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Ghyll:DasMineGold

2005-06-11T01:20:46Z

Sirbobthethird: Creation of glorious article!!!

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"Oooite is nifty." -popular saying, attributed to [[Gadsringer Clubberspear]]

It is rumored that at the first general meeting of DasMineGold, Gadsringer Clubberspear, who was the founder and first President of DasMineGold, opened the three-day gala with these immortal words.

However, the [[Bureau of Regained Knowledge]] is being a little pile of [[splak]], and has yet to release the minutes of that meeting to verify this rumor.

However, since Clubberspear has stepped down, DasMineGold has degraded, until it is now an unethical corporation, now holding a monopoly on oooite mining. The very thought of it makes me vomit. However, it is an entry which must be told, and tell it I will.

==[[Gadsringer Clubberspear]] (92 - 51 EC)==
Clubberspear originally founded DasMineGold in response to a bet undertaken from some of his buddies - he gained the total bet of fifty Quezloos after proving that he could, in fact, create a mining corporation worth more than a thousand quezloos. According to a popular story, when the bet was collected, Clubberspear came close to blowing the fifty quezloos something shiny (he was known for his lack of common sense), but was dissuaded when he realized that it was actually just painted shiny, and would easily scratch off. What '''is''' known, however, is that Clubberspear continued at the reigns of DasMineGold, kept the company all about mining, and led them to record profits.
Despite constant cajoling, threats, etc., the [[Bureau of Regained Knowledge|BORK]] has refused to give exact numbers for the profits obtained until long after Clubberspear stepped down. But we do know that the profits were record-breaking.

At first, DasMineGold was mining various resources, including highly prized minerals (what exactly minerals they were, is unavailable - thanks a lot [[Bureau of Regained Knowledge|BORK]]) but when Clubberspear acquired the Azura Mines, home to 71% of Ghyll's supply of oooite, the other mines suffered from neglect, contributing sharply to the next president, Himminfen, selling them.

It is unfortunate that the [[Bureau of Regained Knowledge]] releases little knowledge on DasMineGold's greatest president, or the details of it's founding, especially its unusual name.

==Mack Himminfen (50 - 7 EC)==
Completely corrupt, credited with the rising monopoly and the shift away from public input, Himminfen was a complete jerk. One of his first acts of his presidency was to sell virtually all the mines, except for of course, the real money-maker - the [[Azura Mines]].
He was offered the position only because no one else would take it (too stressful, they claimed, but there were rumors at the time that the [[Amphitheatre aristocracy]] was going to cause trouble for the next president -completely unfounded rumors) and he accepted and continued only for the money. His annual salary was estimated at 200,000 Quezloos a year. He also frequently accepted "contributions" (bribes) from other corporations, including, it is believed, a mansion in lower [[Evesque Valley]], although the only source that has mentioned this is [[Aliens Everywhere]].

When Himminfen realized that profits were sinking faster than a stone in [[fefferberry]] wine, he decided to sell the company to the highest bidder – except, without the bidding. He just sort of gave it away to [[Godfroi Hasawithe]]. It is believed that when he sold DasMineGold and stepped down from the presidency (most likely to avoid the negative repercussions to come), he himself received 600,000 Quezloos personal payment from Hasawithe, and a "going-away package" of 200,000 Quezloos from the company itself.

==Jack Marksfields (6 EC - Present)==
Marksfields has had little time to fight the fight left for him by his predecessor, but it appears he has had little interest in doing so. He mostly appears to ride the wave, which ever way it may be taking him. Most recently, he has, after moderate public pressure, approved the DasMineGold Center for Azurian Inquiry, which claims to be an outpost of the [[Aminfarances Institute of Science and Technomancy]]. It operates in association with the mines in investigating the economic and sculptural possibilities of the ore. Current projects include various types of dwellings, the [[NeoPostAncientism]] mobiles, now on display at the [[Zaprosingfrink Gallery]] and something shiny, which they refused to comment on.

