Moving the Kingdom awards to Grant-level doesn't bug me so much. It's the new ones that give me pause. Specifically, friends, particularly in the Midrealm, have been telling me that the East needs to learn from their bad history. As they put it, they too were told the then-new AoA/GoA splits wouldn't become a checklist but it did anyway. Culturally, if perhaps not in Kingdom law, is the "We can't give her the GoA Order! She doesn't have the AoA one yet!" mindset.
I had that very sentence come up this year, and in another case the continuation of that outlook: "We can't put X in for Pelican! They don't have their Dragon's Heart (Kingdom service award) yet!" Especially when I think of people like Master John McGuire, who had his Laurel before his Maunche
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Date: 2015-10-22 03:05 pm (UTC)I had that very sentence come up this year, and in another case the continuation of that outlook: "We can't put X in for Pelican! They don't have their Dragon's Heart (Kingdom service award) yet!" Especially when I think of people like Master John McGuire, who had his Laurel before his Maunche