The bells of the Royal Palace rang across Kingsford shortly after the morning sun rose above the capital's eastern walls.
Within the palace, servants and royal attendants moved through the corridors preparing the Grand Audience Hall for a ceremony that had attracted considerable attention among Westmark's nobility.
Today, King Edmund III Alden would formally grant the Adventurer Guild its Royal Charter.
The decision had been confirmed the previous evening after the King's legal advisers dismissed the final petition requesting an additional territorial consultation.
Lord Chancellor Alistair Fenwick had determined that the Charter established a Kingdom-wide legal framework without exempting individual Guild branches from applicable regional requirements.
No additional approval from all fifteen regional administrations was necessary before the King could exercise his authority.
With the last procedural objection resolved, the ceremony had been authorized.
