Happy August, Altavia!
The latter half of July was just as exciting as the first part with our first large tournament back, Queen’s Champion down in Gyldenholt! We had several competitors on both the armored and rapier field and so many people hanging out with Altavia that we ended up with some satellite pop-ups around the dragon wing. Thank you to everyone that came and hung out with us or dropped by to say “Hi!”; it was a truly wonderful day.
We also had our first in-person Arts & Sciences class back at the Proto-Cathedral of St. Mary’s. Arranged and taught by Allesandra, we had a fun evening of learning to eave chainmaille and even some of the children of the church’s clergy got in on the fun. Thank you from being an awesome teacher, Alessandra!
Looking ahead to what is coming up for the rest of the month, Festival of the Rose for Her Royal Majesty Queen Katherine will take place on August 21 in Naevehjem. His Excellency and I will both attend and if you are looking to carpool to the event, let us know and we will help you arrange something. Come share your art in celebration of our beautiful Queen!
After that is Nordwache’s Pirate Tourney on August 28 and Highland “Not-Quite-a-War” on September 4. I am not certain if His Excellency and I are planning on attending either, but we can still help arrange carpooling if you are interested. Caid Rapier Open is also coming up in mid-September in Darach and I can bet Altavia will have some solid representation there…possibly including my first attempt at tourney fighting, yikes!
A little further up the road is Crown Tourney in September and I know we have at least one couple throwing their hats in the ring from Altavia so that is exciting! Crown will be in Dun Or and the dragon wing will be out with plenty of Altavia banners and bling, so please come join us as we look to the future of Caid.
Finally, it is time to prep for two big events in October: GWW and Agincourt/Caid Archery Open. If you plan on attending GWW and camping with Altavia and you haven’t yet registered, please do so as soon as possible. Everyone must pre-reg this year (even day trippers) and registration closes on September 15. I’m sure we’ll be talking more about Agincourt later in the meeting, but we are going to need an event steward that can work with the event steward for Caid Archery Open to make sure everything runs smoothly. Just a reminder that due to the combining of events, Agincourt will be on a Saturday this year, not a Sunday.
In closing, His Excellency and I would like to thank everyone that came out to last night’s EPIC fighter practice (and celebration of His Excellency’s birthday). I’m sure Meliora and Sibylla have an exact count, but I heard we had between 60-70 people there at one point and a count of rapier fighters came up to 23! It was so nice to see so many happy people all in one place and we hope we can have many more like that in the future!
Yours in Service, Always.
Baron Nikolaos Phaistos
Baroness Briana MacCabe