'''Citations''': [[Azura Mines]], [[Gadsringer Clubberspear]], [[NeoPostAncientism]].
--[[User:Sirbobthethird|Sir Robert G. Head III]] 21:20, 10 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Ghyll:DasMineGold

2005-06-10T23:21:11Z

Sirbobthethird:

Dibberzzz!!!

(Yay! My first article! I hope I can do a good job in a matter of hours...)

In the future, put <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> after your dibs, and pretty much everything else you do as well. This creates an automatic signature. --[[User:Dfaran L'Eniarc|Dfaran L'Eniarc]] 18:49, 10 Jun 2005 (EDT)

k. Thanks.

--[[User:Sirbobthethird|Sirbobthethird]] 19:21, 10 Jun 2005 (EDT)

Ghyll:DasMineGold

2005-06-10T22:37:37Z

Sirbobthethird: Dib!

Dibberzzz!!!

(Yay! My first article! I hope I can do a good job in a matter of hours...)

Ghyll:Bureau of Recovered Knowledge

2005-05-27T03:02:02Z

Sirbobthethird: /* History */ linking meldersen

You have by now noticed that an alarming number of articles in this publication contain the phrase "Nothing is known ..." or variants thereof. This is, of course, more than simply a coincidence. Between the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, and enormous amount of information is officially unknown, even though, technically, it's not actually unknown, you know? No, officially, of course, you don't.

As per tradition, very little is known of the BORK, but this article will reveal all that is known, and considerably more.

==History==

The Bureau of Recovered (or, sometimes, "Regained") Knowledge was founded as a solution to Supetupheraraphes's Paradox which states that "once Forgotten Knowledge is uncovered by a researcher, it is no longer Forgotten and hence cannot be written down."

Under the executive privilege of [[Meldersen]], the second president of The [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], it was decided that there should be a subdivision known as the Bureau of Regained Knowledge.

Since that time, the two Bureaus have existed in a very healthy tension. Indeed, there are those who think that they are symbiotic to the point of fraud. By trading knowledge back and forth - finding and then unfinding it - they have been able to create the appearance of useful progress for generations.

Frequently, either the BOFK or the BORK will declare a certain thing to be unknown, and this statement is blindly accepted by even the most careful of historians. This, more than any other factor, explains the fact that many articles stating that the history of a particular thing is unknown, may be roundly contradicted by information given in another article, presumably by someone who did not read the relevant edict, or who was just too pig-headed to care.

To quote one particular historian, who asked not to be named:

<blockquote>I know you know I know I don't know what I know I know, but I know that you know that I know what I know, and I know that you know what you know you don't know. You know?</blockquote>

This, of course, is officially heresy.

==Function==

Officially, the function of the BORK is simply to maintain the existence of the BOFK. That is, when Forgotten Knowledge is discovered, it is transferred to the BORK, so that it can be retained.

In reality, the [[Odlucian Library]] does a find job of holding on to the body of Ghyllian knowledge, thank you very much, and this leaves the BORK largely without function. So, they dedicate themselves to re-losing and re-forgetting knowledge, so that they may perpetuate their symbiotic relationship with the BOFK. Thus, they declare a particular area of knowledge to be unknown, and, with this declaration, branches of knowledge are returned to the purvue of the BOFK, so that they can, at a later date, be handed back to the BORK.

Large bribes are likely involved. Although it is not actually known how large these bribes are, I can report that I was paid a fairly significant amount to say that.

==The Underground==

There is a large underground movement dedicated to ignoring the proclamations of the BORK. They have adopted the name most frequently applied to them - [[The Uninformed]] - as an ironic admission of their ignorance of the official reality.

==Disclaimer==

Everything in this article, beyond the initial historical facts, is heresy, and, officially, false. Nice paradox, hmm?

--[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 17:31, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

Citations: [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], [[Odlucian Library]], [[The Uninformed]]

Ghyll:Bureau of Recovered Knowledge

2005-05-24T22:51:41Z

Sirbobthethird: /* History */ Fixing a fragment, adding BOFK link

You have by now noticed that an alarming number of articles in this publication contain the phrase "Nothing is known ..." or variants thereof. This is, of course, more than simply a coincidence. Between the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, and enormous amount of information is officially unknown, even though, technically, it's not actually unknown, you know? No, officially, of course, you don't.

