EN-KARA FAIR 2026

Action Items:

--- Post informational posts in SCoG*, Blue Caste of Gor, and on the Discord #Scribe thread with dates of the fair, Caste Days, and a call for presenters - After the Saturday meeting.

--- Individual contact and commitment to present, call for topics or other activities and presenters in SCoG*, Blue Caste of Gor, and on the Discord #Scribe thread

--- Tell the group members that we will be back at them for commitments in January.

--- Leave the groups alone until January. 

POTENTIAL TOPICS FOR PRESENTATION & DEBATES

Scribe Summit 2024 - List of Presented Topics

This is to provide ideas for possible topics at the 2025 Scribe Summit. They are listed in the order which they were presented and are intended to inspire your ideas as to possible topics for the upcoming Scribe Summit.

Topic                                                           Presented by                     Presented at 

Map Making: Cartography                       Ar Barbosa                        Summit 2024

Scribe Training: IC or OOC or Both?       Astary Pendragon             Summit 2024

Job Opportunities in the Scribe Caste   Trygg Tyran                        Summit 2024

Scribe Subcastes                                        Abraham Jacobson          Summit 2024

Gorean Laws                                                 Victoria Forstander         Summit 2024

Scribes are Ideal Goreans                           Discussion                        Summit 2024

Dealing with Different RP Styles                Edgar Regulus                   Summit 2024

Free Companionships                                   Unidentified                      Summit 2024

Forms & Apps to Help Scribes                     Abraham Jacobson           Summit 2024

So You Want to Lead Your Caste                  Unidentified                        Summit 2024

Caste vs Clan - Caste Work in the North     Billie Ann Bravin               Summit 2024

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LIST OF EVENTS AT THE EN'KARA SARDAR FAIR 2025

Saturday, March 15

Noon SL - Scribe Mixer - Social event to meet scribes of other cities

Sunday, March 16  

10 am - Southern Government of Gor

Noon SL - Scribe Slaves

2 pm SL - Law of Gor

4 pm SL - Southern Government of Gor

Monday, March 17

10 am - Scribe Paperwork

Noon SL - Scribe Slaves Discussion

2 pm SL - Law of Gor

4 pm SL - Scribe Paperwork

Tuesday, March 18

10 am - Moderating

11 am SL - City/Gor Interface: The problems of Gor- wide Conventions

1 pm SL - Law

3 pm SL - City/Gor Interface: The problems of Gor- wide Conventions

Wednesday, March 19

Scribes Day at the Sardar Fair - Informal discussion and Q&A all day. 

Thursday, March 20

10 am SL & 4 pm SL - How to Make a Free Companionship Contract

11 am SL  - Fundamentals of the Scribe Caste

Noon SL - About the Moons

Friday, March 21

10 am SL & 4 pm SL - Being an Ambassador

Saturday, March 22

10 am SL & 4 pm SL - Home Stone Ceremony

11 am SL - Gorean Magistrate

2 pm SL - A Proposal to Standardize the Gorean Calendar 15 min explanation  with debate following

3 pm SL - Fundamentals of Scribe Caste

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Topics at September 2025 Scribe Summit

Role of the Ambassador - Abraham

Scribe and Magistrate Caste Codes -Abraham

The Use of Rumor in SL Newspapers - Myriam

Magistrate Q&A Session for Attendees - Kati

Calendar Standardization1 - Beginning of the year and leap years - Hermes

Geography -Victoria Forstander

Ambassador Class - Negotiations - Abraham

The Legality of an Unowned Slave and Slave Honor - Is There Such a Thing - Fogaban

Calendar Standardization 2 - Year Count - Which Year are we in? Presentation and Discussion - Hermes

Magistrate - Advocate - Tools for Investigation - Abraham

Role and tools of the Ambassador - Abraham

Anatomical Autopsy for Advocates of the Law and Magistrates - Sababyna

Map Making - Victoria Forstander

On the Size and Movement on the moons of Gor

Initiate Law - Tariq ibn al Samini (Blessed Tariq)

Ubarate vs Tatrixate - Victoria Forstander

From my AI

Suggested Topics for a Scribe Conference

Day 1: Foundations of the Caste

•     History and Role of the Scribes in Gor (Apprentice)

Overview of the caste’s duties, traditions, and ethical codes.

•     Basic Calligraphy and Script Forms (Apprentice)

Practice in neat, legible writing; introduction to stylus, ink, and parchment.

