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The Release of Maladius at the First Moot 1099

-Tale by Falcon, 23 rd March 1100 I must advise you to show the utmost caution when facing the demon. I know him as Maladius, Master of Plagues, and he is one of the most powerful of the plague demons. Overshadowing the terrible who we brought down at the Convocation of the Guilds. The story…

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The Documents of Stephen de Parkes

-From the archives of the Bards Guild, found with a body, possibly that of Stephen de Parkes, in the Great Library in Norhault on the twenty-sixth day of June 1099. The library, June 25, 1099 Master, I have continued with the research into the plague demons, elven treasures and associated issues. My research led me…

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Study of the Conclave, Gathering 1105

Over the last few years a threat has been stirring within the shadows of Erdreja, an ancient power that is focussed to one foal, that of the induction of the Cataclysm upon Erdreja. It is their intent to wipe clean the slate of existence whilst protecting their own number and then reforming the world anew…

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Caer Pendrinn

Stronghold of a King Caer Pendrinn has been a fortified stronghold since the fall of the Empire around 500 A.F., when it was constructed by Mark, duke of Cornwall. For the next twenty-five years Cornwall was ruled from Caer Pendrinn as an independent kingdom, during which time Mark took Igraine, only daughter of the Pendrinn,…

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Cornish Economics and Culture

The Wreckers On any tempestuous coastline, there will be those who make their living by salvaging what they find day to day washed up. Flotsam and jetsam provide them with saleable goods, or sometimes, there will be a major storm, and a whole ship will be washed ashore and before the local lord’s men get…

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Cornish Folk

Leri Penhaligon Born Lerianneth Constantine, the only daughter of the late Henry Constantine, Baron of Cornwall under the Lions. Leri was brought up in Pendrinn in the southernmost part of Cornish Albion, and became her father’s chatelaine at the age of fourteen, following the early death of her mother Angharad in defence of their casle…

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Excerpt – On the Pilgrimage of the Loyal

The Pilgrimage of the Loyal was the worst uprising in the Reign of the Council of Albion. It was a direct result of the decision of Chancellor Ravern’s successor that the search for the True Heir should be abandoned, a policy which confused and angered most Albiones. The original rebellion began at in Lincoln in…

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The Hooded Man – a vision of the Greenwood – as foreseen by a humble adherent to the Trinity

There is much peace in a wood, though it be far from silent. The forests have life of their own, and much life dwells ‘neath the boughs of the Greenwood trees of oak and ash and thorn. What peace may once have been found was of late shattered by the wounded cries of the fleeing…

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Excerpt – Historia Regum Britanniae by Sir Taliesin Mallory

On Uther, Warlord and Dread Prince, King of All Albion, who was Pendragon, and Lord of all from the Fells to the Land’s End. “A Knight of the Empire in the days of his youth, he saw what had been once – the order and the peace – and sought to once more with sword…

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Excerpt – The Blood of Kings by Doctor Nicholas Weatherwax

In the library there can be found a ponderous tome written in several volumes on the topic of the royal bloodline of Arthur’s House – though clearly some scholars attempt to curry favour with the monarch of the time, as there are lengthy passages describing the blood of kings to bestow grace and wisdom on…

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