“One of the great pitfalls in magical development is the tendency for people to, when the going gets tough, withdraw themselves into a safe fantasy and count themselves kings of infinite space. Sorcery, which is concerned with the everyday world, can help us keep our feet on the ground, which is very important for those who would reach for the stars.”
― Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
Among our earliest, our most ardent, and our stoutest vendors are the Founding Creators.
Founding Creators are part of the corps of our first-year’s breach of Ordinary Reality. They’re here to help make the Market wonderful (and we are here to give them a wonderful market in turn.)
Founding Creators tend to have exceptionally large or well-placed spaces. They are often likely to help other vendors before the show, especially as we all gather together in the glorious explosion of putting the Market together.
“Founding Creators would be the glue that holds the Market together, if most of the Market were willing to consent to be glued. While many of them are quite young, they are among the preeminent merchants, speakers, and leaders of our community. Did we mention that some of them have candy? Some of them have candy.”
-Puck
Some Founding Creators are also Guildmasters, which puts them in charge of entire guilds of Merchants. This would be even more impressive if the tradition wasn’t that all merchants are equal on the Marketplace weekend. So some of them are kings and queens in their own right, yea, nigh unto Gods…just not anywhere you’ll be seeing it.