influence comparable to the church itself. This has proven invaluable for out reach and recruitment as the guild has been known to offer scholarships to gifted apprentices and journeymen to further their educations in facilities such as
Everset Academy.
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Type
Educational, Society
Demonym
Scholars
Notable Members
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