Adventurers started as D-rank, to C-rank, then B-rank, A-rank, and finally S-rank. With few exceptions, adventurers would need to advance through the ranks one by one. By the time an adventurer was forty-five, they could expect to be B-rank. This was where most adventurers retired. A-rank adventurers were exceptional, while S-rank was assigned to only the best of the best. They were eligible to take on the guilds' most lucrative commissions and were also granted celebrity-like status.
To rise through the ranks, adventurers needed to take on commissions within their point brackets and complete them, raising their point rating. When that rating reaches above 900, they are eligible to take an adventurer promotion examination. These were held only twice a cycle near the middle and end, testing their knowledge of the Triparte Guilds' systems, conduct and etiquette, adventurer skills, etc.
One of the particularly gruelling questions in the examination were case studies asking what the adventurer would do in given situations. They had to use their knowledge of the rules and procedures of the Triparte Guilds, adventurer conduct and commission details. These were marked the harshest and were the bane of every examination.
This would be followed by a demonstration test of the adventurer's registered skills, whether it be in foraging, archery, martial arts, weapon arts, magic arts, and/or any other recognised skill.
To Guild Master Dustin Coleman, Triparte Guilds Northern Sector Administration, Guild Master Travis Vorn, Evaidas Guild Branch, sends greetings.
As we enter into the new cycle, I am very much aware that all of us are busy preparing for future events, such as the bi-cyclical adventurer promotion examinations. However, as we leave five cycles behind us, I believe it is time to review our adventurer ranking systems to decide whether they should be restructured.
Thus, I would call for a conference to be held between us at the Evaidas Guild Branch. The agenda for our conference will consist of:
Reviewing past adventurer promotion examination applications to decide whether the standards should be revised
Reviewing standards, rules and procedures for allowing adventurer promotion exceptions and exemptions
Reviewing adventurer obligations, specifically the obligations of adventurers A-rank and above
Reviewing the results of adventurer promotion examination seminars and their effectiveness to decide whether it should be restructured
Discussing whether the possibility of creating an additional bracket for adventurer ranks would be of sufficient benefit to the Triparte Guilds adventurer ranking system
I propose the 20th of March, two weeks from today. If you are unavailable for this date, please forward when you will be available so that I may review and decide upon a date compatible with all of our schedules.
Please note that the conference will take several days, so I advise you to order your work delivered to the Evaidas Guild Branch ahead of time to complete, or delegate to a reasonable degree your work to the local guild masters of your sector.
I also require you to breach two or more of the above topics for our agenda to the local guild masters of your sector and to bring their suggestions to our conference for discussion.
With regards,
Travis Vorn
Guild Master, Triparte Guilds, Evaidas Guild Branch
P.S. This letter has been forwarded to Guild Masters Hayden Beahan, Flynn Brown, Sam Spencer, Alexis Lynes, Amy Bell, and Hazel Young