Emory
One of the founding tribes of The City of Olympia.
The Emory were the most scholarly-minded of the founding tribes. They fought fiercely to protect what little remained of the Ancients’ archives. They established the first library of the nascent Olympia. When the Ark was finally opened, their focus quickly shifted to the restoration of the institute of learning they called their home.
The Emory would later become some of the founding members of the Apollo district. They made their home in the ancient structures of an old university and were some of the folk who managed to teach literacy skills and scholarly habits to the fledgling city.
Structure
The Emory were led by their Chancellor and a supporting Council of Trustees. Tribe members were elected to the Board of Trustees by popular vote. The trustees would then elect their Chancellor from among their own ranks. The organization of the Olympian Council owes some inspiration to the Emory's system of an even number of Trustees on the Board, with the Chancellor serving as the odd-numbered tiebreaking vote.
Culture
The Emory were primarily made up of orcs, elves, and humans. Their endless curiosity and thirst for knowledge kept them as one of the more peaceful founding tribes. Their in-depth knowledge of the histories and cultures of their neighbors made them valuable as translators and impartial adjudicators of tribal disputes. They dedicated themselves to the preservation of the written material found in the halls from which they took their tribe name.
An Emory child is not considered a teenager until they have spent some years in an apprenticeship with a bookbinder, storyteller, librarian, or some other officiant in charge of the archive. They may choose a different craft afterward into adulthood, but no child made it into adulthood without basic library management skills, paper preservation techniques, and several memorized encyclopedia passages or works of literature.
History
Metahumanity often craves what is familiar. When the Arks were unsealed, many returned to the halls they had once haunted before they were sealed away. The libraries they'd worked in and frequented were all but destroyed. Still, among the ruins of the Ancients’ city, records could still be found here and there. With the largest remaining library space in the region, the Emory quickly set themselves up as a repository for such discoveries and a hub for paper preservation.
When it became clear none of the other tribes retained any interest in the Ark that birthed them, the Emory took it upon themselves to care for it. They kept its entrance passable and, after the shockwaves of the Founding had settled, recorded the first tentative forays back into its depths. These forays led to the discovery of LOSTech and the Hephaestus device. Their efforts to preserve and catalogue the wealth of the Olympia Ark set the stage for Olympia's full modernization and unification.
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Emories, Archivists, Librarians
Chancellor Arjoon Bharadwaj