•     Record‑Keeping 101: Ledgers, Contracts, and Inventories (Apprentice)

How to maintain accurate records for merchants, fairs, and city archives.

•     The Oath of the Scribes (Apprentice)

Ceremony and meaning of the oath; discussion of honor and neutrality.

Day 2: Practical Applications

•     Cartography and Map‑Making (Apprentice → Intermediate)

Basics of drawing maps, symbols, and scales; advanced techniques for senior scribes.

•     Legal Documentation and Court Records (Intermediate)

How scribes record trials, judgments, and decrees.

•     Diplomatic Correspondence (Intermediate)

Formal styles of letters between cities, castes, and fairs.

•     Archival Preservation (Apprentice)

Methods for storing scrolls, protecting against weather, and cataloging.

Day 3: Advanced Studies

•     Philosophy of Neutrality: The Scribe’s Role in Conflict (Advanced)

Debates on impartiality, truth, and political pressures.

•     Comparative Scripts: Turian, Tahari, and Northern Variants (Advanced)

Study of regional writing styles and translation challenges.

•     Mathematics and Accounting for Trade (Intermediate)

Advanced numeracy, currency conversions, and merchant contracts.

•     Historical Chronicles and Epic Records (Advanced)

Techniques for documenting wars, treaties, and cultural events.

Day 4: Collaborative & Ceremonial

•     Public Readings and Recitations (Apprentice)

Apprentices practice reading aloud from scrolls in formal settings.

•     Ceremonial Salt Records at the Fair (Apprentice → Intermediate)

Recording trade of red, white, and yellow salts; symbolic importance.

•     Joint Session with Merchants: Contracts and Trade Agreements (Intermediate)

Roleplay negotiation and documentation.

•     Closing Symposium: The Future of the Caste of Scribes (Advanced)

Philosophical discussion on evolving duties and traditions.

🖋 Apprentice‑Level Topics (Best for Beginners)

•     History and Role of the Scribes

•     Basic Calligraphy and Script Forms

•     Record‑Keeping 101

•     The Oath of the Scribes

•     Archival Preservation

•     Cartography (introductory level)

•     Public Readings and Recitations

•     Ceremonial Salt Records (introductory level)

Debate Topics:

Resolved: That, in accordance with Gor’s male-dominant societal structure, women shall not be permitted to hold positions of authority such as Magistrate or Head of Caste within our caste.

Resolved: That Merchant Magistrates shall be selected exclusively by members of the Merchant Caste, and not appointed from among the Scribes.

 I want to re-propose these two old stories, I hope you like them......

NEW DAY

 

 

    I wander around the lonely Oasis. I try to memorize every corner of the city and the island, Lucy isn't there yet, perhaps she sleeps in her rooms, and as I always did in the Northern village I love walking in the morning looking for a quiet corner where I can sit and admire the beauties of nature. The first birds are already flying among the trees, some very colorful parrots are on the still branches observing me, some little monkeys jump noisily on the branches with their cries, everything around is in bloom and the bushes are so green after the brief rain of the night.

      It is not difficult in the early morning to meet someone who goes into the forest to collect coconuts or scented flowers, some women at the stream kneeling on the bank beat their clothes and I silently pass by, some recognize me and greet me with respect, but I don't want to disturb them from their beautiful work as housewives.

      Having climbed a small slope, I look back, in the distance towards the palace and scan the windows where the beautiful Lucy will surely be with her maids preparing for the morning walk in the large garden, but I see nothing else, only a wisp of smoke rising high from the kitchens, the women are already preparing lunch and dinner for the day.

      I emerge from the thicket of palm trees onto a small beach by the sea, beautiful and isolated, I don't think anyone ever comes here, in fact I tell the guards to bring some chairs so I can rest and admire the sunrise when I go out in the morning for my usual walk.

   A wonderful thing just far from the beach, two dolphins play chasing each other in the water, their jumps resemble the dances of the palace dancers, behind the small cliff you can glimpse the ships outside the port waiting their turn to enter and unload the goods .

    Finally I find a small rock and I sit down, I take off my sandals and I put my feet in the still cold water of the night, and I look at the Sun which, coming out like a yellow ball of fire, spreads its rays, I look far away towards that Sun, and the my thoughts run far away, it is not long since I left the village of Hammersgaard, the beautiful Nani sir Erik and all the other Vikings who have given me their hospitality and friendship over the years, it was not easy to separate from them, but my place and here in the Oasis, now that no one from my family lives anymore, except my sisters and my parents who adopted me by taking me to the North in the village of Finnur Fjiord, but I haven't seen them for many years now, even if the love for they never end.
 

