Arratan Gamble - Revision history

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	==Overview==		==Overview==
	The Arratan Gamble stands in northern [[Tassato#Enterio\|Enterio]], in [[the League]] [[territory]] of [[Tassato]]. Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble grants an [[Imperial title]]; a seat on the [[~~Imperial~~ Bourse]]; and a seasonal bounty of valuable white granite.		The Arratan Gamble stands in northern [[Tassato#Enterio\|Enterio]], in [[the League]] [[territory]] of [[Tassato]]. Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble grants an [[Imperial title]]; a seat on the [[Bourse]]; and a seasonal bounty of valuable white granite.

	==The Resource==		==The Resource==

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	As with all white granite Bourse seats, the holder of the title is determined during the Summer Solstice. As an Imperial seat, any Imperial citizen may participate in the auction and hold the title.		As with all white granite Bourse seats, the holder of the title is determined during the Summer Solstice. As an Imperial seat, any Imperial citizen may participate in the auction and hold the title.

	Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[~~Imperial~~ Synod]].		Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Synod]].
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Otmar van Holberg.jpg\|caption='''Otmar van Holberg''', Custodian of the Arratan Gamble\|align=left\|width=300}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=Otmar van Holberg.jpg\|caption='''Otmar van Holberg''', Custodian of the Arratan Gamble\|align=left\|width=300}}
	{{RecentElections\|Arratan_Gamble}}		{{RecentElections\|Arratan_Gamble}}
	[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]		[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]

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	==The Resource==		==The Resource==
	The Gamble is a large quarry; it's claimed that on a clear day the Arratan Gamble is visible from the tallest spires of the city. In addition to the white granite produced in the Gamble, the quarries of ~~Entario~~ are known for producing fine masonry stone using in construction throughout Tassato and the central Empire.		The Gamble is a large quarry; it's claimed that on a clear day the Arratan Gamble is visible from the tallest spires of the city. In addition to the white granite produced in the Gamble, the quarries of Enterio are known for producing fine masonry stone using in construction throughout Tassato and the central Empire.

	Official records have always named the quarry Arratan Gamble, but the quarry has also been known as Lerner’s Folly, and most often The Poor Choice. The reason is simple; as the ruination of many a citizen, the quarry is believed to be cursed. According to rumour, Ernesto Lerner von Temeschwar was the first of the victims claimed by the quarry. The first Imperial citizen to hold the Seat, he was an inveterate gambler. Within six months of taking the Seat, he was murdered - hurled off the top of the quarry by one of his many debtors. In plays and stories, Ernesto is killed by a group of people, each of whom had been promised the full production of the Arratan Gamble as collateral on a loan, or inducement to invest in his campaign to take the Bourse seat.		Official records have always named the quarry Arratan Gamble, but the quarry has also been known as Lerner’s Folly, and most often The Poor Choice. The reason is simple; as the ruination of many a citizen, the quarry is believed to be cursed. According to rumour, Ernesto Lerner von Temeschwar was the first of the victims claimed by the quarry. The first Imperial citizen to hold the Seat, he was an inveterate gambler. Within six months of taking the Seat, he was murdered - hurled off the top of the quarry by one of his many debtors. In plays and stories, Ernesto is killed by a group of people, each of whom had been promised the full production of the Arratan Gamble as collateral on a loan, or inducement to invest in his campaign to take the Bourse seat.

Hailmur at 16:56, 24 September 2025

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	Still, a wise Seat apportions the bounty of white granite provided by the Seat cautiously; is careful never to get into debt; and gives the actual quarry itself (and its workers) a wide berth.		Still, a wise Seat apportions the bounty of white granite provided by the Seat cautiously; is careful never to get into debt; and gives the actual quarry itself (and its workers) a wide berth.
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}		<!--{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}-->

