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