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(Taken from the Royal
Library of Evendarr 6/25/603)
Overview of the Avendale Royal Mages
Guild
Mission of the Avendale Royal Mages Guild:
The mission of the Avendale Royal Mages Guild is to provide an infrastructure to
encourage and support those casters of celestial magic who travel to the Kingdom
of Avendale. The Guild exists to organize celestial magics in defense of the
land and its people, to provide services of identification, magical
construction, scroll making and other celestial arts and sciences.
History of the Avendale Royal Mages Guild:
Early in the year of 600, Archmage of Shadow Lyonesses was discovered trapped in
a magical stasis in the ruins of Fort Locklear. The Archmage had been trapped
there since the fall of the Empire of Brisbane and was very thankful for his
release. Lyonesses quickly swore his loyalty to Queen Niomi and began to use his
awe inspiring celestial power in service of the Kingdom. Queen Niomi Avendale
noted a gaping hole in the area of Celestial Magics in her kingdom and appointed
Lyonesses as High Guildmaster of her a new Royal Mages Guild. After not a years
service in this role, Lyonesses vanished while performing magical
experimentations.
Witnesses nearby his guildhall reported an awesome roar,
followed by a flow of almost tangible inky blackness from the hall, which then
faded away in the light. When the strange black fog cleared, the guild hall, the
Guild Master and a number of his assistants had vanished, no magic's yet have
been able to discern their whereabouts.
The guild was in turmoil, and to the forefront of this stepped Mathias Raveloch,
he had worked briefly with Lyonesses as an Assistant Guildmaster. The Queen
looked at Ravelochs history and record and appointed him to take Lyonesses
place.
High Guildmaster Mathias Raveloch studied at the College of Celestial Magic of
the Evendarrian Royal Academy of Arcane Arts and Sciences, and at the end of his
ten years of study, he became a professor for almost 60 years. Raveloch a human
sought to retire. At 102 Raveloch decided that he disliked retirment and wished
to go back to teaching. Raveloch Began to teach at the newly founded Avendale
Royal Academy. Mathias Raveloch found now that teaching did not have the same
draw it once had, and after only three years he once more retired. It was then
that he was approached by Lyonesses and asked to be an Assistant Guildmaster,
which he accepted. In this capacity High Guildmaster Lyonesses called on him to
act as a sort of Liaison to the Evendarrian Guilds and Academy using Ravelochs
extensive connections to the advantage of Avendale.
Mathias Raveloch has had a much more hands off approach to running the Mage's
Guilds. Allowing the Guild masters who run the local guild halls more free will.
Raveloch ensures that support is provided when requested, but he allows them
their own books and does not centrally manage the guilds business. Raveloch
spends a great deal of his time traveling and meeting with mages of other lands,
in an attempt to establish a rapport between the guilds of many lands, and allow
for a trade of knowledge and information.
Working in the Avendale Royal Mages Guild:
The mundane day to day tasks of the Avendale Royal Mages Guild do not tend to be
overly exciting. Routine identifications, scroll making and for those so
skilled, the creation of magical weapons and items through formal magics. On
occasion the Royal Mages Guild is asked to help the Avendale Royal Academy in
research pertaining to those things of a Celestial nature. The Kingdom of
Avendale being built within the ruins of the Empire of Brisbane frequently comes
acrossed many strange artifacts, documents and phenomena left by the long gone
civilization. At the bequest of the Royal Academy the Royal Mages Guild brings
their powers of lore, identification and divining to bear on some occasions.
Sometimes, due to the incursion of beasts and creatures both magical and
mundane, traps, pitfalls and a multitude of other dangers, a call goes up
through the mages guild to its members who belong to that hearty class of
people, the adventurer. To this end, the Royal Mages Guild tries to recruit
adventurers into its ranks, so that those task too dangerous for the common
scholar can be undertaken. Likewise in times of wars and battles, the kingdom
looks to the Royal Mages Guild to organize the celestial casting adventurers, to
bring their awesome might down upon the enemy.
Structure of the Avendale Royal Mages Guild:
The Avendale Royal Mages Guild is now in its third year of existance. In its
brief time, it has gone through a number of dramatic changes to the kingdom.
Avendale also being a frontier, with many violent and often lethal creatures and
events coming forth frequently, the turnover in some of the more frontierslike
estates has been high. Additionally there are a number of new estates and
territories that have not yet had a full guildhall built in them and as such a
new guildmaster has not yet been assigned. A full guildhall and guildmaster have
not yet been established in the Barony of the Silvermyst.
Barony of Brisbane:
Guildmaster: Estate(s):
Jaquard Shones (deceased) Lyonesse, Saxony, Ambrose
Zacharia Whells Windmaster
Massar Leonaesh Ravaloch
Goodi Wenzenslaus Shale, Greylocke
Cecil Zans (deceased) Vanguard, Doulton
Baroness Kittery Anisia Valinor Holindarn Velowyn
Kurtal Nord Arundel, Calabac, Tandon, Trevelyn
Trustin Callis Solonari, Oakwood
Makash Wardrm Shattered Lands, Huntington
Phoebe Llojo Endarr, Snapdragon
Aedric Maldona Frost peak, Twilight
Mathias Raveloch Brokenlance, Galenson, Brisbane, Gateway, Monay
Barony of Nebulonde:
Guildmaster: Estate(s):
Narama Kyoto Koshitaka, Hayabashiri
Gichi Zenoba (deceased) Takami, Jokaimon
Aliza Shones Moonguard, Hachidou, Kazaya
Syril Greenewhal Iceweb, Nebulonde
Kensa Koshitaka Yotsude, Oniyado, Hourin
Leura Leone (deceased) Nando
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