	==The Bourse Seat==		==The Bourse Seat==
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	====Seat on the Bourse====		====Seat on the Bourse====
	Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble comes with a seat on the Imperial Bourse. For the most part, this Seat comes with no additional responsibilities. It is an Imperial title that grants the right to participate on the rare occasion when the Imperial Bourse as a body is required to make a decision.		Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble comes with a seat on the Imperial Bourse. For the most part, this Seat comes with no additional responsibilities. It is an Imperial title that grants the right to participate on the rare occasion when the Imperial Bourse as a body is required to make a decision.
	====Bounty of ~~white granite~~====		====Bounty of White Granite====
	The Seat has control of a source of white granite and receives Bourse certificates to represent that control. They can dispense this resource as they choose. Production is 25 Imperial wains of white granite every season.		The Seat has control of a source of white granite and receives Bourse certificates to represent that control. They can dispense this resource as they choose. Production is 25 Imperial wains of white granite every season.
	===Appointment===		===Appointment===
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	Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].		Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].
			{{CaptionedImage\|file=Otmar van Holberg.jpg\|caption='''Otmar van Holberg''', Custodian of the Arratan Gamble\|align=left\|width=300}}
	{{RecentElections\|Arratan_Gamble}}		{{RecentElections\|Arratan_Gamble}}

	[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]		[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]

Novemberalice at 18:53, 30 July 2020

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	Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].		Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].

			{{RecentElections\|Arratan_Gamble}}

	[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]		[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]

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The Resource

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	==The Resource==		==The Resource==
	The Gamble is a large quarry; is claimed that on a clear day the Arratan Gamble is visible from the tallest spires of the city. In addition to the white granite produced in the Gamble, the quarries of Entario are known for producing fine masonry stone using in construction throughout Tassato and the central Empire.		The Gamble is a large quarry; it's claimed that on a clear day the Arratan Gamble is visible from the tallest spires of the city. In addition to the white granite produced in the Gamble, the quarries of Entario are known for producing fine masonry stone using in construction throughout Tassato and the central Empire.

	Official records have always named the quarry Arratan Gamble, but the quarry has also been known as Lerner’s Folly, and most often The Poor Choice. The reason is simple; as the ruination of many a citizen, the quarry is believed to be cursed. According to rumour, Ernesto Lerner von Temeschwar was the first of the victims claimed by the quarry. The first Imperial citizen to hold the Seat, he was an inveterate gambler. Within six months of taking the Seat, he was murdered - hurled off the top of the quarry by one of his many debtors. In plays and stories, Ernesto is killed by a group of people, each of whom had been promised the full production of the Arratan Gamble as collateral on a loan, or inducement to invest in his campaign to take the Bourse seat.		Official records have always named the quarry Arratan Gamble, but the quarry has also been known as Lerner’s Folly, and most often The Poor Choice. The reason is simple; as the ruination of many a citizen, the quarry is believed to be cursed. According to rumour, Ernesto Lerner von Temeschwar was the first of the victims claimed by the quarry. The first Imperial citizen to hold the Seat, he was an inveterate gambler. Within six months of taking the Seat, he was murdered - hurled off the top of the quarry by one of his many debtors. In plays and stories, Ernesto is killed by a group of people, each of whom had been promised the full production of the Arratan Gamble as collateral on a loan, or inducement to invest in his campaign to take the Bourse seat.

	After that follows a litany of unfortunate seat holders; a [[Varushka\|Varushkan]] poisoned by an apple; a [[the Marches\|Marcher]] stabbed whilst visiting the "theatres" of [[Tassato#Tassato Mestra\|Tassato Mestra]]. One notable death came when Tamani i Riqueza was killed when Mighty Franco, the largest single block of white granite ever raised from the quarry, somehow toppled over and crushed her.		After that follows a litany of unfortunate seat holders; a [[Varushka\|Varushkan]] poisoned by an apple; a [[the Marches\|Marcher]] stabbed whilst visiting the "theatres" of [[Tassato#Tassato Mestra\|Tassato Mestra]]. One notable death came when Tamani i Riqueza was killed when Mighty Franco, the largest single block of white granite ever raised from the quarry, somehow toppled over and crushed her.

