Brighthelm Stane Library

Being the public documents available to those visiting Brighthelm Stane without prior appointment.

Albion Inkwell – issue 2

Published late Spring 1126 Librarian’s note: A transcript is added below for indexing purposes but owing to the formatting issues this brings, the original source material is best viewed directly. DURST TRADING COMPANY LEADERSHIP FOUND DEAD — CHAIRMAN SOUGHT BY SHERIFFS By Marcellus Quay, Financial & Commerce Reporter, Counting Coin & Consequence The markets of…

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Albion Inkwell – issue 1

Published Early Spring 1126 Librarian’s note: A transcription is offered below to aid in indexing, but the formatting compromises mean the material is best viewed in its original form. Thousand Island Marketing Emporium Potions, Scrolls, Crafting & More… Whispers from the Hearth… Soon, a new voice will join our pages — one who listens more…

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Ranger Report 1126, Moot 1

A report Written By Cesealia DreamEater of House Sinclair As the Ranger of Cornwall appointed by Vakarian, First Ranger of the Harts I was entrusted with setting up a coastal guard along the Cornish Coast to seek the Black Ship potentially collecting any debris that washes up from it as well, along with checking out…

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Iskander the Black – UNLEASHED

Librarian’s note: Information passed to the Harts at Moot 1, 1126 A warning to the nations and guilds of the Heartlands and Southlands. Iskander the Black has been released. To understand the extent of this threat I will recount what we know from the writings of scholars that have come before us as can be…

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Letter received by the Harts at the first moot of 1126

To Lady Protector Maru, Ruler of the Harts within the Shrouded Land. This sharing of information is a joint missive from Cynewulf, Athelstan and Bretwalda. Further, in case you are lacking notable scribes such as the one named Avery, this is presented in your modern scrip and ignoring the true, old letter of this Land….

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Thoughts on recent losses

by Ser Graf Dog-Mortimer On the day that v’Ar died, someone told me comforting lies. They said that if you look up at the sky you’ll sometimes see a star that burns brighter than the others and that’s the patterns of the fallen running through the afterlife with their ancestor and all the people what died…

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Eulogy for Ser Asura

My beloved Harts of Albion,  As I write this letter to you it is nigh impossible to avoid staining the page with tears of deep sorrow and heartbreak. My best friend Ser Asura Heartsong is gone, barely a year after the loss of my heart’s flame, Magnus Kapre. I know you all knew Asura at…

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A report on Moot 2, 1125

writ by Sir Graf Dog-Mortimer I thought I would put a list together of things that happened at the Moot since people aren’t doing it much these days. Iver After the volcano exploded recently we’ve been doing our best to rescue people stuck in the area. They got things cleared enough so that a lot…

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State of Albion, Spring moot 1125

Your Grace′sThe Lady Protector has bid me draw up this report on the state of Albion.Albion has fared well these winter months, and the people of Albionhave taken to the news of Lady Maru becoming the Lady ProtectorThe work to rebuild Oxford draws to a close with the last few bits andfinishing touches, hoping to…

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Reports, Late May 1123

AlbionThe return to a wilder way of life carries on as the land seems to moveaway from rigid law. An increase in the number of Mordred shrines beingfound and reported has led to numerous other shrines being reportedand or destroyed falsely. This is occurring more in the rural areas ofAlbion but is spreading, its also…

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