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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 1169225" data-attributes="member: 3722">Brigitta speaksBrigitta rises and smiles awkwardly at her new sodales; her clumsiness is more noticeable next to Fionaula’s grace. Her sleeve shifts and you can notice faint green markings on her wrists, like permanent grass stains.     “Sodales, I would like to express my opinions on these important matters. Please bear with me; my words are not as finely expressed as those of you who have spoken before.    On the naming issue, because I think this is important – I don’t really like Accendo at all. It would be a good name for a Flambeau covenant, maybe, but surely we seem to be heading towards a more peaceful, creative covenant rather than one built around such an aggressive concept of light. [Accendo means less “to illuminate” than “to set on fire;” obviously, Marcus would know this in-game.] Also, I think that in the quest for deeper meaning, we’re forgetting our own setting and the life that will give birth to our magics. I’d like to suggest remembering our new mountain home in our name, as well as the concept of light; those of you who are not from around here may not know of our tradition of lighting mountain bonfires to convey messages across the entire region. Lumen Montis, Light of the Mountain, or Lumen Summum, The Highest Light, might be good possibilities. [I am always ready to provide Latin assistance, fyi.]     I like the idea of extending the terms for paying back our vulgar debt; you can’t rush animals and plants, you know. I’m sure Lemannus wouldn’t abuse our votes, but if you care about it that much, perhaps we could try for it.     I’m very against the primus being chosen by either certamen or lot. I don’t think I would make a very good primus, and I’m sure those of you who are better at public speaking with mundanes and even other magi would like to hold the position for many years. Perhaps election for 10 years, with one renewable term as a possibility? I also like the idea of splitting up the job; we all have better things to do than spend our time dealing with administration, after all! I support a librarian and a vis conserver, and maybe someone in charge of the buildings for the first few years, so that we don’t have a half-finished scriptorium because it was abandoned to start the labs.    On the other issues – I’d like to settle all disputes peacefully within the covenant itself; I don’t mind the Wizard War prevention, but I don’t want to be responsible for fighting  if someone gets themselves into independent trouble that isn’t anything to do with the covenant. Unanimous minus one seems like a good number.And of course, we should always support the brave Redcaps, and diminished service – beginning with a season per year – seems quite reasonable, although of course if those of us who cast spells to benefit the entire covenant should have that counted in as part of our service, and ideally that shouldn’t count against our alloted amount of vis.</blockquote>

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