As per tradition, very little is known of the BORK, but this article will reveal all that is known, and considerably more.

==History==

The Bureau of Recovered (or, sometimes, "Regained") Knowledge was founded as a solution to Supetupheraraphes's Paradox which states that "once Forgotten Knowledge is uncovered by a researcher, it is no longer Forgotten and hence cannot be written down."

Under the executive privilege of Meldersen, the second president of The [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], it was decided that there should be a subdivision known as the Bureau of Regained Knowledge.

Since that time, the two Bureaus have existed in a very healthy tension. Indeed, there are those who think that they are symbiotic to the point of fraud. By trading knowledge back and forth - finding and then unfinding it - they have been able to create the appearance of useful progress for generations.

Frequently, either the BOFK or the BORK will declare a certain thing to be unknown, and this statement is blindly accepted by even the most careful of historians. This, more than any other factor, explains the fact that many articles stating that the history of a particular thing is unknown, may be roundly contradicted by information given in another article, presumably by someone who did not read the relevant edict, or who was just too pig-headed to care.

To quote one particular historian, who asked not to be named:

<blockquote>I know you know I know I don't know what I know I know, but I know that you know that I know what I know, and I know that you know what you know you don't know. You know?</blockquote>

This, of course, is officially heresy.

==Function==

Officially, the function of the BORK is simply to maintain the existence of the BOFK. That is, when Forgotten Knowledge is discovered, it is transferred to the BORK, so that it can be retained.

In reality, the [[Odlucian Library]] does a find job of holding on to the body of Ghyllian knowledge, thank you very much, and this leaves the BORK largely without function. So, they dedicate themselves to re-losing and re-forgetting knowledge, so that they may perpetuate their symbiotic relationship with the BOFK. Thus, they declare a particular area of knowledge to be unknown, and, with this declaration, branches of knowledge are returned to the purvue of the BOFK, so that they can, at a later date, be handed back to the BORK.

Large bribes are likely involved. Although it is not actually known how large these bribes are, I can report that I was paid a fairly significant amount to say that.

==The Underground==

There is a large underground movement dedicated to ignoring the proclamations of the BORK. They have adopted the name most frequently applied to them - [[The Uninformed]] - as an ironic admission of their ignorance of the official reality.

==Disclaimer==

Everything in this article, beyond the initial historical facts, is heresy, and, officially, false. Nice paradox, hmm?

--[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 17:31, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

Citations: [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], [[Odlucian Library]], [[The Uninformed]]

Ghyll:Bureau of Recovered Knowledge

2005-05-24T22:21:40Z

Sirbobthethird: /* Function */ just added link to "odlucian library"

You have by now noticed that an alarming number of articles in this publication contain the phrase "Nothing is known ..." or variants thereof. This is, of course, more than simply a coincidence. Between the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, and enormous amount of information is officially unknown, even though, technically, it's not actually unknown, you know? No, officially, of course, you don't.

As per tradition, very little is known of the BORK, but this article will reveal all that is known, and considerably more.

==History==

The Bureau of Recovered (or, sometimes, "Regained") Knowledge was founded as a solution to Supetupheraraphes's Paradox which states that "once Forgotten Knowledge is uncovered by a researcher, it is no longer Forgotten and hence cannot be written down."

Meldersen, the second president of The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge, under his executive privilege. It was decided that there should be a subdivision called the Bureau of Regained Knowledge.

Since that time, the two Bureaus have existed in a very healthy tension. Indeed, there are those who think that they are symbiotic to the point of fraud. By trading knowledge back and forth - finding and then unfinding it - they have been able to create the appearance of useful progress for generations.

Frequently, either the BOFK or the BORK will declare a certain thing to be unknown, and this statement is blindly accepted by even the most careful of historians. This, more than any other factor, explains the fact that many articles stating that the history of a particular thing is unknown, may be roundly contradicted by information given in another article, presumably by someone who did not read the relevant edict, or who was just too pig-headed to care.

