Salvian Bards Guild
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The Salvian Bards' Guild was founded within the Republic of Salvus in 1505. The Bards' Guild are bringers of enlightenment and knowledge.
Backstory
Trees are amongst us: some of nations, some of families, and some of.. nature. In common, they all blossom of fruit and shed and rest. They house creatures of some sort, and sanguine nectar in the core of their well intent. For the nation, their coffers be the nectar. For the family, it be their blood. For the nature, its nectar is pure. The branches reach out in our dear trees. The nation has its guilds and groups, with the family its ancestry, and the tree? Mere sticks.
The fruit.. is where our trees diverge. One willow may weep its bitter ichor, and another sycamore its sour cherries. Yet, as of late, nations have bore little fruit of culture. The families refuse to let what fruit their branches hold fall. And nature? Well, it’s not apples this be writ for. Nay, friends. It be the nation’s culture.
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We are all of the same thicket.. and, as nature, in want of growth. Yet, there has been little fertile ground for our nimble tendrils to reach out and embrace Enlightenment! That very light which not only will see joy through, but our existence in itself. For too long has the darkness blighted the people:short wonder it has only been the glint of a crown’s ruby, or a blade’s gleam that had caught their attention.
Purpose
It was their livelihood, and pleasure, as Bards of Enlightenment, to reach their branches further - enough to bask in the glory of open day, beyond what has been a dark age. It be Sol, and its nightly friends, which direct our path - by the faith of the Republic of Salvus we reside within. The parallel shared is so close, it was more simpler to see them Bards as one to the Republic.
Do not mistake this for blind loyalty, however.
The Bards only has their Curators as their superior: not even the Chancellor of the Republic may dictate what is writ of them, or anyone, or anything - for that matter. It was the constitution they embody, and which allowed them their rights - of arts, be they traumatic or fine, and literature. Music completes a ‘trinity’ of activity the Bards are expected to partake and progress upon. It is oft one strand of this trinity which a typical Bard would specialize upon (Arts, literature, or music). It is the Curators who assigns their overall vision, which Luxeanna Du Couteau And Giliath Hadar currently held the septum for. (See Notable People)
As with any guild, their leading representative - the Curators - are elected, during the time of the Salvian Elections, every sixteen years.
Songs by the Salvian Bard Guild
For Salvus - Ayevia (A song that was inspired by the fall of salvus in early vailor.)
The Feast In Salvus - Ayevia (A spoof cover of the well known Skyrim song, Dragonborn comes)
Notable People
- Luxeanna Du Couteau
- The leader of The Salvian Bards' Guild, and the Tribune of Salvus.
- Giliath Hadar
- The founder of The Salvian Bards' Guild.
