Hello Altavia!
We had another wonderfully busy month with lots of events, practices and arts!
We started off with heading north to our cousins in Wintermist to thank Fabia and Ajax as they stepped down and support Shego and Alphonsus as they stepped in to their new role as Baroness and Baron.
Fabia called up a surprised Amabel to become the next Party Baroness, continuing a fun lineage of Baronesses.
The delicious lunch for the Baronage was highlighted by bardic performances filled with heartfelt songs and poems written to honor their consorts who inspired them.
The next week we headed out for Potrero War with members of our populace to join the Kingdom for a fun long weekend of fighting, shooting, camping and celebration.
We had large Altavian encampment, including quite a few people who were joining us for their first war! We were thrilled to have them, and hope they had a fantastic first war experience.
Brianna took Faelin as her Protege in the Altavians encampment, and we are all excited to see them grow and thrive together.
The rapier war field had some fun and creative melee scenarios, including our princess becoming a zombie and working to turn the rest of the fighters.
On the armored field we heard of exciting scenarios, and we were pleased to see one of our newer fighters join the melee field for the first time.
The archery range saw Altavians and archers aplenty, with over 200 archers coming out throughout the war. The growth of the archery community is fantastic to see, and the short range was continuously filled with new archery coming out to learn and try their hand at a bow.
Altavia had a fantastic showing at the novelty shoots and challenges, with one of our new archers, Brian to winning the Balloon pop-ulace novelty shoot. Merlin won the Viking Raid novelty shoot and the 3d target shoot “Kings Hunt”, and Amabel won the novelty shoot “Raising, not Razing a Viking Village” and the Potrero Adult War Championship.
We also got to celebrate two archers who made bowmaster at Potrero: Merlin Wynn (crossbow) and Gideon of Lyondemere (Handbow). This is a huge accomplishment in an archer’s career, and we are incredibly proud of them.
Back at home, our rapier practice has continued to have a great turnout, and our monthly 1st Monday boar pit this month encouraged fighters to bring their best weapons form, which resulted in some fantastic fighting.
Armored practice has had a good turnout lately, with new fighters and returning fighters that haven’t been able to come out recently.
Sir Yari has been continuing to show up to practices and help our fighters, even running a beginning two-weapons class.
We finished up the month with Collegium, which had a ton of class options, and the lunch by Rebecca Robynson and Philip De Will o’Aston was delicious!
We had quite a few Altavians at Collegium who took a wide range of classes from metal etching to period games to rapier classes to back strap weaving and more.
Thank you to everyone who helped run the event, taught classes and made the day a success!
We are looking forward to the next month of events and practices, leading up to Coronation.
In service,
Baroness Amabel
Baron Griffith
