The Citizen Registration Centre
Found within the Halls of Ivy, the Citizen Registration Centre is one of the many areas of the official building. The modestly sized rooms resembles its neighbours, boasting sweeping arches, stout pillars, and intricate carvings surrounding stained glass windows. Its interior could be described as cold and foreboding. There is a wide waiting hall with limited wooden seating, supervised by a plain-clothes member of the Intelligence Authority. He or she also serves to guard the singular office; the door is always shut when the registrar is seeing an applicant.
All potential citizens of Viden, young and old, must register at this office. This includes the registration of births (though most parents leave it until they are sure that their child will survive) so the hall is often filled with Videnese and their young children, as well as outsiders wishing to live in the city - most often those who wish to study. Most often found are those born of eídisi, human or ellune parents. Near-human folk are also relatively common, and all races are welcome to apply, though the more unusual races may receive an odd look. Only one race has has yet to set foot in the office - a naerikk... it is truly unknown how such a creature would be received.
The office itself is an unnervingly small room with a single, large desk. Bordering the room, large bookshelves hold dozens of old and new tomes: copies of Videnese law that may be retrieved viewed at any time during the registration process. In the waiting hall, just outside the office, thick paper forms are neatly stacked on a narrow table. A few nearby desks supply quills and inkpots for visitors to fill out the aforementioned forms. Once the form is filled out, the applicant must present it in person to the registrar in her office. The applicant is then asked to verbally acknowledge and promise to abide by the laws set forth by the Directorate. The new citizen is then given papers that identify them as such and copies of these papers are kept on record in the Vaults beneath the Halls of Ivy.
Beneath the offices in an underground chamber, a grand vault holds copies of identification papers for each registered citizen in Viden - alive and deceased. Only the five members of the Directorate and a few high-ranking members of the Intelligence Authority have the means to access this vault.
All potential citizens of Viden, young and old, must register at this office. This includes the registration of births (though most parents leave it until they are sure that their child will survive) so the hall is often filled with Videnese and their young children, as well as outsiders wishing to live in the city - most often those who wish to study. Most often found are those born of eídisi, human or ellune parents. Near-human folk are also relatively common, and all races are welcome to apply, though the more unusual races may receive an odd look. Only one race has has yet to set foot in the office - a naerikk... it is truly unknown how such a creature would be received.
The office itself is an unnervingly small room with a single, large desk. Bordering the room, large bookshelves hold dozens of old and new tomes: copies of Videnese law that may be retrieved viewed at any time during the registration process. In the waiting hall, just outside the office, thick paper forms are neatly stacked on a narrow table. A few nearby desks supply quills and inkpots for visitors to fill out the aforementioned forms. Once the form is filled out, the applicant must present it in person to the registrar in her office. The applicant is then asked to verbally acknowledge and promise to abide by the laws set forth by the Directorate. The new citizen is then given papers that identify them as such and copies of these papers are kept on record in the Vaults beneath the Halls of Ivy.
Beneath the offices in an underground chamber, a grand vault holds copies of identification papers for each registered citizen in Viden - alive and deceased. Only the five members of the Directorate and a few high-ranking members of the Intelligence Authority have the means to access this vault.