Hello Altavia!

It’s been a rainy, wet start to the year, with practices as possible between the wet days. While Consorts Champion was sadly postponed due to the rain, we had a great Unbelted, with over 60 fighters!

We have a busy month coming up with tournament season continuing. We are looking forward to Rapier war this weekend, and hoping for mild weather. We are also planning on taking part in Lyondomere Arts and Archery on Feb 24th and Crown Tournament on March 2nd. We look forward to enjoying a nice variety of formats, and seeing a bunch of people there!

In service to the dream,
Baroness Amabel Radleigh
Baron Griffith von Bremen

Greetings one and all.

It has been a relaxing month as far as events go, though I’m certain more than a few of us have been busy in preparation for upcoming events. Like the lovely Largesse that we were able to present to TRM’s. It was a nice break that helped most of us catch up with projects and temper our sense of decency in expectation of my ramblings. 😛

This last weekend was the Coronation of the newly established King and Queen, Tryggr & Mercedes. They’ll certainly put the T&M in TRM’s. It was a delightful (and tense) moment in the ceremony that had many of us at the edge of our seats in anticipation. We bid farewell to the former Crowns and welcomed the new in Caidan fashion.

We look forward to seeing what you accomplish at future events. Such as: Winter Weekend, Consort’s Champion, Unbelted, Festival of the Rose! We know you’ll make this Reign, one(among many) to remember.

Here in Audacious Service to the Dream
THL Griffith Von Bremen, RRE.
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THL Amabel Radleigh, the Amazing.
(and not just because she let me write this unsupervis…*CLANG!*)

Hello Altavia!

We started off the Yule season at Medieval Marketplace with some holiday shopping and a fun armored and rapier practice day.

Then began the many Yules! I know many of our populace attended celebrations in other Baronies, as well as our own shared Angles/Altavia Yule, which hosted many guests from other Baronies as well. The celebrations have brought a wonderful warmth and cheer to the end of the year.

We want to extend a thank you to everyone who made Angels/Altavia Yule amazing!

Griffith and I had a wonderful time seeing everyone, and getting to hear all of the bardic performances.

It was very special to get to present Briana MacCabe and Niko Phaistos with the Starre and Stone, which was greatly deserved by each of them. Lynette de Sandoval spoke at length on their many contributions to the society on behalf of the Order, and we presented the Starre and the Stone medallions which were made by Mistress Selene Colfox. We were able to add to the presentation with custom scrolls and dragons by E’tain inghean mhic Carthaigh for each of them.

Special thanks to Baron Jethro for feeding the head table and tons of other people as well, showing once again the generosity that lead to his receiving the Legion of Courtesy.

Thanks as well to Fara MacGregor, Niko Phaistos and Dame Gorandookkt Mamigonian for stewarding the event! A congratulations to Liam MacGregor who also received a Legion of Courtesy, and was seen throughout the event, always landing a hand and helping things run smoothly.

Coming up in the next month we have Coronation on January 6th in Angels, and we would like to put together a presentation of largesse for the incoming royals, as well as a thank you presentation to outgoing Royals. We would ask the populace to start thinking about what they would like to contribute to these. Please reach out to Baroness Amabel with any largess contributions or ideas. We are looking forward to the new year starting off with coronation.

In service to the dream,

Baroness Amabel

Baron Griffith

Hello Altavia!

The last month brought many things, amongst them, our Agincourt Archery Tournament! We were thrilled to have a talented bunch of archers come out and compete and are proud to have Sibylla and Tomaso as our Archery and Thrown Weapons Champions.

The Fretted Fork was a delicious success, with Fyvie as our Period Division Champion, Cecilia as the Open Division Champion and Caterina as the People’s Choice Champion.

In addition, the Baronial family has grown again this month and we have new Cousins! While we were unable to make it down to Calafia to welcome in Torsteinn and Asa, we are excited to have them join the Baronage, and look forward to seeing the Barony continue to thrive under their leadership.

This past weekend a large contingent of Altavians traveled north to Naevehjem for their anniversary. Quite a few of us were hosted by the ever generous Trinity Abby, and we were joined by even more Altavians in our double stacked Altavia/Legion Dragonwing shades, which felt very appropriate for a Frost Dragon event. Thank you to all who made the journey, attending both the rapier and armored combat tournaments as well as the archery tournament the next day.

We are looking forward to the next month, which includes our joint Angles/Altavia Yule which we would love to see you all at.

I’m service to the dream,

Baroness Amabel
Baron Griffith