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	After that follows a litany of unfortunate seat holders; a [[Varushka\|Varushkan]] poisoned by an apple; a [[the Marches\|Marcher]] stabbed whilst visiting the "theatres" of [[Tassato#Tassato Mestra\|Tassato Mestra]]. One notable death came when Tamani i Riqueza was killed when Mighty Franco, the largest single block of white granite ever raised from the quarry, somehow toppled over and crushed her.		After that follows a litany of unfortunate seat holders; a [[Varushka\|Varushkan]] poisoned by an apple; a [[the Marches\|Marcher]] stabbed whilst visiting the "theatres" of [[Tassato#Tassato Mestra\|Tassato Mestra]]. One notable death came when Tamani i Riqueza was killed when Mighty Franco, the largest single block of white granite ever raised from the quarry, somehow toppled over and crushed her.

	Those of a rational persuasion do not believe the Gamble to be cursed. Many of them blame the dissolute lives of the victims themselves, and blame poor tallies on the workers themselves. The more cynical point out that every "victim" of the curse of the Arratan Gamble has come from somewhere other than Tassato, and point to the legendary jealousy of the citizens of the twin cities. They also like to point out that no magical investigation of the Arratan Gamble has ever found the slightest trace of a curse. This absence of obvious malediction has allowed conspiracy theories to run riot - perhaps the most famous of which is the existence of a shadowy secret society immortalized in the play"''The Fellowship of the Red and Gold Mask''" - a cultish cabal made up of members of prominent guilds from both Tassato Mestra and [[Tassato#Tassato Regario\|Tassato Regario]] motivated by a crazed desire to punish any "outsider" who meddles in the feud between Regario and Mestra. Sensible people dismiss these claims as wild - albeit entertaining - fabrication.		Those of a rational persuasion do not believe the Gamble to be cursed. Many of them blame the dissolute lives of the victims themselves, and blame poor tallies on the workers themselves. The more cynical point out that every "victim" of the curse of the Arratan Gamble has come from somewhere other than Tassato, and point to the legendary jealousy of the citizens of the twin cities. They also like to point out that no magical investigation of the Arratan Gamble has ever found the slightest trace of a curse. This absence of obvious malediction has allowed conspiracy theories to run riot - perhaps the most famous of which is the existence of a shadowy secret society immortalized in the play "''The Fellowship of the Red and Gold Mask''" - a cultish cabal made up of members of prominent guilds from both Tassato Mestra and [[Tassato#Tassato Regario\|Tassato Regario]] motivated by a crazed desire to punish any "outsider" who meddles in the feud between Regario and Mestra. Sensible people dismiss these claims as wild - albeit entertaining - fabrication.

	Still, a wise Seat apportions the bounty of white granite provided by the Seat cautiously; is careful never to get into debt; and gives the actual quarry itself (and its workers) a wide berth.		Still, a wise Seat apportions the bounty of white granite provided by the Seat cautiously; is careful never to get into debt; and gives the actual quarry itself (and its workers) a wide berth.
	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}

	==The Bourse Seat==		==The Bourse Seat==
	===Responsibilities===		===Responsibilities===

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	Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].		Custodianship of the Arratan Gamble is retained for a year, or until the citizen holding the seat dies, or steps down. An Imperial Bourse seat cannot be [[revocation\|revoked]] by the [[Imperial Synod]].

			[[Category:Title]][[Category:Bourse]]

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 Still, a wise Seat apportions the bounty of white granite provided by the Seat cautiously; is careful never to get into debt; and gives the actual quarry itself (and its workers) a wide berth.
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Rafferty at 11:18, 13 February 2018

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	{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}		{{CaptionedImage\|file=Erwillian Mann.jpg\|\|caption=Erwillian Mann succeeded Thomas Talbot in the Seat<br/> during the Summer Solstice 379YE.\|title=A practical Marcher gives little credence to talk of sinister curses.\|align=right\|width=300}}
	{{Bourse Seat\|the Arratan Gamble\|white granite\|25 Imperial wains\|Summer Solstice\|As an Imperial seat, any Imperial citizen may participate in the auction and hold the title.\|and receives Bourse certificates to represent that control}}		{{Bourse Seat\|the Arratan Gamble\|white granite\|25 Imperial wains\|Summer Solstice\|As an Imperial seat, any Imperial citizen may participate in the auction and hold the title.\|and receives Bourse certificates to represent that control}}
	~~[[Category:Imperial Title]] [[Category:Bourse]]~~