To quote one particular historian, who asked not to be named:

<blockquote>I know you know I know I don't know what I know I know, but I know that you know that I know what I know, and I know that you know what you know you don't know. You know?</blockquote>

This, of course, is officially heresy.

==Function==

Officially, the function of the BORK is simply to maintain the existence of the BOFK. That is, when Forgotten Knowledge is discovered, it is transferred to the BORK, so that it can be retained.

In reality, the [[Odlucian Library]] does a find job of holding on to the body of Ghyllian knowledge, thank you very much, and this leaves the BORK largely without function. So, they dedicate themselves to re-losing and re-forgetting knowledge, so that they may perpetuate their symbiotic relationship with the BOFK. Thus, they declare a particular area of knowledge to be unknown, and, with this declaration, branches of knowledge are returned to the purvue of the BOFK, so that they can, at a later date, be handed back to the BORK.

Large bribes are likely involved. Although it is not actually known how large these bribes are, I can report that I was paid a fairly significant amount to say that.

==The Underground==

There is a large underground movement dedicated to ignoring the proclamations of the BORK. They have adopted the name most frequently applied to them - [[The Uninformed]] - as an ironic admission of their ignorance of the official reality.

==Disclaimer==

Everything in this article, beyond the initial historical facts, is heresy, and, officially, false. Nice paradox, hmm?

--[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 17:31, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

Citations: [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], [[Odlucian Library]], [[The Uninformed]]

Ghyll:Bureau of Recovered Knowledge

2005-05-24T22:17:01Z

Sirbobthethird: /* The Underground */ Just adding link to "the uninformed"

You have by now noticed that an alarming number of articles in this publication contain the phrase "Nothing is known ..." or variants thereof. This is, of course, more than simply a coincidence. Between the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, and enormous amount of information is officially unknown, even though, technically, it's not actually unknown, you know? No, officially, of course, you don't.

As per tradition, very little is known of the BORK, but this article will reveal all that is known, and considerably more.

==History==

The Bureau of Recovered (or, sometimes, "Regained") Knowledge was founded as a solution to Supetupheraraphes's Paradox which states that "once Forgotten Knowledge is uncovered by a researcher, it is no longer Forgotten and hence cannot be written down."

Meldersen, the second president of The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge, under his executive privilege. It was decided that there should be a subdivision called the Bureau of Regained Knowledge.

Since that time, the two Bureaus have existed in a very healthy tension. Indeed, there are those who think that they are symbiotic to the point of fraud. By trading knowledge back and forth - finding and then unfinding it - they have been able to create the appearance of useful progress for generations.

Frequently, either the BOFK or the BORK will declare a certain thing to be unknown, and this statement is blindly accepted by even the most careful of historians. This, more than any other factor, explains the fact that many articles stating that the history of a particular thing is unknown, may be roundly contradicted by information given in another article, presumably by someone who did not read the relevant edict, or who was just too pig-headed to care.

To quote one particular historian, who asked not to be named:

<blockquote>I know you know I know I don't know what I know I know, but I know that you know that I know what I know, and I know that you know what you know you don't know. You know?</blockquote>

This, of course, is officially heresy.

==Function==

Officially, the function of the BORK is simply to maintain the existence of the BOFK. That is, when Forgotten Knowledge is discovered, it is transferred to the BORK, so that it can be retained.

In reality, the Odlucian Library does a find job of holding on to the body of Ghyllian knowledge, thank you very much, and this leaves the BORK largely without function. So, they dedicate themselves to re-losing and re-forgetting knowledge, so that they may perpetuate their symbiotic relationship with the BOFK. Thus, they declare a particular area of knowledge to be unknown, and, with this declaration, branches of knowledge are returned to the purvue of the BOFK, so that they can, at a later date, be handed back to the BORK.

Large bribes are likely involved. Although it is not actually known how large these bribes are, I can report that I was paid a fairly significant amount to say that.

