Gentle Scottish Rose
There are none such as her, this lady of ours
a heart so wild who's dance send flowers
swaying softly against her soothing touch
to say so little, yet mean so much
I ne'er knew another heart like hers
nor inspired more to add her verse
to the spire of memory we build on high
to love and cherish her softest sigh
no words befall this broken bard
that could express her life so hard
she fought harder than any man
and gave equal loving guiding hand
her eyes cast love over all our hearts
and cast it still though our ways would part
rest well, my gentle scottish rose
your gift to us grants all loving repose.
Bastion
I'm thinking of 10th century Geats Viking
a name i like is
Valgard the Grey Wolf
anyone got any thoughts?
got a new kit together for my new viking persona.. I'm going 10th century.. I'm stoked.. making leather viking shoes and everything! :) woot!
working on my first chainmail piece.. a necklace to replace the one I broke that had my cross on it that Erin gave to me.. I now understand the plight of crabs across the globe.. and my hands are killin me.. LOL
funfun.. as if i didn't have enough projects, i pick up one of the most meticulous and time consuming projects ever..
My wife [KathrynShea] got hurt at Gulf Wars. She took a direct spear thrust to the throat and was taken off in an ambulance. The marshals know I believe who it was, but other than that we don't know who it was. All we know from her account was that it was a knight defending the fort on saturday. She is alright now, healing and no permanent damage done, but from her account, she lost her footing and fell to her knees, and swung and struck a knight as she was going down. He informed her that she could not swing from this position, stepped on her sword, kicked her shield open with his leg, and thrust his spear into her throat. This is the account given by my lady. Most of our company, and many others took a knee, stating that they could not fight anymore, worrying about her. I never saw so many people come to her aid, and so many people in earnestly concerned. It did my heart well to see such unity and love. One of her much admired female fighters Bree was there from nowhere adding support. I want to thank all who was there and said prayers for her and supported me and kept me from dishonoring myself on the field. You are the reason I play.
Thank you to Houses Tiger's Castle, Shadow Legion, Meridian Foreign Legion, Aylekeep [Belladonna Pirates@wiki],Crimson Chimera and any others that assisted and lent support in this time. Also to the Barony of the Osprey, Shire of Arenal, and Phoenix Glade as well.
Incidentally, I would assume that if the knight had not meant to injure her in this way, he would have been there next to her apologizing. I know if I had injured someone I would stay with them until they were okay. Accidents happen, and we know what we are getting into. Since he did not seek her out, (it's not like nobody knew who she was, or where she camped)I am to believe that he either didn't care that he had hurt her so badly, or is a coward and stayed away because he knew he had done wrong and could not let his face and name be revealed for fear of the honor he would lose as soon as he was identified.
To the coward who remains anonymous...
May your hands tremble in battle, coward. May sweat blind you whenever your helmet is donned, May your belt dry rot from your body and turn black to match your honor. Should I ever find you, or meet you on the field, I shall lay down my sword apon the ground, and turn my back to you, for you are an honorless dog and do not deserve to wear the belt of chivalry, much less die by sword on a field of honor
gulf wars is awesome! hope to see everyone there!
My last missive to my Shire as their Seneschal
My ladywife and I traveled across the kingdom to our neighboring Barony, Osprey, for the coronation of Maximillian and Lethrenn, only to find that our fair queen Deidre was assassinated, and Boru had been beheaded while avenging his queen. It was a sad day for the kingdom, but our highnesses took the crowns with honor and I felt much better about our kingdom knowing that they would rule us using the guidance of their esteemed parents.
At the tournaments, my ladywife fought valiantly and displayed honor and chivalry amongst the knights and squires who asked for a chance to fight her, with her knight watching proudly at the side of the field. One of her fledgelings, [Isabetta] fought well along side her husband Lord [Lorcan], and suprised many a comfortable fighter with their prowess on the field. I fear I will have to remake my lady's armor, as the coat of plates I fashioned for her is now ragged from hard use. Thus I may still be a long time out before I am able to make my own armor to fight for my kingdom and my knight. I do not worry about that, as it is good for me to be able to make sure my ladywife is able to fight in good armor. My time will come soon enough.
Our hosts at Osprey were very friendly and during feast, i opted to lend to atmosphere by sitting off to the side, providing music from my guitar, soft and pleasant to ease the hungry pallets waiting on the next servings.. To my suprise, more than a handful of gentles came and brought me food and drink, though I did not mean it to seem as though I was missing out on feast because of the state of my purse, rather enjoying the time spent in semi-seclusion just outside the light of the feast hall...
I wore a new long vest created with loving hands by [Jac] sable, with Or dragonflies embroidered all over it, which was by far my most favorite piece of clothing I own now.
I was fortunate enough to run into [Bjorn] and his lady, along with [jocosa] and [kynwric], who shared some of their shade with me, and I happily plucked a few songs from my guitar. It was good to have many friends to share stories and shade with, having noted how nice it was to go somewhere far away and still have those who call you by name to sit and share their fires and drink. It was a much needed reminder as to the company I keep, and what they all truly mean to me.
