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The Fury has called on her Sons and Daughters!
On this, the Eighth Sun of the Fourth Astral Moon, in the year of the Fury Four of this Seventh Astral Era, the children of Ishgard are invited to draw near and answer her plea for service once more.
With the end of the Dragonsong War, the time has come to again take our rightful place among the great nations of this world. As a new iteration on an ancient nation, it is important that our fledgling democracy take her Rightful Place as a member of the global community. To that end, Parliament does Ordain and Establish this Office for the Advancement of Our Most Holy Cause upon foreign soil. We call upon both our own sons and daughters and those foreign nationals with a dedication to Ishgard in their bones to answer the call and build diplomatic relationships realm-over.
The world has changed ere we closed our gates, it has become in some ways a harsher place, but in others a more interconnected one. Our place in this new world relies on you.
The first project of this Office of Foreign Affairs will be the Establishment of a facility in Hingashi for the purpose of cultural, spiritual and political exchange. This Embassy or Consulate, or whatever form should be deemed Appropriate and Just by the Office, is a sign to the world that Ishgard is no longer content to watch from afar, but to be the Moral and Righteous Partner in world affairs that the Fury would will us to be.Â
From this important symbol of our Faith and Determination, we shall follow the path the Fury bids, to remain an ever-present part of diplomatic and political affairs across Hydaelyn and to welcome those of diplomatic standing to the Holy City with warmth and friendship.
Be it So Ordered.
Iris Lilith Blanchimont
Minister of Parliament
Office of Foreign Affairs Administrator
Minister of Parliament
Office of Foreign Affairs Administrator
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Out of Character Information
The purpose of this Free Company isn't so much to make little Ishgard enclaves so that Ish RPers never need to leave Ishgard, but instead to give a good solid reason why people are, and to provide support networks to Ishgardians abroad. Already a lot of the community of Ishgard that grew around Heavensward has either disbanded to find a place in Stormblood or found their own reasons to travel, and <<Vault>> would happily be there to support these characters. Some ideas we have on how to do this include hosting cultural exchange events, operating a Temple Levedesk out of a plot in Shirogane and providing an avenue to continue the high-quality political and diplomatic RP that we were known for through Heavensward to the rest of the world.
There are some challenges, of course. Whenever you take an action as an 'official' thing in the RP community you run the risk of running afoul of canon or alienating some people who fear canon forcing retroactive continuity. We do have a few responses planned out if the game takes a particular direction with something we're working on, typically that takes the form of saying our efforts are 'pilot programs' for future efforts by Ishgard proper. However, confident that the story of Ishgard has been broadly told, we do not anticipate this being a problem. We don't want to contravene canon or challenge it, we want to enrich it and expand it. That is what RP does best, after all.
What we're looking for from you are the kinds of people that make an embassy feel real and alive. We've got our officers - Iris Blanchimont, Lamia Vuinuet and Wu'rexa Norh - but we need a diplomatic corps, missionaries of Halonic doctrine, healers, scholars, cultural icons of Ishgard, High Houses, merchants, security forces and Temple Knights, everything that makes a consulate a part of a community. And for characters without a background in Ishgard, we want people who believe in this kind of diplomacy. We want your Ul'dahni tradesmen, your Lominsian privateers and your Gridanian spiritualists to work with us to help establish deep ties to the rest of the world that Ishgard in canon is sorely lacking right now.Â
We've got a website set up with RP Repository here, a tumblr to follow here, and a Google Forms application here.Â
We were also the front-page story in Issue 27 of The Crystal Chronicle.
We've saved up enough for a Small in Shirogane, but are aiming for a Medium and are seeking donations and running maps like crazy to bring that kind of money together. Look forward to a ribbon-cutting event this fall!Â