==The Underground==

There is a large underground movement dedicated to ignoring the proclamations of the BORK. They have adopted the name most frequently applied to them - [[The Uninformed]] - as an ironic admission of their ignorance of the official reality.

==Disclaimer==

Everything in this article, beyond the initial historical facts, is heresy, and, officially, false. Nice paradox, hmm?

--[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 17:31, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

Citations: [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], [[Odlucian Library]], [[The Uninformed]]

Ghyll:Bureau of Recovered Knowledge

2005-05-24T22:16:10Z

Sirbobthethird: /* Disclaimer */ Just adding links to the citations - no worries

You have by now noticed that an alarming number of articles in this publication contain the phrase "Nothing is known ..." or variants thereof. This is, of course, more than simply a coincidence. Between the Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge and the Bureau of Recovered Knowledge, and enormous amount of information is officially unknown, even though, technically, it's not actually unknown, you know? No, officially, of course, you don't.

As per tradition, very little is known of the BORK, but this article will reveal all that is known, and considerably more.

==History==

The Bureau of Recovered (or, sometimes, "Regained") Knowledge was founded as a solution to Supetupheraraphes's Paradox which states that "once Forgotten Knowledge is uncovered by a researcher, it is no longer Forgotten and hence cannot be written down."

Meldersen, the second president of The Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge, under his executive privilege. It was decided that there should be a subdivision called the Bureau of Regained Knowledge.

Since that time, the two Bureaus have existed in a very healthy tension. Indeed, there are those who think that they are symbiotic to the point of fraud. By trading knowledge back and forth - finding and then unfinding it - they have been able to create the appearance of useful progress for generations.

Frequently, either the BOFK or the BORK will declare a certain thing to be unknown, and this statement is blindly accepted by even the most careful of historians. This, more than any other factor, explains the fact that many articles stating that the history of a particular thing is unknown, may be roundly contradicted by information given in another article, presumably by someone who did not read the relevant edict, or who was just too pig-headed to care.

To quote one particular historian, who asked not to be named:

<blockquote>I know you know I know I don't know what I know I know, but I know that you know that I know what I know, and I know that you know what you know you don't know. You know?</blockquote>

This, of course, is officially heresy.

==Function==

Officially, the function of the BORK is simply to maintain the existence of the BOFK. That is, when Forgotten Knowledge is discovered, it is transferred to the BORK, so that it can be retained.

In reality, the Odlucian Library does a find job of holding on to the body of Ghyllian knowledge, thank you very much, and this leaves the BORK largely without function. So, they dedicate themselves to re-losing and re-forgetting knowledge, so that they may perpetuate their symbiotic relationship with the BOFK. Thus, they declare a particular area of knowledge to be unknown, and, with this declaration, branches of knowledge are returned to the purvue of the BOFK, so that they can, at a later date, be handed back to the BORK.

Large bribes are likely involved. Although it is not actually known how large these bribes are, I can report that I was paid a fairly significant amount to say that.

==The Underground==

There is a large underground movement dedicated to ignoring the proclamations of the BORK. They have adopted the name most frequently applied to them - The Uninformed - as an ironic admission of their ignorance of the official reality.

==Disclaimer==

Everything in this article, beyond the initial historical facts, is heresy, and, officially, false. Nice paradox, hmm?

--[[User:DrBacchus|DrBacchus]] 17:31, 22 May 2005 (EDT)

Citations: [[Bureau of Forgotten Knowledge]], [[Odlucian Library]], [[The Uninformed]]

Ghyll:Carsokian

2005-05-18T00:39:51Z

Sirbobthethird: /* Territory and Influence */

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The '''Carsokian''' Clan has haunted the halls of history in Ghyll since at least -400 {{EC}} and have been quietly making things happen the entire time, rather like very determined dung lice. Always attempting to stay off center stage, they have turned up now and again in the most interesting historical records. Almost a kind of aristocracy, without all the pretty bows and ribbons, they are the most immensely diverse conglomeration of families in Ghyll.

