Brighthelm Stane Library

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

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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The Demise of Violet

June 1100 A.F. An open letter from Lasha, Master Fire “To the gracious, most noble people of the Harts, Out of my sincere heartfelt emotions of respect, I commend the following news to you my friends. You are no doubt aware that our mutual friend Joshua McTay with whom we share similar feelings towards had…

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Into the Woods

Not strangers these, but faces known, at least to some. The man had the appearance of Thomas Wychwood, that scion of an unchancy clan of dream-mages and courtly illusionists, and the woman his sister, her face bright and hair spiked in the fashion of woad-stiffened Caledonian zealots. And Thomas spoke to me and asked where…

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Harts Of Olden Glory

A soldiers’s lament. Sung privately by The Company Of The Black Boar for a long time but used very publically after the high level of Harts casualties at their moot in 1102. Since that time it has been used repeatedly after the deaths of faction members, and to steel morale when marching into a battle…

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Paperwork found on dead ritualists on the outskirts of the Greenwood, 1110

James, You are doing the right thing – the Harts, the nobles and court of Albion have strayed from the path of the Trickster. Too much have they given themselves to the law, to duty and honour. They cleave too firmly to the path of the Alpha and of the Consort, binding the Hunter to…

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Heroic Hugo

A Bard of Albion ‘Heroic Hugo!’ cry the bards ‘Righting every wrong! Heroic Hugo, drinking wine And revelling in song!’ Hugo, Prince of Albion, Defending all the free, Lord Warden of the Eastern March And drinker of much tea, Army Marshal staunch and bold Unyielding in the fight: General all-round decent chap, Albion’s favourite knight….

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Behind the Yellow of Cats Eyes

Deep within the forests are roaming clans of catkin, most of which are on friendly terms with those they meet and wish to live in peace with all. They are creatures of the wild but have sworn loyalty to the throne. They have their differences from those of more civilized birth, but generally prefer peace…

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The Beating the Bounds Song

traditional Marchwood Chorus The land that bears the forest Is as rich as any known The trees and plants reach ever down To the strongest Albion stone. The fire in our lanterns Is a light that we all know It lights our way from dawn to dusk When sunlight will not show. The wind that…

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