The ranks of Elder belong to some of the most hard-working, steady, devoted members in our Brotherhood. I am honored today to recommend that Qyreia join them.
In the last three years, Qyreia has ground away at producing content for her fellows, having organized twenty five competitions and co-organized five, and constantly been active, participating in two hundred and three of them, of which she placed in ninety-seven, just under half, all in all garnering herself six Gold Novae, five Silver Novae, five Bronze Novae, seven Crescents with Diamond Stars, twelve Crescents with Ruby Stars, twenty-four Crescents with Amethyst Stars, twenty-four Crescents with Sapphire Stars, eleven Crescents with Emerald Stars, two Crescents with Topaz Stars, and one Crescent with Quartz Star. These activities, fifty three gaming ones and a much wider berth of fifty-one fiction ones, come with thirty-nine Clusters of Fire, four hundred and thirteen Clusters of Ice, five hundred and fifty-sevn Clusters of Earth, eighty-three Clusters of Graphite (for the record, that's over 206,500 words written in the last three years, and that's only the submitted stuff, hey Q.) Additionally, Qyreia has put her time in at the Shadow Academy, passing eight courses and gaining two degrees, plus one Legion of the Scholar, and lead the way, literally and figuratively as a member leading by example, in four vendettas wherein she earned two different Hero titles, accumulating two Seals of Loyalty, twenty Seals of Visions, twenty-two Seals of Enmity, and twenty-eight Seals of Ascension.
These are all impressive numbers for personal activity alone, but Qyreia has spent her entire Brotherhood career serving others in this Club, both in her Clans and dedicatedly across the Brotherhood, having continuously held leadership positions since two months after her joining. In the last three years since she earned Equite IV, that time has earned her two Amethyst Kukris and one Sapphire Blade, and included over a year as Magistrate to the Voice wherein she administered daily to the Character Sheet queue and participated regularly in Voice Office discussions -- having been her Praetor during that time, I can recount as much -- and all the other associated duties of the Staff, answering member questions and assorted backend work. At the Clan level, she spent a year of her several years of Clan leadership as my Quaestor -- both my Quaestor as a member of her House, and then my Quaestor as her Proconsul -- before stepping up to become my Consul for the last ten months. Having witnessed her leadership from both sides, and really, having witnessed her leadership in all its forms for so many years, I can tell you this: Q is a dedicated leader. For all our disagreements in philosophy and spirit, there has not been a single day I have ever doubted her commitment or work ethic. No other member of Acrona's summit in recent years has been so dedicated to the mundane and the foundation-laying: to thoroughness in planning plots, long term, to building out the system and worlds, to publishing fictions with a continuous storyline, to regular reports (seventeen of them since last promotion), to making event calendars and scheduling and enforcing report regularity at the House and Battleteam levels. Qyreia's work is not the loudest. In fact, she hardly draws any attention to herself or it, or the number of hours she puts into it. So it is my job to do it for her, and say sincerely that quietly, in the background, Qyreia is making sure this Clan and this summit functions and continues and has the building blocks to keep growing and chugging along on a daily basis. We would not be as well situated as we are now without her, and certainly owe many Clan-wide successes in part to her personal ones. It's hard for that work to go unsung, to keep on when we have clashes, disagreements, or when we make mistakes. None of us is perfect. Q has messed up too. But she's always owned up to it, and always kept working, and her dedication is an inspiration to me constantly as what could be.
Q, thank you. For so much. Happy shoosting.
Pronsul, Clan Arcona
Master Ruka Tenbriss Ya-ir, 2023-02-03 18:15:18 UTC