The Guild

Among these organizations were guilds and parish churches. It is said there were numerous political, welfare, and religious groups. On public holiday these organizations would gather together in the spirit of comradery. An account of Florence written by Gregorio Dati, examines these groups…

healer, in the game) who with the help of a kind guild, conquered dungeons, slew bosses, and led raids. Here I finally learned how to collaborate with others, ask for help without feeling ashamed, and expand my perception of issues without a specific solution. A…

The first time the party (and the player) are introduced to Rose, it's when they meet the merchant guild, the Sparrowfeathers. Rose serves as their leader, and has all the charisma, charm that one would expect from a merchant. As a leader she's responsible and reliable, and is able to deal with (and make the decisions for) effectively two different guilds. When making decisions, Rose is, first and foremost, someone who almost always follows her gut. She's gifted with a good business sense, and…

television series of Sookie Stackhouse. For her performance in the same, she conquered the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance in 2009. Her hard work paid off when she got nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for a long haul in the film Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007) and Golden Globe Award for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009). She got a chance to try a different genre and worked in a horror film Trick’r Treat as Laurie which…

Many great inventions have been invented and one of the greatest developments in modern technology has been the invention of video games. Therefore, video games are instrumental to many people in this day and age. Most people, especially parents, overlook the benefits of gaming such as how it can improve our social life and helps in cognitive development of teenagers when they are at a tender age. However, too much gaming can lead to addiction causing possible problems such as truancy from…

The First Crusade was a conflict between the Christians of Western Europe and the Muslims of Jerusalem. The Crusade was initiated in 1095 by Pope Urban II in response to the Byzantine emperor's call for help defending against the invading Seljuk Turks. On November 27, 1095, in Clermont, France, Pope Urban II called for a crusade both to help the Byzantines defend the Turks and to conquer Jerusalem. From the First Crusade, Europe made great economical gains. Europe benefited from the First…

works remain influential masterpieces to this day. He trained in the circle of exceptionally skilled illuminators and miniaturists like Bartolomeo di Fruosino and Battista di Biagio Sanguini . Giovanni’s place in this circle allowed him to join the Guild of St Luke around 1442. Through this association Giovanni meets a fellow artist named Marco del Buono and together they run the most important workshop in fifteenth-century. They produced decorated furniture panels (‘cassoni’, wedding chests,…

During the Renaissance period of the 14th to 17th century, art and architecture between Northern Europe and Italy were both similar and different in many ways. From the detailed work of everyday life of the North to the Neoplatonic allegories of Italian work, the Renaissance was a time of transition and strength. The most dominant similarity between Northern European and Italian Renaissance artwork lies behind the meaning of humanism. During the Renaissance, there was “rebirth of culture”; a…

Quetzalcoatl from Aztec myth. Lyra ducked under one of the giant green serpent's wings and slashed at it with her saber in an eight-part combo. The Boss's HP dropped from two bars to one. She grinned as she darted back and switched out with Jan, one of her Guild members. They were almost done. Once they…

In the 16th century, the Queen Mother Pendant Mask (pictured on the cover page) was created in the Kingdom of Benin to honor the Oba (King) Esigie’s mother, Idia, the first “Queen Mother” (or “iyoba”) of Benin.*************** (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum) The people who created this were known as the Edo people, also called “Bini”, who are located in today’s southern Nigeria and speak a Volta-Niger language, which is one of the branches of the Niger-Congo language family.…