Artist's Guild
The Artist's Guild is the most exclusive club in Zetia. It only allows the most prominent creators into its ranks, and anyone who is allowed to join is instantly brought into the inner circles of nobility. The guild is notorious for finding brilliant street musicians or small time singers who perform at inns and bringing them into high society so that they can share their talents with the world. They are based in Arvozz Landing just south of the Grand Basin. Weekly fashion shows, art galas, and musical performances are organized by the guild, and a huge amount of tourism is brought in just from their efforts alone.
Structure
The guild is led by a president, voted in by other members on the first day of every year. New members are sponsored by existing ones, requiring three recommendations to be considered to join. The guild employs many non-members to host, cater, and manage guild activities.
Public Agenda
Bring the best art of Arheim into the light, preferably from Zetia.
Assets
Large art collections, cultural influence that reaches even Cirris, connections to both the aristocracy and the Troupe of Joy, and a sizable treasury acquired over centuries of patronage.
History
Created soon after Zetia conquered the other minor kingdoms in the Zetian Mountain Range, the Artist's Guild was funded by the government to increase morale throughout the kingdom. The nobility ran the guild, and they initially had trouble with members only recommending socialites and popular members of society until they finally hit their stride when Jokili T'lar, a noblewoman and singer, was elected. In her thirty three consecutive years of presidency, she slowly removed those who were not artistically talented and added no names who had an ear for music or an eye for painting.
Through the next two millennia, the members of the guild grew to be the most elite in their field, creating the most technically skilled and avant garde works of art possible and inventing a new language made to be sung instead of spoken or written. Members are still found from all over Arheim by recommendation of current members, though the elitism of the club has slowly crept back into a place where the guild has begun to stagnate again. Even so, the efforts of the guild to produce plays, literature, paintings, sketches, dance, fashion, song, and any other form of expression has made Arvozz Landing the undeniable art capital of Arheim.
Through the next two millennia, the members of the guild grew to be the most elite in their field, creating the most technically skilled and avant garde works of art possible and inventing a new language made to be sung instead of spoken or written. Members are still found from all over Arheim by recommendation of current members, though the elitism of the club has slowly crept back into a place where the guild has begun to stagnate again. Even so, the efforts of the guild to produce plays, literature, paintings, sketches, dance, fashion, song, and any other form of expression has made Arvozz Landing the undeniable art capital of Arheim.
Perfection is our standard.
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Educational, Society
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