   Lucy told me that she loves me so much. I also can't help but think of her, and soon I hope to be able to take her to the Temple for the Ceremony, and who knows maybe one day I will have children with her-

 

    After the death of the Emir, sadness had invaded the Oasis there was no future, fate was raging against the El Nairad family, first Darian, then Orlando, the population mourned their Emirs.

     One day a ship arrived at the port from the North, it had the insignia of the Vikings, but it also had a banner of the eL Nairad family, the guards surprised to see the insignia ran to the Commander in the guard post, they reported about that strange ship that had just arrived , he, suspicious, went to the port to investigate if that ship was really strange, Viking ships often arrived from the North with furs and forest products, but this time something shook the Commander, on the bridge together with some Warriors there was a man with long black hair, he looked very much like the Emir who everyone in the gulf and in the Thassa Sea thought was dead after being shipwrecked in the storm.

   The Commander hurriedly climbed aboard along the steep gangway escorted by two trusted men, and was even more amazed to see that imposing man with his icy gaze scanning everything around as if looking for something, arriving on the bridge and then having introduced himself, the commander welcomed the man by asking him for his credentials, and his amazement increased when the man told him his name was Ulysses of Korat, one of Pascia's sons, who escaped death thanks to a slave who had hidden him in a basket and had brought him to Korat, in the Shendi region, he said that he was the eldest son of the Pasha, but with a different wife from the other sons, and that to escape the raiders and Bedouins of Cartassa, he boarded a Viking ship and of having lived with them in the North for many years, even though he had traveled a lot and studied, and now knowing of the death of his brothers he had rushed to the Oasis to help the population continue their happy lives with a man in command, now that they there are more heirs he had become the new Pasha.

    The news quickly spread around the island, everyone rushed to the port to pay homage to the new Pasha Ulysses of Korat, this was the name the Vikings had given him. Great celebrations were organized and the long closed palace was opened to the newcomer and every window was festively decorated, the celebrations lasted a week according to tradition, after which life slowly began to move forward, the happy people worked and the Pasha he knew how to command those people firmly and wisely.

      But the Pasha wasn't happy, he was alone, he didn't have a partner, often in the evening he would go to the port, sit on the dock and look at the infinite in search of something lost, he was looking for love. One fine day while he was walking around the city greeted by everyone, a foreigner caught his attention, she wasn't excessively showy, she wore simple but well-made clothes, she walked haughtily with her guard, their eyes met and it was love at first sight, her deep blue eyes, her long blond hair, her long and tapered face, had won him over, Ulysses approached the woman asking her name and who she was and where she came from, she blushed after for that handsome and haughty man, even if he didn't yet know who he was, she said her name was Mariagiovanna, but everyone calls her Lucy, I've just arrived, she said, from the far west, in a region with a large gulf and I'm passing through here on my way. to the Sanctuary.
   

     Ulysses was so enraptured by the beauty of that woman, he invited her to the palace for a big party that would soon take place... she accepted without knowing who that man was, and they parted with the promise of seeing each other again at the palace.

        Lucy's surprise was great when she arrived at the palace and everyone bowed as she passed, until she reached the end of the hall where Ulysses was sitting on the throne waiting for her, she burst into tears of joy and amazement, Ulysses took her by the hand and accompanied her to the chair placed next to him and started the party. After many dances, he spoke to him about dreams and hopes and the future, and she told her life of happiness and sadness, the Pasha asked Lucy to stay at the palace and asked her to marry her, she, scared but happy, agreed to stay and promised to love him all his life and to give him children for his Kingdom.

     Now she lives in the Oasis, she furnishes her rooms and those of the children who will come, she spends a lot of time with Ulysses, hugging him and kissing him in return

TRAVEL FROM tASSA SEA TOWARD tHAHARI  DESERT (CARTASSA) 

 

Our Oasis was now a reality, the castle was renovated even if a little gloomy, the houses of the inhabitants were built, life had taken the right direction, the ships arrived, the word had spread throughout the Planet of the new Oasis,

 

Oasis was now a reality, the castle was renovated even if a little gloomy, the houses of the inhabitants were built, life had taken the right direction, the ships arrived, the word had spread across the Planet of the new Oasis, all the ships Pirates, who left or were headed to Anango, sailing from North to South, or headed towards the large cities of Brundisium, Port Kar, or even further east up the Wosk river, towards the Olni river, with the city of the same name, very large very rich, or towards the Thentis river, from where the track starts for the Great Sardar, or for the Sanctuary, thousands of young people every year, before they turn twenty-five years old, have to make the Pilgrimage.

