July 2008

Wednesday July 30 to Tuesday August 5th

• Download all of the rules changes from clan. The Rule book will be up in 30-60 days.
• Download new up to date spell sheets made by Squinty of Radiant Valley

Blackspire

• Kingdom Quals was originally scheduled in Blackwood Grove on Sunday the 3rd of August. Since BWG is meeting as part of the One Park in Portland, Quals will be moved up to Saturday the 2nd at Creston Park (44th Ave. and Powell Blvd. in Portland, OR). Sign ups for Quals will begin at 12:00 noon and close at 2:00 PM to allow judging to begin. We will also be holding our War Master tournament at this time.
• Kubla Khan has declared intent to run for Monarch of Inland Ocean.
• Tseng has declared for Monarch of Blackspire. Aristiri has declared for regent.

Burning Lands

*Recovers from the Evactuation of the Clans:2008, some members of the Burning Lands were the hardest hit by the flash flooding Vindall loosing all his garb and equipment to an impromptu rafting trip on his air mattress. Verana and Kurse also were trapped in their tent, and had to cut and bite their way out.

• Celebrates the knighting of Deathstalker.
• Thanatos steps into the office of Prime Minister of Shrouding Mist.

Celestial Kingdom

• Kingdom Dragon/Weaponmaster to be held in San Marcos, Texas on Aug 3. Pics from the tourney by Istari. Placements in Weaponmaster; Clalibus, Drakknar, and Diego respectively. In Dragonmaster; 1st Goldcrest,

2nd Diego, and Garret a newcomer formerly of Nero in Third.

Crystal Groves

• Crystal Groves holds their monthly althing and Officers Meeting this saturday.

Desert Winds

• Celebrates it's first weekend after the positive vote of CoM Their first coronation, of King Mathias, will occur at the end of the month at Dragon blade wars later this month.

Dragonspine

• Celebrates the knighting of Randall in the order of the flame.
• Crown Qualifications for Pegasus Valley to occur Aug 1st.
• August 2 Crown Quals will be held for Westmarch at their chapter, Wavehaven Hawk to Autocrat. Grix and Euric are the candidates for the Prince.
• Pegasus Valley has released the results form their Crown Quals. Tiwaz and Styxx have qualed for Champion, Cassandrah for Duchess.

Emerald Hills

• Stormdancer has put forth several challenges to the populous of Mourningwood Glen, where she is Regent.

Golden Plains

• Golden plains celebrates their new knight of the flame Jynx Mercades.

Goldenvale

Haranshire

• Aug 1-3 Battle of the Dens
• August 2 Haranshire and the picnic basket auction which will raise money for iron chef at moonshine will be held.

Iron Mountains

• Video Promotion for ...stock.
• Continues to celebrate their first Principality to achieve kingdom status. They also celebrte the knighting of their subject Sindari.
• Oderic has declared for the office of Principality Champion, again.

Neverwinter

• Wednesday at 9:00 est; Winter's Edge will hold their usual vent meeting.

Rising Winds

• Frostlands has elected a treasurer, what they are calling a Quaestor, to assist their Prime Minister. Ashen is their first such officer.
• August 3 Althing Western Gate
• Tanath sent out a mailer outlining Western Gate's strategy for Kingdom to all of the perspective parks that might join them in the future. The parks included in the mailer are Phoenix Tears (Springfield, IL), Falcon Tor (Ashland, Missouri), Centerpoint (Kansas City, KS) Heartland (Cameron, Missouri), Knoblands (Springfield, Missouri), Trails End (Buffalo, MO), Steel River (Little Rock, Arkansas), Forsaken Lakes (Galesburg, IL), Dragons Tale (Robinson, IL), Cursed Prairie (East Peoria, IL), and Cordis Medagar (St.Charles, MO).

Wetlands

• Intents for local Monarchy are due this week in the chapter of Ironwood.

Freeholds

• August 1-3 (Fri-Sun) North Haven presents Gathering of Shadows XI Kirkland, IL will include 5 meals, camping fees, and some of the most awesome questing and battlegames in all of Amtgard. Occurring at McQueen Forest Preserve in Kirkland, IL. Cost is 20$ for the weekend.
• Aug 1-3 The Freehold of Five Banners is performing demonstrations, taking part in boffer panel discussions, and running a fighting pit at DefCon (a SF/Fantasy convention in Tulsa).

Other Games

• August 1-3 Combined Realms War or CRW will be held August 1-3 at the Burnett County Fairgrounds. Site and Feast fee = $24. Crew is the HFS equivalent to Clan.

