Order of Sygwin

The Order of the Harada Sygwin is a prominent Maninist Order and voting member of Concourse. They take as their patron Harada a certain Sygwin, an Occaran peasant who lived through the Great Ordeal. Their headquarters are located in Halen. 
===History===
===Practices===
Sygwin is held to have exemplified the virtues of diligence, loyalty, and persistence. Sygwini are expected to work, and bend themselves to whatever task they are set until it is complete, however long that takes - a common joke has a Sygwini initiate planting an acorn because his superior wants firewood. Traditionally the Order has a horror of 'putting on airs', and initiates are often virtually indistinguishable from the people around them, save that they are always engaged in at least somewhat arduous labour; the Sygwini are decidedly contemptuous of soft-handed Tehavis or Piriveni who only move numbers around. The Order's support is strongest among relatively well-to-do farmers and urban craftsmen.
===Organization===
The Sygwini Order is organized into councils of initiates, not entirely unlike the teltalhers of the north, that handle the local Order property and set tasks for the initiates. These councils can range in size from a dozen men in the sparsely populated frontier, to many hundreds around the great cities; in the latter case the actual business is typically conducted by a much smaller, unofficial subcommittee of the most senior initiates. Each regional council sends a Speaker to the Order general council, which itself selects a Greatspeaker to lead the Order and represent it at Concourse. It differs from most other major Orders in that the focal points are typically rural, rather than urban, areas, and so it lacks for the most part the easily identifiable central buildings of the rest. The Sygwini are responsible for a great many of the public works in the Halyrate, and are often contracted by other Orders for their own projects. 
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