Some Captains at the port were talking about the En-Kara fair, it was the great celebration of the Gorean New Year, on that occasion thousands of people from all over the planet exhibited their goods, I had never been to that fair, I always felt the leader of the Merchants, sometimes the Ambassador, and I was curious to see her, the Oasis was now built, everything was calm and I had excellent administrators, I no longer had ties, Margot with the slave Alika, left to return to the island of Leisure, I had no more news from them, I was alone now, I had the desire to cross the desert again and see again the place where I was born, in the great Tahari desert, and from there passing through the glorious city of AR, I would go to proud, this year there was going to be a conference of Scribes and Magistrates and I didn't want to miss it.

I organized the trip in every detail, I wanted to disembark at the port of Ship Rock, I wanted to revisit the places of my childhood, I remember that Korat, the city where I lived with my adoptive father, Sir Mith and Lady BB, had fallen to the Panthers of the forest, we fled at night to Ship Rock and from there, we embarked for the North, Leaving ruin and death behind us

I didn't take many men with me, just some trusted guards and some slaves, the crossing to the mainland wasn't very long, we passed by the island of moor, they had rebuilt it but much smaller, I had lived there, many memories emerged in my mind, but I closed my eyes, so as not to remember, the next day we disembarked at the small port of Kanras, now everything had changed, we asked if any caravan was headed for the desert, after speaking with many Bedouin merchants, they finally told us that there was it was a possibility of a caravan, but only for the Four Palms oasis, the next day finally, they warned me for a caravan, which went down to Kargash, then Turia, Omen valley, Kataii, and finally we would arrive at the Two Scimitars Oasis, it was there that the great En-Kara fair would be held that year, they told me that the city of Tor was at war with the city of AR, for this reason, we would cross the desert from further south, keeping stay away from any trouble.

It promised to be a long journey, I wasn't prepared enough, I hadn't crossed the desert for many years, and I had some small fears, about the unknowns of the future, we set off with a certain enthusiasm, but sometimes the future proves to be different from reality, therefore something terrible was waiting for us around the corner.

In fact, after leaving Gargash headed for Turia, the horizon darkened, the Caravan leader said that we would stop, due to that storm coming, I was not prepared for this new test that the King Priests were sending us, we relied on the skill of the Bedouins, who identified a clearing protected by some rocks, with extreme speed they tied the tents together, dug a large ditch in the sand, we covered ourselves with sheets and blankets, it was something terrible, it lasted for a few hours, the wind carried away everything it encountered on his way, even some Camels disappeared from the field, carried away by that terrible wind, finally everything passed, the merchants counted the damage, collecting as much of their goods and animals as they could, the leader of the Merchants after a careful evaluation, decided it was better to reach the city of Cartassa, a little further north, we would have bought them back food and water, I didn't know

darianelnairad-editor 

  A LONG JOURNEY IN THE REGION OF THE PANI CIVILIZATION, VISITING SOME VILLAGES 

NARA ISLAND

     

I was eagerly waiting to leave for the North 

. on the route of the Pani villages (descendants of the Japanese people on Planet Earth).

CITY OF DAPHNA

 Lady Sabayna had sent me the travel program, I had published it, but in the end I set out alone, first passing through the village of Hammersgaard, where I met Lady Tania, who was busy preparing security in the village, because the snow is already covering everything and everything needs to be protected until spring.

 Then I went into the archipelago that includes the Pani Islands, first Kamura Island, then Nara Island and finally Daphna Island. I also wanted to visit the city of Selnar but the weather conditions were adverse. I will do so soon.

 I met my friend Aiko for many years, she showed me the beauties of the beautiful city of Kamura, and told me about their customs and traditions, I will post some photos to represent the Pani cities, I hope you will enjoy getting to know a world made up of kind people and beautiful women in their costumes, I had already told you years ago about a Pani village where I was hosted with kindness, and with all the honors, a peaceful people who trade with the Planet, but when needed they are also great warriors.

darianelnairad

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