📜 CODEX ENTRY: The Guild of Seers: Origins and Oversight

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Compiled by: Archivist-Seer Lureth of the Vault of Retained Thought

Preservation Class: Active Authority | Memory-Stamped | High Visibility

“We did not rise to guide.We rose to prevent the fire from spreading again.”— Tarnis Veil-Binder, Founder of the Guild of Seers

🕯️ The Origins of the Guild

The Guild of Seers was not forged in hope, but in desperation.

Following the War of False Dawn, the Orcish world stood on the edge of collapse—not from famine or conquest, but from unregulated memory, unfiltered prophecy, and the reawakening of belief systems shattered by the Demon War.

It was in this chaos that Tarnis Veil-Binder, a former Ash-Walker seer turned reluctant reformer, laid the philosophical groundwork for what would become the most controversial institution in modern Orcish society.

The Guild was first assembled not as a council of wisdom, but as a containment structure—a living flame-chamber in which the remnants of prophecy could be held, measured, and interpreted before it could spread like wildfire through already-burned lands.

🔥 Foundation Documents

• The Doctrine of Measured Flame (23 A.A.) – Tarnis's foundational philosophy, stating that prophecy, memory, and sacred flame must be regulated to preserve civilization.

• The Vision Index Mandate – Declares that no prophetic utterance may circulate without scribed interpretation and archival review.

• The Spiral Containment Charter – Defines procedures for isolating memory corruption, vision spirals, and glyph-born prophetic contagions.

These were not merely rules. They were walls against collapse.

⚖️ Oversight Structure of the Guild

The Guild operates independently of Hasgram’s central governance, bound only to the principles of memory regulation and containment.

Hierarchy of Oversight:

Title	Role
High Seer of the Flame	Spiritual and administrative head of the Guild; final authority on vision classification
Circle of Measured Thought	Tribunal of interpreters who analyze, redact, and approve all public prophecy
Warden of the Archives	Oversees containment of forbidden scrolls, memory spirals, and relic visions; bonded to the rune-defense systems
Inquisitors of the Flame	Field agents tasked with detecting unauthorized visions, rogue glyph activity, and false seer cults
Memory-Bearers	Individuals trained to retain volatile visions in living memory when no parchment may safely hold it

📚 Primary Functions of the Guild

• Regulation of Prophecy – All visions must be transcribed, interpreted, and measured before dissemination.

• Memory Preservation & Redaction – History is preserved in layers: public, restricted, and sealed. No memory is destroyed, but many are hidden.

• Seer Licensing & Oversight – Only Guild-sanctioned seers may legally interpret visions. All others are considered unstable or dangerous.

• Cultic Countermeasures – The Guild is the primary authority on identifying and suppressing vision-driven heretical movements such as the Blackened Root and Cult of the Black Dawn.

🩸 Controversy and Independence

The Guild of Seers was not always part of the state.

Originally conceived as an independent safeguard—an agency sworn only to the Doctrine of Measured Flame—it operated outside of political hierarchies. Its sole allegiance was to the preservation of memory, containment of prophecy, and the survival of order through regulated flame.

But in the decades following the War of False Dawn, Hasgram’s rising leadership saw the necessity—and the danger—of keeping the Guild at arm’s length.

Gradually, the Guild was incorporated into the structure of the state.

Today, it serves as the magical arm of the Hasgramite government, functioning in parallel with:

• The Office of the Highlord – Oversees governance, diplomacy, and internal unity

• The Office of the Warmaster – Manages Hasgram’s military command and readiness

• The Guild of Seers – Regulates all prophetic, magical, and memory-related activity within Hasgram and its vassal regions

While still claiming doctrinal autonomy, the Guild now receives state funding, coordinates regularly with Warmaster-led missions, and advises the Highlord on matters of magical threat and historical continuity.

This shift has provoked concern among traditionalists who believe the Guild's true purpose—to regulate memory for the good of all—has been compromised by its proximity to political power.

To the cults it suppresses, it is a tyrant.

To the Highlord, it is an instrument.

To the people of Hasgram, it is both a shield and a silence.

“They call us tyrants. Let them. We carry the memories that would kill them to hold.”— Seer-Legate Veth of Gor’molar, 41 A.A.

📘 See Also:

• 📜 The Doctrine of Measured Flame

• 📜 The Guild of Seers: Enforcement Doctrine

• 📜 The War of False Dawn

• 📜 The Vault of Forgotten Flame

• 📜 Prophecy as Contagion