[Archers] Queen's Request

[Charles Sprouse]

Hello fellow archers,

     Forgive me, I have been remiss in sending this much earlier as I have had many things going on in my mundane life as well as gearing up for the AMAZING royal archer shoot we just had.  At any rate, at Sapphire Joust the queen called me aside after court as her Archery Champion and talked to me for a few minutes, and asked me to forward a comment and a request to the archery community as a whole.
     She said she realizes that Atlantian Royalty as a whole, not just the current ones but pretty much across the board, do not do alot of recognizing members of the archery community, especially for specifically archery-related things.  She said, and I quote: "there are far too many Atlantian archers doing amazing things and winning too many out of region and out of kingdom events and impressing too many people for there not to be archers in need of recognition that they are not getting."  She apologized for that, and then went on to explain that the primary reason for this is that they [the royals] rarely know anything about us.  What I mean by this is that, as we all know, we spend most of our time at events somewhere in the back forty, often far away from most of the rest of the event.  And as the saying goes, out of sight, out of mind.
     Regardless of what everyone's feelings are regarding any royals, past or present, or towards why this problem has been a problem for so long, I think it would serve all of our best interest to take this proffered olive branch for what it is.  What she is requesting to make it simple is to start hearing a LOT more from the archery community in terms of recommendations of people who need and deserve to be recongized, whether it be for a major award or even for just a royal shout-out in court.  If it needs to be done, they will not know unless we tell them.
     Sorry this rambled, but I wanted all to hear all that I heard from her.  :)

In service,
Karl von Konigsberg
Atlantian Kingdom Archery Champion
Dun Carraig Baronial Archery Champion
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