==Clan History==
Of course, the history of the Carsokian Clan is almost the history of Ghyll itself. The Clan traces its lineage back to Sylvia Brunnhilda Carsokian who was the [[Grand Matriarch]] during the [[Battle of Barnum Stones]]. Indeed, there has been rumor that they were the original Exingians behind the entire conflict. The Clan was known, even back in -400 {{EC}}, as quite violent traditionalists. Of course, when they were soundly trounced by the [[Looliers]], Sylvia took her three sisters, whose names are lost to history, and her ten daughters and nieces, and fled their Cranee homeland. It was a cold, cold Ablinth in -322 {{EC}} when they settled in the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]] and began gathering up husbands from the local stock. All of this was directed by Sylvia herself, earning her the well deserved title of the Grand Old Bitch. She was a hard woman for hard times and it is in her memory that the Clan began to trace its lineage through their daughters.

The Clan then disappeared from view for quite some time, until roughly -183 {{EC}} when several of the Clan moved back from the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]] to Cranee, and shortly joined with several of the local families in forming the [[Cranee Historical Society]]. Since then, even the remotest Clan members have been considered members of the Society, even if they didn't know it. It was several years later, in -175 {{EC}}, that the Society "discovered" the Clan was related to [[Captain Riquiras|Captain Tuta Riquiras]], before he'd turned pirate. The very next year, when the Captain took his first merchanter, the Society "discovered" a mistake about that particular line of the Clan lineage and disowned him. The Husslespear family has never quite regained their reputation. However, all was not lost, for in -157 [[Encyclopedant Calendar|EC]], just a year after the removal of the [[Battle of Barnum Stones|Barnum Stones]] to [[Stindersgrough]] by Corvin Axehand, he was suddenly "related"! Indeed, that year there were an extraordinary number of Moonbeam Meetings in celebrations of "Cousin" Axehand, the Cranee Patriot.

It was into this high-point of the Clan's history that Mary Elizabeth Carsokian was born and groomed to be the clan head. She rose to that position on a fine, warm Ulfsday in Gomin of -100 [[Encyclopedant Calendar|EC]], on her 57th birthday. With her that day, according to the [[Cranee Historical Society]] records, was her young, freshly married daughter Aleksandra Mary Blackgold, and her young niece Sylvia Beth Panderlock, who would lead the clan into the modern age. It is also in this year that the highly educated [[Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway]] made her great discoveries regarding [[ghoulwood viola|ghoulwood]] and the [[supranatural luminescence meter|supranatural luminescence]].

==Territory and Influence==
The various families that make up the Carsokian Clans are spread far and wide. The majority of their influence is in the [[Andelphracian River Valley]], but they have representatives as far as the [[Evesque Valley]] and the [[Sarfelogian Mountains]]. Indeed, there are those who have speculated that they are purposely marrying off their daughters to particularly wealthy buffoons who are easily manipulated simply to expand their reach into heretofore unreachable spheres of influence.

They also have notable enclaves in the Vale of Serdoch and [[Alezan]], with a particularly large population in [[Baleman|the Baleman neighborhood]]. Though their numbers remain small, they still seem to have inordinate control of certain commodities and political powers. They claim that they have no particular clan head or chieftain, but it is well known that Sylvia Beth Panderlock is most often looked to as the steering senior member of the clan.

==Breeding==
One of the few families of its kind to engage in an actual eugenics program, the Carsokian Clan has very carefully, and quite successfully, chosen with whom to intermarry. They have strengthened stock that should have naturally died out many, many generations ago. They seem to be as tenacious as the [[Fefferberry|wild fefferberry]], which is their family crest.

Also, it may be inferred that their regular ingestion of both [[Fefferberry|fefferberries]] and [[Bofu|bofu]] weed out the weak and slow early on. You'll find no philology students, phonology professors, rhetoric scholars or whimsicists amongst this hardy stock! So, despite a number of social and societal issues which have kept their numbers smaller than one would expect, they are exceptionally long-lived. Often they are found in quite physically demanding professions, in which they remain active until late in life. In fact, they are more often found dead at their chosen trade than in bed.