News Stories

• News article about a demo put on by Blackspire. Photos from the demo, by Aphaydren.
• Article on Amtgard in Tampa, Florida.

Blackspire

Burning Lands

• July 23-27th The 26th annual Gathering of the Clans. See the Event Report for further details.

Celestial Kingdom

• Several Caravans are leaving the Celestial Kingdom for clan Tuesday thru Thursday.

Crystal Groves

Dragonspine

• Declarations for Principality office will close in Westmarch on the 26th.
• July 26 Declarations for Office in Pegasus Valley are due.

Emerald Hills

• Photos by Aylin from Emerald Hills Endreign.

Golden Plains

Goldenvale

• July 26th Bitter Coast, Kingdom of Goldenvale will be hosting it's Second Warlord Workshop, hosted by Sir Haggis

Hoestroker.

• July 27th Haranshire Crown Quals

Iron Mountains

• There is a new campaign to fundraise for rebuilding the castle and storing it over the months it is unused.

Neverwinter

• July 27th Tetsu Bonsai has invited Falling Fire to join them for a feast. It is rumored that the group will be raided by the Sakura Moon Shogunate

Rising Winds

• Heartwynd and Bighead have both declared for the office of monarch in the upcoming Elections for Western Gate. Declarations officially begin on September 7th and run until their Crown Quals on September 21st. Voting will begin at Midnight on that day and end on October 5th and our Coronation is scheduled for the weekend of October 19th due to Archon and Banner Wars
• The Althing brought by the populous of Thundering Rivers to remove their Baron Lucian Firethought from office failed by one vote. The disagreement has caused a park split.
• July 25 to 27 Western Gate's Birthday Bash
• Gryphon's Perch will hold 'Unclan'.

Wetlands

• Stormwall will hold a 'Pirate Revel' for all those not traveling to clan.

Freeholds

'Wednesday July 16th to Wednesday July 23rd'

• The Text version of Dor Un Avathar has been released.

Blackspire

• The Puyallup, Washington Chapter, Angel's Haven Will hold their Midreign on July 19.
• News article about a demo put on by Blackspire. Photos from the demo, by Aphaydren.

Burning Lands

• Clan almost upon us; remember to pack jugs for water, there will be no potable water on site, but there is some near site. Also don't forget; camp chairs, shade, food, and money.

Celestial Kingdom

• July 20 Intents to run for Kingdom Prime Minister due to the Monarch, King Crinos.

Crystal Groves

• July 19th Crystal Groves will hold the monthly Althing, followed by the monthly officers meeting.

Dragonspine

• Land Audits for Dragonspine are due August 15th. Among other things a chapter above shire must submit; Copies of bank statements, lists of current officers, list of dues paid members, results of the most recent crown quals, and copies of signings for the last six months. Furthermore, all groups must meet minimum attendance requirements equal to 60% of the numbers they needed to become their current size. This works out to 24 for Principalities, 18 for Duchies, 9 for Baronies, and 3 for Shires.

Emerald Hills

• The Emerald hills is thinking of making a principality type entity out of it's Oklahoma chapters and the surrounding freeholds. The parks involved all sound very excited. If approved the group could include; Soul's Crossing in Memphis, Tennessee; Sovereign's Solace in Hernando, Mississippi; Candlekeep in Senatobia, Mississippi; Mystic Mountains in Mena, Arkansas; Storm Grove in Fort Smith, Arkansas; Riverstone in Tahlequah, Oklahoma; Five Banners in Tulsa, OK; Midnight Rain in Meeker, OK; an Stilled Waters in Stillwater , OK.

Golden Plains
Goldenvale

• A kingdom Althing will be held on the 19th.
• In Smithfield, Virginia Sea of Rhye holds their coronation on July 19.
• July 19th Bitter Coast, Kingdom of Goldenvale holds it's Midreign and Friends and Family Fun Day, a celebration of the friends and families that support us and our game.

Iron Mountains

• On July 19th The Principality of Steel Valley decided by althing vote to make their official name the Principality of Olympus. Prince Skrag has set a very aggresive timeline for the corpora committee, which will have their first meeting at Olympus Principality Coronation on August 8th-10th in Lacrosse, WI.

Neverwinter

• Winter's Edge Qualifications will be held at Shadow Forge on the 20th.
• July 19th Neverwinter Coronation, a one day event will be held at Saladino Park, in Brandon, Florida. Games start at 11:00 cost is 10 dollars.
• Azure Coast joins Neverwinter.

Rising Winds

• Phoenix Tears in Springfield, IL holds an Althing on the 20th.
• July 20th, Thundering Rivers in Elkhart Indiana holds an Emergency Althing. It is rumored that the purpose of this meeting is to remove their sheriff Lucian Firethought from office.
  
