This is kind of what I mean- I think as the number of White Scarf Kingdoms increase, gradually there will be a move to standardisation from within. That's how I think it will happen, anyway. Eventually, I suspect, D'wald will either join the Whitescarf Kingdoms, or will sign a Treaty of Equivilancy. I think eventually we'll feel like 'the odd ones out', as it were.
Although it's important not to confuse the Academy and it's awards with the ODS, or similar. That would be like saying, 'We have a Guild of Caligraphers, so we don't need an award for Caligraphic Excellence from the Crown.' (Or at least, similar!) The Academy, at least in D'wald, is a Guild, and the ranks are entirely internal. The ODS is an award given by the Crown.
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Date: 2008-09-19 04:49 pm (UTC)Although it's important not to confuse the Academy and it's awards with the ODS, or similar. That would be like saying, 'We have a Guild of Caligraphers, so we don't need an award for Caligraphic Excellence from the Crown.' (Or at least, similar!) The Academy, at least in D'wald, is a Guild, and the ranks are entirely internal. The ODS is an award given by the Crown.