Kamjin recommended Xathia to me as a point of contact in CSP and I’m very glad he did. Her passion for expanding roleplaying’s place in the Brotherhood was immediately apparent. Although clan-led RPs had been chugging along for some time, that activity was almost entirely limited to Arcona, Odan-Urr, and Taldryan. Xathia’s most visible contribution to the Exarch office was serving as an RP organizer and ambassador to Scholae, efforts which have so far led to 7 members submitting in excess of 30,000 words of content.

The easy option would have been for Xathia to simply look at what other clans were doing, copy it, and hope for the best. That is not her way. Xathia dedicated several hours to a one-on-one test scenario with Raleien on CSP’s server, used lessons learned to develop a plan for taking it clan wide, and developed documentation on what that would look like.

I brought Xathia into the Exarch working group early on to get feedback from her experiences with CSP and she proved invaluable. Most of our established “DMs” did not actually come from a tabletop background, so Xathia’s perspective on how to set things up and how organizers should be compensated continues to inform my decision making as the RP system begins to mature.

Xathia also did most of the working group’s research into the feasibility of synchronous, video-based sessions to emulate the tabletop experience. This included the aforementioned test session and digging into available voice transcription software, which itself involved researching potential recording, logging, and export functions for Discord. Although we ultimately did not implement a system from “approved” virtual tabletop sessions, the fact that I was able to even have intelligent, fact-based discussions about it with the Grand Master and the Dark Council is largely due to Xathia’s legwork.

Alethia Archenksova, Exarch

Headmistress Alethia Archenksova, 2022-04-11 21:10:52 UTC