• The Frostlands will send some of it's members out to fight the battle of Serenity Valley on a paintball field in Hudson, WI It looks to be a little different from the historic battle though. This one has Reavers. Be sure the pack along some grenades.

Wetlands

• Feral has be reelected to the office of Kingdom Prime Minister, this will be his second consecutive term in the chair.
  
  

Freeholds

• July 18th-20th Sage's North Fest, Mists of the Dawn's event held in Minnesota. We are hoping to get more then 100 people out at the event. frostlands, crimson circle, and north haven I am expecting to get 90% of your populace out there. if transportation is an issue let us know ahead of time cause we might be able to rent some vans or buses for groups big enough that wouldn't mind throwing in some extra money. This will be an RSVP only event.

July 9th to July 16th

Revel King Swords are discovered. Foam Fighting for the masses. There is a discussion on Esam about how this will affect Amtgard.

River's End appears in a Utah newspaper.

The Kingdom of The Burning Lands

• Preparations continue for Clan. Glorious and Megiddo have promised blow through doors, a batter ram and bulidings to batter into.

The Kingdom of the Emerald Hills

• The Monarchy of the Emerald hills has release cryptic plans to invade their Oklahoma chapters on the 'weekend of the full moon'.

Celestial Kingdom

• This weekend was the election for Slaughter Creek's Regent. Visitors from Griffion's Keep and Fallen Sun pushed attendance to over one hundred.
• Pics From last weekends 4th of July Parade.
• HFS has invited Amtgard in the persons of the CK populous to join them at Castleton the property owned by Richard Garriot for a demo for Game designers.
• Kingdom PM intents are due by midnight, Sunday July 20th. Please either email Crinos your intent or post it to the CK forums. So far, the only person putting in an intent is Sylvanista.

The Kingdom of the Golden Plains

The Empire of the Iron Mountains

• Emperor mOZz will hold an Imperial Scheduling meeting on July 12th (Sat) in Darkmoon. All of the current Park Officers (Monarchs, Regents and PMs, or current working equivalents) AND folks planning on running for said offices, for Darkmoon, Northern Holdfast, Duchy IM, Crimson Dawn and Southgate Pass are invited to attend.
• The Duchy of Olympus discusses holding a contest to produce regalia for their officers.
• Photos from Rivermoor's midreign.

The Kingdom of Dragonspine

• High Oasis welcomes a visitor from Goldenvale; Sir Armen the Tall on July 12th. Pollux will be holding a BBQ in his guest's honor.
  
  
• Grix, and Euric have declared for Prince of Westmarch. Gwendair and Thistledown have declared for Regent. Laoric has declared for GMR.
• Declarations for Office begin in the Fairbanks, Alaska chapter Astral Winds.
• July 12th Dragonspine holds their Kingdom Midreign.The feast will be your choice of Guinness Roast beef, smoked pork cutlet, and smoked peppered turkey breast for the entree. The vegetable choices will be gilled marinated asparagus, seasoned steamed corn on the cob, vegetable medley. the starch choices are sour cream and garlic mashed potatoes. The desert will be cheesecake with a garnish of a cream cheese strawberry. On the 12th we will also be hosting a weapon master, an archery tournament and a "People's Choice" dragonmaster tourney. The cost to get into the feast is $5.00, and the doors open at 7pm. Hope to see you there!
• Eternal Coast is looking into new Heraldry. A combination of the old Silver Sun and Feanga symbols.

The Kingdom of Goldenvale

• July 12th Bitter Coast, Kingdom of Goldenvale will be holding it's Warskill Tournament in preparation for it's MidReign the following week.
• July 13th Coronation Feast for Twin Moons.

The Kingdom of the Wetlands

• King Margul has chosen to merge his mid-reign and Piratical Sabbatical.
• Crimson Moon will be visiting Shadow Keep in Mass on July 13th.

The Kingdom of Neverwinter

• Winter's Edge Talks about working toward Kingdom Status.
• The new Court of the kingdom of Neverwinter were announced. Squire Squire As Queen, Havoc as Prince Regent, and Sir Stinkfoot as Champion.

