Philip the Bard's Harappan Blog: Who were the Scribes and Criers?

The Criers and Scribes

Greetings pretty readers. We’ve been discussing the LC or Leadership Council. They were the ruling body of the Greenies and controlled Earth government during the entire Pax Veridis. Their genius was not their governance but their style of governance. Once they took over they began the process of moving into the background. Eventually no one knew anyone who was in the LC.

The LC became a nameless faceless puppeteer of society. They stayed so until the Knights of Tarsus, under the leadership of Harappan Mary Carmini assaulted their private compound during the Earth Revolution.

So then, how did they exert their influence? Through their two arms the Crier’s Guild and the Scribes.

The Crier’s guild actually predated the LC. They formed during the “Decades of Disaster”. As infrastructure collapsed especially in western North America the Criers began as a response to a lack of news.

The Criers affected a strict moral code and where they had influence they were considered paragons of society. They were involved with the initial spread of the Green Religion. More established media outlets would not cover the fledgling religion but the Criers embraced the Greenies.

When the LC made their move for power they incorporated the Criers into their organization.

The Criers for many decades after that maintained the appearance of independence from the LC but records show that they were in the LC’s back pocket as soon as the LC had control.

The Scribes were established by the LC to be record keepers and as the LC stepped into the background they were moved forward to be the arms and legs of the government. Hubris is the marked nature of the Scribes. They came to represent themselves as the elite of society. They even tried to suppress information that showed the Criers were an older establishment.

Both groups crumbled and disappeared as soon as the Earth Revolution began. Seen as the faces of the hated Greenies members of both groups found themselves denying their involvement.

When the Tarsans launched their assault on eastern North America people who had been in the Criers and Scribes were singled out for persecution. Many were publicly hanged.

Never mix red wine with Oodo.   

Philip Normer

Kushan Year 87

Earth Year 2479