Construct Holberg's Melodious Cascade

Latest revision as of 14:31, 29 February 2024

To commission a sinecure “Holberg's Melodious Cascade” in Holmauer in Holberg to produce 9 mana per season. Sinecure to create the League National position “Direct of Holberg's Melodious Cascade” to be appointed annually by Senators of the League, Revocable by the Assembly of Nine, the General Assembly, and the League National Assembly. Cost 10 wains of mithril and 30 crowns labour, 3 months to construct. Self funded by Bernhard and Lula Kleist von Ennerlund and other citizens of the League; a list of the names of the citizens who provide the wains used in the cascade's construction will be inscribed near the cascade's entrance. Inspired by Abigail Ashill, Theodora von Holberg and our shared love of our great city.

Announced by Laughlan vi Temeschwar, Master of Rings

Overview

Constructs a sinecure in Holberg
Announcement by the Master of Rings

Date

Autumn 385YE

Cost

Standard costs apply
10 wains of mithril
30 crowns
Three months to complete

Progress

9 wains of mithril and 3 thrones 6 crowns provided by Lula Kleist von Ennerlund after Autumn Equinox 385YE
1 wain of mithril provided by Otmar van Holberg after Autumn Equinox 385YE

Outcome

Now completed, the position of Director of Holberg's Melodious Cascade will be available for the senators of the League to appoint for the first time at the Winter Solstice 385YE

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 ==Outcome==
-* Once complete, the position of ''Director of Holberg's Melodious Cascade'' will be available to appoint by the senators of [[the League]]
+* Now completed, the position of [[Director of Holberg's Melodious Cascade]] will be available for the senators of [[the League]] to appoint for the first time at the Winter Solstice 385YE
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-==Overview==
-The Director of Holberg’s Melodious Cascade is an Imperial title established by the Master of Rings during Winter 385YE.
-The Cascade is part of Holmauer Park, which was cursed by the Hag Queen in Summer 383YE. The Cascade is an inventive adaptation of the previously blighted landscape to the advantage of Holberg, joining The Blood Red Orchard, The Pavilion on Looking Glass Lake and Kleist’s Winter Gardens as another point of eerily fascinating interest for visitors to the Park.
-==Responsibilities==
-The Director of the Melodious Cascade is expected to work in a manner best suited to their talents towards the betterment of Holmauer in particular and Holberg in general. If the Cascade were to be threatened in any way, it would be the responsibility of the Director to deal with those threats.
-==Powers==
-===Bounty of Mana===
-The title holder gains custodianship of a sinecure. The Director receives an income of 9 crystal mana each season.
-==Appointment==
-The Director of Holberg’s Melodious Cascade is appointed by unanimous decision of the senators of the League. If a unanimous decision cannot be reached, the title may be appointed by the Imperial Senate instead.
-The title can only be held by a citizen of the League. The Director is appointed annually. They can be revoked by the General Assembly, the League National Assembly, and by the Assembly of Nine.
-==The Melodious Cascade==
-The Melodious Cascade is situated at the edge of Kleists’ Winter Gardens in the Holmauer Great Park. Cunningly wrought in mithril, it has been constructed to resemble a cliff crag, over which a nearby stream has been diverted to create a picturesque waterfall.
-At the very top, the cascade has been permanently frozen by the magical flows directed into the structure. Further down, seemingly random thaws resonate with the cunning harmonics of the fountain’s design to produce a series of musical notes as each shard of ice breaks and falls to the pool below. Very occasionally, one of the shards is infused with mana.
-It has been noted that the quality of the music changes with both the time of day and the seasons, no doubt as a result of the subtle changes in temperature and humidity interacting with the mithril structure. The variance is most noticeable at sunset, when the notes of the Melodious Cascade take on an eerie, otherworldly quality. Visitors to the Park often congregate at the Cascade just as the sun goes down, in hopeful anticipation of an uncanny experience.
-Prominently displayed at the base of the Cascade is a mithril-framed oak plaque:
-“In recognition of citizens who have contributed to the Cascade’s construction whether through coin or through expertise:  Bernhard and Lula Kleist von Ennerlund the Patrons; Abigail Ashill the Architect, and her wife Theodora von Holberg, the Inspiration; and to League citizens, particularly to Otmar van Holberg, Merchant Prince of Adelaarsgilde.”
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