[Antir_scribes] Baronial Scribe - discussion topic

[Jillian Bower]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Liesl Andrico <tevenete at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I do not believe that the office of scribe should be mandatory.  One
> must be drawn to the scribal arts as a bit of self is given in each
> piece of artwork we create.
>
> I disagree here. One does not need to be -good- at the scribal arts to be
an efficient facilitator of the office. Anyone can be a scribe, but only one
person has to do the reporting. I happen to be very, very efficient at that
reporting part and not so good at the rest of it still. And that really is
true of any -office-... whoever holds it just has to be the person making
sure that what needs to get done is getting done. In our case that means the
actual officer has to make sure that charters get painted, seals get made,
classes get taught and everyone learns and has fun. They don't need to draw,
paint and calligraph every single charter or scroll their group gives out.
:)

In my opinion, having the office mandatory for Baronies (just as heralds are
mandatory for Baronies) makes a great deal of sense. Baronies have official,
registered awards that shires cannot have, and -someone- has to be the point
of contact to make sure those awards are presented with shinies and pretty
painted things :) Asking the herald to do that along with all the other
things a Baronial Herald has to handle is entirely not fair and entirely
impossible.

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