#guilds

[xantchaslegacy]

[unbfacts]

In medieval Bologna, especially in its law schools, students did much more than simply attend classes. Their guilds organised much of university life, hired teachers and paid them directly through student fees. They could even fine professors for arriving late or failing to finish the agreed lessons, making Bologna one of history’s most student-controlled universities.

[cancancanaman]

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[aylish91]

I wish I could draw good...

I had a dream~

In my dream I was desperate to obtain high-quality and rare healing herbs and ingredients. It was in old time fantasy with knights and Guilds/adventurers. There were magical places called "Dungeons" you could go to that were almost always exclusively underground.

In order to get what I needed, I joined a guild as a healer and convinced the Master to take me on a "training journey" with a small group of fresh and learning first time adventurers.

The closest Dungeon could be one of the safest but most dangerous ever recorded. While the first couple of levels were fairly peaceful places and had a relatively high pay-out, the dungeon, and subsequently the Monsters and End Boss, didn't follow any known rules like the other well-known places.

Rooms and passageways could sometimes change places within their floor. Lower levels could start out peaceful but turn hostile. But most notably, it was the only dungeon where the "Boss" didn't stay within the confines of the "Final Boss's" chamber or even the lowest level. It was also noted that any and all confrontations with the mysterious Monster had always ended in failure and death.

I knew this, but forced myself into the group anyway. There had never been a recorded incidence of the Boss appearing on the first or second floor anyway...

Of course, there is always a first for everything~

The magic in the area had been going crazy since the second day we arrived, but my guide was experienced and knew what they were doing. As a big burley man was explaining and teaching about how to navigate certain magical features right after a big change, I wondered away down a darkened pathway by myself, drawn by something I couldn't explain.

It took me through the darkness towards a glowing blue cavern with tall grass and rocky crystals. At the opening was the silhouette of a figure dressed in extravagant dark blue and silver robes, his face shrouded and hidden by the darkness and a large draping hood.

He beckoned me closer when I hesitated, with open arms. It was like I was then propelled to go to him like nothing else mattered. I wanted to go. I wanted to be with the person. And in turn, as soon as I was close, I was swept against their chest and surrounded by their robes/cloak.

When I looked up to see who it was, it was Sans, his glowing white eyelights shining softly down at me with a big, almost reverent grin on his face. Everything felt safe and he reassured me that everything was going to be okay and that he would keep me safe. He had been waiting for me.

The dungeon shifted and changing all around us in flashing light and overwhelming darkness (there was muffled panicked sounds of the other adventurers and growls from creatures in the background in the shifting tunnels), but he kept me close to his chest as he watched everything change. (My head came just under his chin)

I (physically) woke up after we were teleported to the ending Boss room. He had looked down at me, cupped my face, then slowly (and gently) kithed me on the lips~

...

Yes. 10/10 would want to dream it again.

Stay tuned for inspired story blip...

[chaos--station]

Friendly reminder that guilds still exist. If you want to learn a new skill or if you're already passionate about a skill and want to be around fellow creatives, some guilds have online classes and meetings. Some even have a 'try before you buy' option where you can attend an in-person meeting or join in on a class for free. If you like the vibes and have the funds for it, you can get a membership.

And it's not limited to fiber crafts either. I learned today that there's a knife maker's guild for my state and a bread baker's guild for the US.

[codex-archive]

CRAFTS — 200/262 — Journeymen and apprentices

A journeyman was a craftsman’s assistant. If he went out into the world to ply his trade, he needed to have a vocational certificate and the tools of his trade. Rarely did journeymen stay in one workshop for an entire year. Typically they were there for just a few weeks, on one week’s notice, paid by the day (‘journée’). If a journeyman left without agreement (absconded), he was ‘proscribed’, outlawed from hire by other workshops, his identity written down and disseminated. An apprentice was a boy accepted into apprenticeship by a master craftsman in a special ceremony before other guild masters. Entry was made possible by paying a fee in cash and beeswax. Wealthier boys might complete their apprenticeship in as little as one year, while poorer ones had to work off their debt over several years.

TRIVIA

— Following the completion of apprenticeship, a journeyman in some parts of Europe was expected to undertake a period of travel known as the Wanderjahre (wandering years). Such travelling journeymen were called wandering journeymen. This practice, originating from the medieval period, required the craftsman to spend several years moving and working between towns and regions. A customary duration of three years and one day was most common, even today. The tradition was particularly widespread in the German-speaking lands, but was also known in France and parts of Scandinavia. It was observed across a variety of crafts, including carpentry, joinery, metalworking, millinery (hat making), instrument manufacture, and other trades. In the Middle Ages, the number of years spent travelling differed across crafts. Only after half of the required travelling years (Wanderjahre) would the journeyman register with a guild for the right to train up as a master. After completing the travelling years, he could settle in a workshop of the guild and after several more years, he would be allowed to produce a "masterpiece" and to present it to the guild. With their consent he would be promoted to guild master and as such be allowed to open his own guild workshop in town. A part of a journeyman's attire in the Middle Ages could have contained a golden earring or a golden bracelet; they could be sold during hard times or they served as payment for the gravedigger if they died on the road. Today, the night before setting off from home, a future journeyman traditionally hosts a farewell party. Over the course of the night, a hole is made in their earlobe with a nail, for an earring to wear throughout the journey. Tradition holds that anyone who breaks the rules will have the earring torn out, marking that person with a cleft lobe, or a "split-ear", a German term for a crook.

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[gorepup]

a mercenarius and their hired guilds