The Kingdom of the Rising Winds

• Tusocks, Kathrynn, and Thorvald, have declared for Monarch. Grumish and has thrown his hat in for Regent. Dart is so far the only candidate for Champion.
• Battle Cry and Quals for the Rising Winds are both being held on the same weekend, do to a certain inflexibility of their Corpora and King.
• July 9th is the beginning of 'Life Fest' so the Frostlands will not have access to their usual Park that weekend. However Crimson Circle is putting together a bus trip to the Bristol RenFair and have invited them to come along.
• July 13 Color Day at Western Gate: Theme is Roman Days - Regent Silverleaf is asking for volunteers to sign up to be reeves, monsters, roleplaying monsters, npcs and other exciting roles. Remember, this is a show off day, for friends and family who otherwise don't see Amtgard. $5.00 feast will be provided.

The Kingdom of Blackspire

• Shouding Mist will hold a camp out at Kopachuck State Park-Group Camp Grounds. July 11-13. Cost for this event is 15$.

The Kingdom of Crystal Groves

• July 13th NO QUARTER – the Coronation of the King of Crystal Groves and the Baron of Solstice To be held at the Wilsons Ruritan (same place as Feast of Fools) Huyett, Md. Doors open at 12:00 Lunch offered by the Freehold of Outlaw Point. Angela Mastersinger will be knighted at this event.

Freeholds

• The chapter of Kestral Keep has reportedly gone over to the Sakura Moon Shogunate. Kestral Keep was once known as Darkwater East.

Other Games

• The Kingdom of Kalladen Mid-Reign and Weapons Master Tourney will be held on Sunday, July 13th. It will be a one day event at Lover’s Leap in Cameron Park, and we will also be serving a potluck lunch, which means we have no idea what will be served except for hamburgers. Kalladen was once a chapter of the Emerald Hills called the Boarderlands.

July 2nd to July 8th

The Kingdom of The Burning Lands

The Kingdom of the Emerald Hills

• Storm Grove in Ft. Smith, Arkansas begins to experiment with a fighter Practice.

Celestial Kingdom

• Althing agenda items due to the Kingdom Prime Minister Sylvanista in the Celestial Kingdom on Saturday the 6th.
• On the fourth of July the Celestial Kingdom Monarchy will walk in the Round Rock frontier days parade. Participants need to be in line by 9 a.m. (8am if you want to be included in the parade contest.) The parade will start in Round Rock at First Texas Bank (corner of Lee Street and Round Rock Ave) and will proceed through Historic Downtown Round Rock ending at the Sam Bass Little League Baseball Fields.

The Kingdom of the Golden Plains

The Empire of the Iron Mountains

• July 5th Truevale in Rock Springs, Wyoming will hold their local Dragonmaster competition.

The Kingdom of Dragonspine

The Kingdom of Goldenvale

• Sea of Rhye in Smithfield, Virginia will hold their Crown Qualifications on Sunday.
• On July 6th Twin Moons in Buffalo, New York holds Crown Tourney as well as the A&S competition

The Kingdom of the Wetlands

• July 5th; Second Annual Bardic Bash will be held in the Wetlands.
• Wetlands Relic Quest will be held on July 6th in Wallisville, TX. GMR Porthos will be the autocrat.

The Kingdom of Neverwinter

• July 5th - 6th Kingdom Elections for Neverwinter. The candidates for monarch are Sir Auwyne and Squire Squire. Votes to be submitted to the KPM Nocturne by no later than July 7th at midnight. Voteing results were released on Tuesday. Squire Squire Was elected the new Monarch.
• Neverwinter, although a Floating Crown, is also looking for a new Kingdom Seat.

The Kingdom of the Rising Winds

• Thundering Rivers in Elkhart, Indiana, King Clyde has called an emergency Kingdom Althing to be held July 6th at Woodlawn Naturn Center 604 Woodlawn Ave Elkhart, IN 46514. In reguards to the former Prime Minister stabbing a park member with an ink pen and the Baron took no action. All are welcome to attend as it is an open meeting.
• Freeman's Forest in Huber Heights, Ohio will hold their Weaponmaster and Midreign on Saturday.
• July 6th Voting for officers of Western Gate in St Louis, Missouri ends at midnight.
• Springfield, Missouri chapter Knoblands will hold a feast on July 6. Succulent roasted fowls will be provided, vie one with with the other for the vacated post of champion in a tourney, and bring forth thine treasures created for judging.
• July 6th Gryphon's Perch will hold their Weaponmaster/ Dragon Master

The Kingdom of Blackspire

• On Saturday at Dragon's Forge in Oregon City, Oregon will have a Battlegame Day and Kingdom Althing.
• July 6th Blackspire will hold their Ithra at Greenwood Keep in Lacey, Washington. Classes will include arrow builds and Heraldry creation.

The Kingdom of Crystal Groves

• CGBOD Meeting will held on Saturday.

Other Games

• July 4th - 6th Blood games A New England LARP Gathering and Competition at Ye Olde Commons.

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