Brighthelm Stane Library

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

Dragons Parliament of 1096 AF

Sir Huw de Grognard I arrived after a very tortuous journey from the Greenwood. Due to the short notice that my attendance was required, I was unable to collect my court clothes. The Greenwood still holds much for me to admire. The hospitality of the Beastmen and the Lios Alfar was most gratifying. LORD ARCANE…

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Etiquette – Albione names

It is tradition in Albion that people are given family names. This tends to lead to the same named being used by a family and people being named after Aunts and Uncles. They and the person that they are named after are referred to as “namesakes” and as such they were. Most people only have…

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The Harts Council of 1097 AF

Sir Huw de Grognard The Council was convened at about one o’clock. Lady Tarragon, Speaker of Albion, had Lord General Calin to her right and Sir Hugo Charenten to her left. The hall was a who’s who of Albion. I was surrounded by the Beastmen who seemed in reasonable cheer despite the troubles in their…

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Of Hawks and Falcons

A month at sea, a narrow-keeled sloop built for smuggling and evasion. Cabins for the crew and salt-leather tarpaulin shelters for steerage passengers. Soft-singing at night off darkened coastlines, light squalls in the daytime, sudden summer fog and parched days of cerulean hue. The days blurred into one long moment of anticipation and fear-mingled dread…

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The Harts’ Spring Parliment 1103 – No Lion Bleeds To Death Alone

From my papers Edward James The Harts’ Spring Parliment 1103 – No Lion Bleeds To Death Alone By A. Robin Ashwine It was a slightly smaller band of Lions who went to the Hart’s parliment this year. With no mists of Avalon to tempt us, and with rising troubles back home, fewer of us could…

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Further letters on the War with the Tomorrow Court

The Battle of Sherburn Keep 9th day of May, 1099 The attack started late last night, some time after the midnight watch. The Fae came on us out of the Forest, not slowed by the darkness in the slightest. There were creatures wreathed in fire, those with skin like treebark and many high ranking mages….

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Ancestors of Albion 1105 before the Chosing of the Trinity

Ancestors of Albion The ancestors of Albion are many and varied. With the arrival of the Empire into this land, patron ancestors of Albion have also awoken to claim Albion as their own. Nurturing Ancestors Many of the Ancestors of Albion could be described as nurturing ancestors. Their primary aims are to look after the…

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Healer Houses 1111

Healer Houses as at 1111. Survey carried out by Graf, High Healer. The Healer Houses for Albion are   Chapter Houses : Brighthelm Stane, Selby Major guild houses: Gloucester, Winchester, Bristol, Warwick, Keswick Minor guild houses: Carlisle, Nottingham, Eaton, Norhault, Tewksbury, Ellenbrooke, Oxford, Huntington, Alton, Exeter, Lincoln, York, Bishop Auckland, Berwick, Londinium, Orlaine, Southhampton

Regarding events at Hereford

3rd day of December 1098 Information that I can disseminate here is necessarily limited by security concerns. I can assure all of you that our scouts and Rangers have confirmed approximate numbers and composition of the attacking force and their muster points. All watches are to remain alert and at double strength. Patrols and pickets…

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Rumours October 1111

Water Water everywhere Rumours are rife amongst the people of Albion. The land has turned against us. The people are in despair, dying in droves. Villages that draw their water from rivers or lake are suffering from poison cases in droves the venom taking days to kill healers are over taxed their power expended on…

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