==Social Customs and Conventions==
Conservative by nature, these closed-lipped families are often pillars of the community, especially in repressive, "stiff-necked" neighborhoods. They can often be found at the head of angry mobs wielding torches and pitchforks.
Almost to a member, they all belong to the [[Cranee Historical Society]], though it's hard to tell why, since it has devolved into little more than a joke. Seriously, a historical society that is little more than a drinking and tree-toasting club? Why bother? Unless, of course, it's really something more sinister...

Often, their familial conservatism goes beyond simple social or political reservation and expresses itself in a kind of tradition-bound pantomime of current fashion and culture. For example, the ridiculous adherence to the [[Bofu|bofu]] consumption rituals attached to the [[betrothal march]]. No sane person would, of course, wish to excrete anything that glows no matter how useful it may be for passing travelers lost in the dark. Still, the Carsokian Clans adhere to this most ancient of customs. In fact, it is believed that this has contributed to their low birthrate and high instance of intermarriage with other, much less uptight, clans.

==Infamous Members==
Frustratingly, as the Clan tracks "membership" via its maternal line, when they marry, Clan "membership" becomes quite a tricky bit indeed!

Some of the more infamous members include:

* '''Carsok''' - The Defiled Earth Mother, and a component of [[Vulcrue]], the founder and tutelary goddess of the Clan, at least according to [[occultologists]]. Whether she was named for the Clan, or the Clan for her, is unanswerable.

* '''[[Baron Claude Lloyd Albert Smallwood]]''' - The Baron Smallwood's mother, Aleksandra Mary Blackgold, who is descended from the rather more well known Mary Elizabeth Carsokian. He is a distant third cousin of Sylvia Beth Panderlock and was married off to [[Bavarian Creame]] in an attempt to enrich the Carsokian fortunes.

* '''Phennella''' - Of course, one of the best known members of the [[Cranee Historical Society]] must be a member of this influential clan. Unfortunately, no one has been able to determine her exact parentage and, as it is quite impolite to ask and she has not been forthcoming, we will simply lump her in via "guilt by association".

* '''Gabson Foye''' - Another fine, upstanding member of the Carsokian Clan, though a bit, well, slow. His mother, Adelaide Clementine Chimmlefut, who is the second cousin, twice-removed, of Sylvia Beth Panderlock, was initially quite pleased that he was to marry Siam Sinch, but quite put out later when it was discovered that she'd had an affair with [[Bethany Mboya]], who later turned out to be Spearholder Jan ver Daath (Retired) of the [[Tarkherk Corps]]. Luckily, the clan's fortunes do not rest on their male line alone!

* '''[[Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway]]''' - The inventor of the [[ghoulwood viola]] and the [[supranatural luminescence meter]], as well as the creator of the famous [[phaelros]] window at the Court of [[Odgar IV]]. She spent an unfortunate portion of her life trying to explain the difference between supernatural and supranatural luminescence and not enough time puttering in her lab, according to her journals.

* '''[[Captain Riquiras|Captain Tuta Riquiras]]''' - The Carsokian Clan claims the dread pirate as a member via his mother, Allison Clarinda Husslespear, who is the great, great, grandaunt of Aleksandra Mary Blackgold. But, this has been disputed since the Captain was off at sea most of his life and was not much of a record-keeper. Indeed, it has been often speculated that he didn't know his own mother at all.

* '''Corvin Axehand''' - The great patriot of Cranee is also claimed by the Carsokian Clan, though, few true scholars believe this possible. After all, that would mean that the movement of the [[Battle of Barnum Stones|Barnum Stones]] was all some kind of esoteric plot by the clan to somehow increase their status and wealth. Frankly, it doesn't seem possible that even they could be so subtle or sublime.

'''Citations''': [[Bofu|bofu]], [[ghoulwood viola]], [[supranatural luminescence meter]]

--[[User:PhineasCrank|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 22:55, 22 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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