Generalities

The Lannuvàr Faction is managed in a democratic fashion by way of an elected High Council (of which you are probably a part, dear reader). The main place of expression, communication and life of the Faction is our channel 💬#lannuvar-general-assembly in the Realm of Karitha (RoK) Discord.

This guide “How to Manage the Lannuvar Faction” aims to educate you in how to best execute your responsibilities as a Councillor, based upon the experience of the First Council. Please be aware that this content is not exhaustive nor definitive, and is subject to the appreciation of subsequent councils. (You are free to improve this guide!)

The High Council

You are now part of the High Council, so you must know a little bit about its functioning. You will find a dedicated page here.

Duties specific to Council role (such as maintenance of LGA, the Bank, social media) are detailed in their own sub pages.

Information essential for all Councilors is on this main page:

1) Discord, 2) Notion, 3) Etcetera

1) Discord & Channels/Servers

Discord is a community social app which has become extremely useful in developing & maintaining a web3 community.

Tutorial found here: https://discord.fandom.com/wiki/Discord

The Realm of Karitha Discord, which hosts the Lannuvar Faction, has many channels (aka servers), and several are solely dedicated to Faction management. You can now see these channels because the RoK Moderators (Mods) have assigned your account permissions that allow you access (and also allows you additional actions like posting in these channels).

Do not hesitate to ask the Mods for help in the channel #support or in #lannuvar-h-council if a fellow Councillor may know the answer.

Roles & Tagging

So now you have the role “Lannuvàr High Councillor”, you can tag other counselors using @special-role-name, or tag all Lannuvarii using @lannuvar. Former Councilors have the @Lannuvari Elders role. ElrondArt | Ben has the role @Illustrator of Lannuvar, Grandmaster of Imaginations, and jamesjstrider has the role @Founding Father of the Lannuvàr Democracy.

Now is a good time to introduce the:

of which all Councilors must understand the basics. Please review them as needed.

Discord channels outlined:

🧙#lannuvàr-high-council: this is the main discussion channel of the Council; keep most of our high-level Lore discussion and ALL of our sensitive economic planning out of the LGA chat, for maximum role-playing value. Ask for Staking and Treasury wallet access from the Mods here (or perhaps in the #lannuvar-wallet- channels mentioned below) until the multi-sig is available #high-council-vote: a special channel that allows you to make decisions among council members; the Mods will only honour policy votes made here, NOT those made in the #votes channel. Read that last line again, please. #lannuvar-faction-application: this channel allows you to accept someone into the faction, which will give them the @lannuvar role and allow them access to the faction channels! The vote of only one advisor is necessary to validate the acceptance of a new member. #lannuvar-card-requests: this channel allows you to award a member who requests it a Faction Card. These Cards are precious items, so the positive vote of at least 3 advisors is necessary to grant these cards— it is recommended to make good use of them. At time of writing the Mods review all requests once 3 ✅ votes are achieved (the process is not automated yet). Receiving a Faction Card takes days, not hours— manage expectations. (Arguably, restrict access somehow! We are the humans with elite bloodlines, in the role playing sense. Most humes will flock to Iron Light or Cenarion.) #lannuvar-wallet-dashboard: This channel is accessible to the whole faction but is an important tool for any advisor. It offers an overview of the faction’s possessions on the community wallet (aka The Treasury), to Stake and Un-Stake genesis buildings (function only usable by a Moderator for the moment, you must ask for help), and to see the faction’s daily $REALM production. This ties into Bank of Lannuvár manangement & strategies, naturally. #lannuvar-wallet-logs: this channel is accessible to the whole faction but is an important tool for any advisor. It allows visibility on the Council’s interaction with the official Faction wallet (aka ”The Treasury”). #very-important-lannuvarii: a channel that all the special role holders of the faction can access: elders, artisans, and special personages but not regular LGA members. First Council decided this must exist, and Lo, the Devs gave it to us. Let this amazing truth inform your own actions and decisions, my brethren!

Council of Valgarde

As Councillor you can now also access areas of Discord that gather all the faction leadership: Lannuvár, Iron Light, Hodir, Kalu’ak and Cenarion. There are channels to give news for publication in the #karitha-times for example, or a #discussion channel that is free-form and well named. Explore and represent us as your talents best direct you.

2) Notion

You’re reading content made with Notion right now! It is an online note-taking application, yet also used by the Council as a website editor and as a showcase for its work. Notion has two interfaces: one in the background that allows any connected Council member to log in and edit content; it also has the public-facing showcase, which displays the content via another website, supersite.so.

Because the Council has only a basic version of Notion, we all connect via the same email address (lannuvar.karitha@outlook.com) so please keep this in mind while drafting and editing.

Notion is quite intuitive, and updates as soon as you change pages— there is no save button! We advise you to make tests before any intensive use and to make regular exports of your critical data, off-site. Please find here a wiki about Notion. The page tree is almost infinite, depending on your organization! Keep in mind, however, that the most important thing is the good reading by our dear Lannuvarii and visitors: so keep an eye on how your infrastructure and visuals look here, on our Supersite.

