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Drinking Song

Unquestionably one of Duchess Falcon’s bawdier compositions, she states proudly that it fully intended to be sung loudly and obnoxiously … “with gusto and a pint”! Library Archivist Summer 1105 Drinking Song by Madelaine Falcon Chorus We’ll drink to the stupid, we’ll drink to the wise We’ll drink to the drunk on the floor We’ll…

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Filed by Sir Geoffrey, Rebecca’s report on current events, particularly concerning Trell.

I have suggested to Phoenix diMaggio that he contact Aisla about joining in here, apart from being nominal leader of the Karlennans since Benedict’s tragic demise, he also has good brains and ideas – and he’s cute – oops, sorry dear. Not certain I like l’Ume’s inference about my mentality. Just like the beastmen, I…

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The Dragons’ Song

various drunken Dragons If you want to find the Dragons, I know where they are I know where they are, I know where they are If you want to find the Dragons, I know where they are They’re drinking all the beer in the bar We saw them, we saw them Drinking all the beer…

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The Ash Grove

Traditional The ash grove, how graceful, how plainly ’tis speaking The harp through it playing has language for me. Whenever the light through its branches is breaking A host of kind faces is gazing on me The friends of my childhood again are before me Each step wakes a memory as freely I roam With…

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The Harts Yuletide 1099

A Midwinter festival of remembrance Queen Elspeth requests that friends and family join her, at Eaton on the 30th January 1099, to remember her son Crown Prince Elias Karlennon who died at the Gathering of 1098. She does not wish the occasion to be sombre; but a festival of remembrance. All who have left us…

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Reports concerning the death of the dream guardian and sacrifice of Goran and Phoenix

Towards the end of the summer of 1104, a tale, which had begun a thousand years before, came to an end – or perhaps better to say a change. Morvaine, hero of Albion, Champion of Dreams, a man who had stepped forth at a time when his race did not even have their lives to…

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The Warwick Festival of Lights

In Cymrijia it is oftimes said that mortals are merely the throw-pieces of the gods; our fate, it is claimed, is to know peace and strife and glory and sorrow for the pleasure and diversion of the powers of the otherworld and the immortal spirits of the shining realms alone. Our lives are but the…

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The re-opening of the Bristol Ritual Circle

5th November 1099 to the 7th November 1099 Hunter Stryker Some years back, during the Civil War within Albion, Jadvor held Bristol and came under siege by Satun and his hoards. In order to prevent more support arriving for Satun, Floris-Brand closed the circle by removing the element of fire from it. At the time,…

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Rutterkins Wood

An account by Martaine Quarrier So it was that Martaine Quarrier, a man of Winchester, set off on a trip from his home town, via a transport circle to Exeter and then ran hard for twelve hours into the darkness and unknown (and unsafe) territory bearing an important message…. Martaine Quarrier “I staggered up to…

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The Notes of Thomas Fitzroy Cholmondeley Smythe – On Demons of Plague

Here is collected what I have learned about the nature of Plague Demons, from various sources. 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…

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