Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Vixen Grimoire and Guild



Here a holiday specal heads up for those of you who wonder why and what the names mean.



The Vixen Grimoire



Maintainers Guild

Here is the technical explanation:

Vixen
Vixen is used as an epithet to describe a woman:
Vixen, a woman noted for her sexual attractiveness


Grimoire
A grimoire is a textbook of magic. Books of this genre, typically giving instructions for invoking angels or demons, performing divination and gaining magical powers, have circulated throughout Europe since the Middle Ages.

Magicians were frequently persecuted by the Church, so their journals were kept hidden to prevent them from being burned.[1] Such books contain astrological correspondences, lists of angels and demons, directions on casting charms and spells, mixing medicines, summoning unearthly entities, and making talismans. Magical books in almost any context, especially books of magical spells, are also called grimoires.


Guild
A guild is an association of craftsmen in a particular trade.

The earliest guilds were formed as confraternities of workers. They were organized in a manner something between a trade union, a cartel and a secret society. They often depended on grants of letters patent by an authority or monarch to enforce the flow of trade to their self-employed members, and to retain ownership of tools and the supply of materials. A lasting legacy of traditional guilds are the guildhalls constructed and used as meeting places. The modern patent system was set up to break the power of the guilds.

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