I had also the chance to speak to my good friend Boru about a few things, and showed him my new tattoo. I would like very much to speak more in depth with him, as in all the time i've known him, we have only been afforded a few stolen moments between responsibilite
Sadly, as the night grew, having other responsibiliti
Without Service, there is no Loyalty
Without Loyalty, there is no Chivalry
Without Chivalry, all is lost..
Household Creed of Slippery Slope in Caid... It's a very good quote.
Arabian Nights was a great success! In attendance (that I can remember)
TRMajesties Trimaris + Entourage
Sir Baras Bayan
Sir Logan Guile
Sir Alexander Brighthelmston
Viscount Sir Camric Greenshield
Sir Myrwyyd
There were a NUMBER of shineys and pointies, but I don't recall all of their names.. As well as a good few Pelicans and Laurels I believe.
We had 36 fighters on the list, and 15 fighters on the Rapier List (that is the same number for when they attended the Rapier's Fighter's Collegium)
We had visitors from all over, feast was great, everyone had a grand time. I had a smallish crowd (including TRM Trimaris) in the Tavern listening to music with me and Sanzio, Sir Logan lent his bardic abilities and we played on till 4am. :D
more later...
The promise that everyone in my shire should make to each other:
Help and give support to those who need, and accept help and support from those who offer it.
I like that way of thinking...
Instead of telling you all how Crown List went, I will show the letter I wrote to my Shire, to give you an idea of how proud and happy I am that we pulled off such a HUGE event.
Hit List was a great event.. TRM Boru and Deirdre honored me with the Order of the Argent Comet. We daytripped in the Pirate bus, and around midnight on the way home, the lights of the bus went out, and we had to drive down the interstate on the shoulder, with a maglight as our only way of seeing..until we got to a rest stop.. then we decided to bunker down at the rest stop and wait till daylight, get a jumpstart from a trucker and limp home.. what an adventure...LO
fought at a demo.. first time I have donned armor since blowing my knee out at GW 06.
Didn't blow my knee, didn't have a heart attack.. feelin pretty good other than the lovely swordblows to my back. :) lovin them bruises..hehe.
A knight is sworn to valour, His heart knows only virtue,
His blade defends the helpless, His might upholds the weak,
His word speaks only truth, His wrath undoes the wicked
what a cool quote...
Day Two of Diet:
Today is only water, vegetables and the veg soup.
Day one was only water, fruit, no bananas, with a soup made of beef stock, celery, carrots and onions.
Me and Erin are both doin it. It suxors. I just know some knobby ass skinny f**** thought this sh!t up...I think I want to peel their skin off with a dull plastic kitchen utensil...
Arenal's 12th night went over really well! Though we would have liked a few more numbers, it went off splendidly! our MOC [Madalena] decorated a wonderful childrens area, with all viking themes, Mistress Christiana and her wonderful singing voice lent aid to our MOC, and was a pleasure to have around, as well as Sir Baroque (sp?) who has come back to play, and displayed such chivalry and honor, that we are hard pressed not to shang hai him for other events just to be around his humor and great attitudes! I was awarded the Boarslayer, the highest order of Bardic appreciation given in our Shire, as well as the Golden Book award, another Shire accolade for teaching others what I know. I also recieved a special award to show the love and support the Shire has for me, which included a 440 surgical steel functional Samurai Sword replicated from the Kill Bill movie, based on the Hattori Hanzo sword, a late period japanese sword maker, who was the best and most renowned swordmaker of his time. [LdNicolas] was the new co autocrat, and his organizational skills were clearly shown along with [Joselito]'s Wife Lady Gefn autocratting, with [Rowan] at the helm in the feast for her first solo mission under the watchful eye of [Joselito] who is one of our best feastocrats in our group.
There were very few snags at the event, everyone was mellow and happy, including the 'crats' which was both a pleasant suprise, and a blessing as well. It showed their organization was such that they had time to do fun things as well. Feast was outstanding! [VikingCrone] was there, and I got to meet her in person, and all who met her spoke wonderfully about her, especially the feast teams to which she was a great asset, as some of us know from her help at Gatalop and other places she's helped.
We were competing with alot of other events that were on the same weekend, which lent to our less numbers, but we still did alright and everyone had fun and that's what counts!
Knight's Gambit was alright..It was 10 degrees at night and the site owner would not allow us to heat the cabins we rented, (said if he saw heaters in the cabins, he'd shut down the event) So we had to fend off the cold with what we had. The fighting was great though, got to see a number of meridian legends, and up and comings, We had fun during the day, and feast was very good. I especially liked the chicken lasagna and the 'dump' cake. :) I believe Master [Salih of Aksaray] had a hand in both of those dishes. It was me, [KathrynShea],[Gunnarr], his lady, [LdNicolas],[Joselito], and his lady,[Lord Damien],and his lady [Lady Jane] among those who are members of TK who went.
We would have taken pictures, but the camera actually FROZE and wouldn't work.. :(
finished Erin's Bazubands, just need to paint and wax them. made two gauntlets for one of our youth combat fighters, and [baronulrich] is working on a leather Baronial Coronet. [Sanzio] worked on a cloak for one of his squire brothers. MAN it was cold.. no heater in the warehouse.