Lilly :

The recruiting policy is rather peculiar. The Vanguard is a completely independent cell of the equestrian army. There are offers, and even if we pay attention to most of them, in the end, we have total control on which proposal we accept or not. “Offers” are generally ponies recommended by monarchs, councils, lead institutes and so on at their own discretion. A potential recruit has no idea that it has been recommended nor if we’re interested in their “application”, if it’s the case, we approach them, as I was.
We are a little team, we sometime get help from a few external members and contacts, but of course running our base is not possible with 4 ponies only. I currently have 3 assistants for my research, including EOS, and management of the Overseer, 2 other members take care of the castle and equipment.

We participate in the development of our realm, which means that in fact, Fudge and Nathariel have given multiple expert day/night training sessions but as I know, no one personally. I attend to scientific and magic conferences and Goliath keep an eye on our agricultural status.

[Oh an update :D, yep Techno could totally have been Lilly’s teacher, explaining why she’s into arcane golems and stuff :p]

[Little reblog, posted it a bit late :)]