Arrakis
Lord Arrakis of Eastern Pine Camp, Crystal Groves
Biography
Senator for the Kingdom of Crystal Groves, '24-'25 Term
Arrakis got started foamfighting in 2007 in a Belegarth park in Nashville, TN called Dur Demarion. After a year, he moved to Connecticut for grad school and in 2009 started driving an hour into Massachusetts to play Dagorhir every week or two. Shortly thereafter, he heard about SKBC being held up near the NH edge of MA. He attended, enjoyed the hell out of himself, and began driving up to play Amtgard every couple months, usually hitting Fury and GE any given year. He continued to attend Bel and Dag events and built out an SCA Heavy kit. He attended a few of the Market Day At Birka bearpit tournaments fighting two-stick.
In 2015, he moved to New Jersey. He continued to attend GV events when possible, and eventually found a home for a time at Bridgehaven, a (now-defunct) shire of GV in central Jersey. When that group stopped meeting in mid-2016, busy with work and a move further south in the state, Arrakis fell into a hiatus, only spottily attending a park day in NYC or a small Dag event in PA.
Then, in 2023, he happened to check the ORK Atlas and discovered a park only 30 minutes away from his new place: Eastern Pine Camp. Since then, he's been monarch of the shire for over two terms, has overseen a nearly complete membership turnover (military deployments), a move of the park location to the campus of Princeton University, and growth back to solidly shire-level monthly uniques. He has recently begun serving as CG's representative to the Circle of Monarchs as Senator, his first Kingdom monarchy position.
Mundanely, he is a research scientist, husband, and father who lives in Central NJ.
On Discord
Arrakis is very active in the Paragon Academy Discord server, the kingdom servers of Crystal Groves and Goldenvale, many individual park servers in KCG, the Official Amtgard International Discord server, and the Project Phoenix server. Feel free to message him or ping him!
Interests
Arrakis cares a lot about garb, weapon construction, making things of all kinds, and fighting skill. His all-time favorite fighting loadout is low-strap round shield and short flatblade. He enjoys armor and making and talking about it. He's a homebrewer and he cares probably too much about coffee, too. He's also into ergonomics and design.
He very rarely takes garb and weapon commissions but will happily tell you how to do anything he knows how to do. He enjoys teaching and learning new things.
Accomplishments
Service in Office
Senator of Crystal Groves, 2024-2025 Term
COM Meeting 1: Discussed business with the CG BOD, the populace on all park servers, and the other COM reps on AICOM FB; voted; and messaged 4 other representatives who had not cast votes to remind them to vote and whip for the change to abstentions and the creation of a Discord server for official AICOM business.
Sheriff of Eastern Pine Camp
- Winter 2024 reign (partial) - Arrakis begin his third term as Sheriff, but when the Kingdom position of Senator opened up, he decided to serve in a new way and stepped down from his local monarchy position to take on this new role.
- Summer 2024 reign - This reign saw a return to regular operation for the Shire, with arts and fighting tournaments as well as some visits to nearby parks from Arrakis and Mox.
- Winter 2023 reign - Arrakis announced his intention to focus his reign on recruitment and retention and subsequently grew the park from bi-monthly 3-4 person park days to weekly 4-8 person park days during this reign and the reign following, including beginning the tradition of holding an Into to Amtgard class at Princeton University's annual Wintersession.
Other Service
- Converted all KCG park heraldries into stamp designs and distributed the 3d model files to the various parks for printing
- Taught a class during the Kingdom Regent-sponsored Angler's Rift A&S chat in 2025 on how to build centergrip and strap shields
- Organized and lead instruction at Princeton Wintersession recruiting event, 2025
- Built six loaner shields for EPC
- Reeved EPC Weaponmaster Summer 2024
- Judged Kingdom Dragonmaster at Blackthorn, Aug 11 2024
- Organized and and lead Princeton Wintersession recruiting event, 2024
- Built and donated loaner weapons, sashes, and spellballs to EPC, 2023
Fighting
- Finished third in KCG Winter Weaponmaster 2024
- Won the Great Weapon bracket at the GE Weaponmaster 2016
A&S
- Won the second $20 Garb Challenge on the Dag Boards for his thrifted bedsheet Bedouin kit
- Arrakis, along with Lobo of Dur D, pioneered and documented the marine-foam low-profile spearhead in the late 2000s
Assets, Tutorials, and 3D Models
All the captions above are hyperlinked, including the 3d models! Feel free to print anything I've uploaded for personal use, and see each model's page for any additional copyright information about how you may use these models.
More Information
- Printables Page with various models he's designed, some of which are for Amtgard.