Sol-Regis Royal Academy – Main Courtyard. Morning – Summer Festival Opening.
The atmosphere of this year's Summer Festival was fundamentally different from the decadent, disorganized spectacles of years past.
Traditionally, the Academy's festival was little more than an arena for the high nobility to flaunt their excess. It was characterized by winding, hour-long queues for overpriced delicacies, overflowing and neglected sanitation facilities, and an "aristocratic schedule" that viewed punctuality as a secondary concern. It was a week of beautiful chaos, but chaos nonetheless.
However, this year, under the iron-fisted yet surgical management of the Head of Logistics, Raphael Sudrath, the festival operated with the terrifying precision of a high-grade mechanical watch.
