Event Details

Event ID
191179
Target
Qyreia Arronen
Award
Sapphire Blade
Quantity
1
Non-site XP
0 XP
Requested by
Howlader Taldrya
Primary reason

Qyreia served as my (only) magistrate for nearly a year until his resignation. In that time, Qyreia learned about the medal and promotion recommendation processes, how competitions work, and generally - how the MAA office works.

The MAA Office is a little different from other DC offices, our large projects (or even any projects) come once every few years – and little projects are once or twice a year. The real work of the MAA Office comes in the day to day work of approving and denying medal requests, processing appointments and resignations, managing competitions (and manually editing competitions) – and knowing the nuances of our database to make competitions work (for instance, switching competition archetypes to allow manual addition of participants, and then switching it back). The biggest contribution Qyreia has made, and truly – every magistrate, praetor and MAA makes – are the discussions that occur among the staff about medals and promotions. That happens with every single sacramental award (and many of the merit), every equite and higher promotion – that is where the bulk of the work occurs.

In addition, Qyreia spent a great deal of time going through every Master at Arms related Wiki article. From the policies pages (the main one), to stale dated pages, to the rank pages. This effort took quite a bit of time, and was invaluable in two ways: First, it was a separation of the wheat from the chaff for all the MAA documentation that is out there. Second, and even more importantly: Qyreia had a new person's view, not the view of a person who has been involved in the medal and promotion system for many years (or in some cases....many decades). It was absolutely invaluable to have things that Teylas and I (and likely others) just took for granted as making sense - because we could fill in the unwritten gaps - that did not make sense. Thank you for that.

For all the work with the MAA Office, it is my pleasure to award Qyreia a Sapphire Blade! Congratulations, Qyreia!

Howlader Taldrya, 2019-06-06 20:18:59 UTC