Happy August, Altavia! Here’s hoping you’re all staying cool in these hottest days of summer!
Since we last met, His Excellency and I have had many adventures attending events around the kingdom. We both headed out to Consort’s Champion Armored/Rapier in al Sahid, where His Excellency and several others from the barony competed on the Rapier lists. We are very proud to say that the Rapier finals saw two fine Altavians, Master Laertes and Don Nathaniel facing off, with Nathaniel emerging victorious. Congratulations to him and to Sir Parmenio from Calafia for winner the armored lists.
The following weekend saw both of us heading out to Dreibergen Summer Arts where we saw some amazing art, bardic performances, and even had time to sneak in a rapier class led by His Excellency. This was followed the next weekend by Darach Pirate Tourney up in cool Camarillo, where a good time was had by all.
Finally, this past weekend we headed out to Dun Or for Her Majesty Staeina’s Festival of the Rose. While the temperatures were hot, the art was even hotter! Many congratulations go out to our very own Honorable Lady Courtney of the White Meadow who was named Her Majesty’s Arts and Sciences champion for her very impressive traveling merchant kit and accessories. We look forward to seeing some of these in action at GWW!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for any and all of these events; events are always made more special by getting to spend time with our baronial peeps at them.
There are a couple of events on the horizon. This weekend is Academia up in Nordwache and the following weekend is Highland War, out in al Sahid. Sadly, neither His Excellency nor I will be able to attend either of those events but we hope those that do go have a great time. Following that we have Crown Tournament up in Isles on Sept. 10 and Angels Anniversary on Sept. 17. Angels will be a baronial investiture so please be thinking of any largesse you might be able to contribute to the new leadership of our mother barony.
Speaking of new leadership, our call for letters of intent for couples interested in becoming the next Baron and Baroness of Altavia closed on August 13 and we received one letter from The Honorable Lord Griffith von Bremen and The Honorable Lady Amabel Radleigh. Over the next few weeks, the populace will have several chances to hear from them on what they bring to the barony and what the hope to do as Baron and Baroness. We are in the process of getting the polling process launched with kingdom so be on the lookout for your polling form soon.
Finally, as we’ll discuss later in the meeting, we are looking for ways to get more people involved in the running of the barony and more ways to keep in touch as an office team outside of these meetings. We both urge you to share any and all ideas on how to make things run better for everyone!
Have a great month and try and stay cool!
Yours in Service to the Dream,
Baron Nikolaos Phaistos
Baroness Briana MacCabe