Third Council further organized the Notion into topic sections:

The Lannuvárii and Our Governance

The Bank of Lannuvár

The Lore of Lannuvár

Social Media Links

The first two present our functioning, bring information on the councils, the decisions and laws implemented; and of course to bring transparency on the financial operations of the faction and the projects created.

The Lore of Lannuvar allows Councils to compile all of the writings that build our faction’s mythos and lore and so is placed under the responsibility of The Wise to curate and maintain.

Guess what? This How To Manage… section is yours to improve and is an ongoing gift between Lannuvári Councils.

3) Twitter Management

The Ambassador General will maintain and publish content to our official account on Twitter, @lannuvar. As of mid July we have the most popular account of the 5 Factions of Karitha.

Any governance or branding decisions are expected to be discussed within Council and/or LGA, yet our A.G. on First Council worked very well as an independent agent for much of the term. Building Follower count and promoting other Factions & and RoK main account are the core tasks.

3) Economic Management

Sharing Treasurer duties between several Councillors proves tedious yet rewarding! Supreme Treasurer must update Notion as well as use the wallet.multiversx.com site fearlessly. Every transaction record must be shared publicly, here on the 💱Account Book of the Bank; a new temporary wallet for each Council seems an extremely cheap and recommended best practice.

Treasurer Duties

Overall responsibility: manage the assets (wallets & Smart Contracts) that represent the Bank of Lannuvár assets; maintain transaction records (txs) on this site.

Secondary tasks: raise funds & increase assets for the Faction in any creative way possible.

Future tasks: expect multisig (more than one person approving all the actions) wallet technology in Karitha before much longer— you will become expert in this, and will then no longer need to ask the Team to Stake/DeStake NFTS from the Treasury wallet.

Main task, Monthly Bond interest airdrops:

• Lannubonds issued by the First Council on frameit
• Collection ticker
• LANNUBONDS-65509e
• REALM monthly distro amount
• 8.33 per Bond NFT
• Here are all bond holders’ and lots of Bond info
• if you wish, generate a spreadsheet (choose .CSV and then upload to Google, etc)
• you can also use omniscient.tools to find holder data

Utility ("Temporary") Wallet used to manage them, and NFT purchases

• Use this site wallet.elrond.com to log in to the utility wallet
• https://explorer.elrond.com/accounts/erd14050e86ekj4uzqq8sy5a3gujvzj4whr8psd98wxvdv0ukyg7wemqj93srf
• Ask the devs (or use multisig, do it w/o devs if available) to unstake enough REALM & have this ready in the Utility wallet (log this receipt in the 💱Account Book of the Bank)
• Send 8.33 REALM for each bond, to each holder, beginning around midnight 0000 UTC the first of each month
• this concludes with final payment July 1st, 2023
• final payment also sends 500 $R to each bond
• You really may wish to make a new wallet just for your Council’s term, so you can ensure you have full control
• the keystore or .pem file to control this wallet, and any others you may use, is your responsibility!

Ensure every transaction (tx) is added to 💱Account Book of the Bank , in the big table

Rely upon the Ambassador General, and anyone you can, to help find artists and projects to collaborate with and bring Glory and wealth to Lannuvár.

Optional Automation Spells, requires Python magicks & use of Terminal

Then generate a .pem file in order to control the wallet. Never share this to a cloud drive, or give it to anyone else!

To Conduct the Monthly Realm Payments

Use this guide to get un-stuck

• Known Valgardians who wield SC magicks, may be able to help if asked collegially:
• andu
• DzArmyOfOne
• SkullElf
• seypopi
• J4cks

Uncertain how best to award Faction Cards. Opinions varied in our Council as to how selective our membership ought to be, yet First Council erred on the friendly side because it was very early in the Realm.

3) Democratic Engagement

Communicate Council progress with updates in #announcements; we did not do this regularly at first. Yet it seems essential— the High Secretaries are the dedicated managers of Discord, yet here again the First Council saw many of us pitching in to help author posts and communicate with the Faction membership.

Polls in discord! Seems like a tool we did not utilise enough, because the LGA loves voting for decisions, but also for opinions on Lore and etc! Surprising amounts of engagement came from simple questions in the #votes channel.

Represent any “inside information” or any messages you receive from the Devs, Mods, and the leadership of the RoK as best you can. Do not apologize for their decisions, but also do not criticize them unnecessarily— we are all eager to see a playable RoK ASAP and negativity is extremely toxic and unwanted in a recreational space.

Of course, this goes for your fellow Councilors, too! We are here to build, to learn, and to share one another’s gifts.

n) Create your NFT Collections on FrameIt.gg

First Council (in the era before multi-sig, without a dedicated SC dev) used Frameit.gg as our minting service. This proved successful and even allowed us to change the owning wallet (to steer the royalties back to the Treasury, from the temporary wallet used to mint).

Recommended practice! Worked extremely well for 📜Lost Pages .

They now offer a limited voting feature via SC, and this idea of valuable voting gadgets could really work well with a democratic bunch of bankers…

Authorship:

🟣J4cks, 🦉LTKzY The Wise, 🟣Arkalus