Greetings, Altavia!<\/p>\n
As I write this note, the heavens are once again raining down on our fair lands. It has been a damp month, but our spirits are as high as ever, and there is lots going on here in Altavia and in Caid.<\/p>\n
While Calafia-Gyldenholt Friendship tourney was unfortunately rained out (as was pretty much everything that weekend in our area), the following weekend was a lovely double event weekend. First up was a truly stellar Crown in Angels! Congratulations to all combatants, especially Altavia\u2019s own Faelan, for wonderfully clean and well-communicated tournament, and thank you to Cassandra, Monique, Cecilia, Christof, Lord and Lady Altavia, Meliora, Matlens, and many, many more who joined us in the dragonwing for a lovely day! The finals were a nail biter between Sir Valentine and Duke Skalla with some really spectacular fighting. Congratulations to Their Royal Highnesses, Skalla and Lorissa. If you would like to serve on court for their upcoming reign, please reach out to His Excellency or I and we\u2019ll put you in contact with the right people.<\/p>\n
Sunday was a slightly soggy Consort\u2019s Champion Archery Thrown Weapons here in Altavia at Woodley archery range. While a smaller event, Cecilia did a wonderful job running the event and arranging a fun and challenging tournament on the archery side, with Lord Conall running things on the thrown weapons side. Her Majesty seemed to enjoy the flock of ducks that showed up for her and even took to the field to shoot a crossbow bolt or two. Thank you to all who helped us run a smooth event, especially List Mistress, Tezar, and finish up quickly so Her Majesty could get back on the road before the snows hit the Grapevine. Congratulations to Miguel, Her Majesty\u2019s new archery champion and Conall, her thrown weapons champion!<\/p>\n
Last weekend while I was under the weather, His Excellency headed out to Dreibergen for the brand-new Academia Draconis. He\u2019ll have to give all of the details on this event but from everything I read and all the pictures I\u2019ve seen, it sounds like it was an amazing event and I look forward to attending it in the future.<\/p>\n
From Baron Niko:<\/strong> Academica Draconis was truly wonderful. The classes, fighting and revelry were top notch. What I most appreciated is the time I had with a couple of new Altavians who took the time to sit and talk with me in the tavern. Thank you for the company, smiles and waves. I believe Joana was one of their names and I can\u2019t remember the other. The old Baron has never been good with remembering names the first (hundred) time I am introduced. We hope to see you more at practice and events.<\/p>\n The next few months will be busy here as we get Lord and Lady Altavia, Grif and Amabel, ready to step up at Anniversary. There\u2019s lots to do but we know that Altavia will rise to the occasion. Let\u2019s all pitch in to make sure we throw a party full of Theater not Drama!<\/p>\n Until next month, love always\u2026<\/p>\n Yours in Service to the Dream,<\/p>\n Baron Nikolaos Phaistos<\/p>\n Baroness Briana MacCabe<\/p>\n Greetings, Altavia! As I write this note, the heavens are once again raining down on our fair lands. It has been a damp month, but our spirits are as high as ever, and there is lots going on here in Altavia and in Caid. While Calafia-Gyldenholt Friendship tourney was unfortunately rained out (as was pretty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baronial-words"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/places.sca-caid.org\/altavia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"