Keeper of Aurelie's Garden

Overview

The Keeper of Aurelie's Garden is an Imperial title commissioned by the Imperial Senate in Spring 380YE. The position of keeper is a sinecure, requiring minimal responsibility but offering a regular income of valuable herbs.

The garden is in the region of Grovesyard, Astolat, near the hospital Aurelie's Rest.

Responsibilities

The Keeper has no particular responsibilities; they simply receive a bounty of herbs from the Aurelie's Garden. If the Garden were to be threatened in any way, it would be the responsibility of the Keeper to deal with those threats.

Powers

The Keeper of Aurelie's Garden is an Imperial title that grants custodianship of a sinecure.

Bounty of Herbs

The holder of the sinecure receives 10 doses of Imperial Roseweald, and 2 doses each of Cerulean Mazzarine, True Vervain, Marrowort, and Bladeroot.

Selection

The title can be held by any Navarr or Dawnish citizen. The method of appointing this sinecure deviates dramatically from the well worn path for such appointments. The title is contested each Spring between Dawn and the Navarr.

The rules of the contest are extremely straighforward:

• ten Navaar face ten Dawnish
• All skills
• The contest lasts until one person remains standing, they take the title
• Any additional rules may be determined by mutal agreement on a contest by contest basis

Removal

The Keeper serves for one year, or until they die, step down or are revoked.

The Keeper can be revoked by the Navarr assembly, the Dawn assembly, the General assembly, or the Assembly of Nine.

History

The first Keeper is due to be selected at the Summer Solstice 380YE.