Official Roles

Athesia has grown to the point that several official roles have become apparent, these are listed below. These roles do not have to be held by GMs. To apply for any of these roles, speak to anyone in the GM team and they will be able to forward your enquiry to the right place (probably John Keyworth).
== Speaker ==
Currently held by: John Keyworth
This role is in charge of organising the senate, running motions, organising the weekend.
This includes organising debates, assigning mission end times, organising missions, organising debriefs, running attrition, making or organising announcements. 
The Speaker should have full knowledge of how Athesia is run and comprehensive knowledge of the plots occurring in the various regions, ideally they should also be accustomed to public speaking and have a clear speaking voice.
== Scribe ==
Currently held by: Declan Doyle
This role is in charge of keeping the boards in the council chamber up to date. 
This includes writing up any information that the Speaker tells them to, writing up the stats for the weekend, making alterations and outlines on the map, marking republic stat changes from attrition and debriefings, marking down and tallying players and GMs for missions. 
The Scribe should have fairly neat large handwriting and be tall enough or dexterous enough to make full use of the boards. It would be good for the Scribe to be as, or similarly, knowledgeable as the Speaker, so that they can function as a secondary Speaker when the Speaker is not performing their role (due to absence either from the weekend or the room).
== The Ambassador ==
Currently held by: Deborah Landes
This role is in charge of welcoming new players, initiating them into Athesia, and ensuring their characters are well integrated into the pre-existing setting and player base of Athesia, keeping the fluff and plot consistent with the overarching setting of Athesia.
This includes making sure that new players and their characters will fit in athesia, helping navigate and avoid gm clashes with plot, helping facilitate gm collaboration, and mandatory approval of all new characters joining the council, particular important for old players with new characters.
The Ambassador would ideally be an executive member of the roleplaying society, and must have read and have a good grasp of all of the information on the wiki, as well as ideally being aware of major plot details from all of the existing plotlines of Athesia.
There may be several assistant Ambassadors as well.
== The Lawyer ==
Currently held by: Matt Wicks
This role is in charge of keeping the rules and their usage consistent over the weekend and ensuring that people are aware of them.
The idea of this role is to have one person who is the go to rules person to question and enforce, ideally they should be good at explaining both what a rule is and why the rule exists. It should also be noted that people attempting to misuse or ignoring rules should be subject to overrule by the Lawyer.
The Lawyer should ideally be heavily involved in the rule-rewriting group, have some experience with complex explaining or teaching in a somewhat professional capacity, and have read, understood, and internalised all of the rule pages on the wiki.
== The Wiki Team ==
Currently held by: Alice Morris, Matt Wicks, Ben Fuggle
This team is in charge of keeping the fluff and plot consistent with the overarching setting of Athesia, keeping the rules and their usage consistent over the weekend and ensuring that people are aware of them, and maintenance of the wiki.
The main duty of the team is of course the wiki, however due to their exposure to the wiki it is worth their experience and knowledge being called on by default by both the Ambassador and Lawyer. This includes acting as assistants to the Lawyer and Ambassador if you so wish.
The Wiki Team must have a basic grasp of wikitext, html, css, and be comfortable using the Classic Editor view for the wiki.
== The Questionnaire Team ==
Currently held by: John Keyworth, Jake Polley, Tom Hayward
This team is in charge of acquiring and collating feedback from players and GMs.
While the questionnaire is a useful tool when people fill it out, it can be difficult to get official feedback. This team should also use a reporter style technique to help get additional feedback.
Members of this team should: have a set of default questions that they try to get candid answers to as often as possible, ideally live in Colchester and/or socialise with other players of Athesia outside of Athesia. 
The team must make it clear when something is going on record, respect people's right to anonymity, and perform unbiased reporting when collating responses.
The idea is that we organise a consistent way for the team to gather responses outside of just the questionnaire, to hopefully increase our feedback. Personal quizzing needs to be handled carefully and tactfully, but should also primarily focus on new players and how they found the various aspects of Athesia.