Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan, of Inland Ocean in the Kingdom of Blackspire

”If Amtgard were a card game, I'd be a foiled rare.”

at Pac War, 2007

Kubla Khan first encountered Amtgard in 2001 at the Barony of Greenwood Keep, at Olympia, WA, during an invasion by the Barony of Inland Ocean. Kubla became an instant convert to the game.

In 2004 Kubla relocated to Seattle, WA and joined Inland Ocean. Kubla has served several offices including multiple terms as Prime Minister for the Principality of the Northern Lights, the Barony of Inland Ocean, and the Barony of Greenwood Keep. From 2005 to 2006 Kubla served as Monarch of Inland Ocean for two terms.

Kubla is a regular participant at Pac War and Thousand Stars in the pacific northwest. In 2007 he attended the Gathering of the Clans.

Titles:

Khan - Given by Prince Damian - NL, March 2007

Offices:

1. Chancellor (GWK), May 2003 - November 2003
2. Chancellor (IO), July 2004 - June 2005
3. Baron (IO), September 2005 - March 2006
4. Baron (IO), March 2006 - September 2006
5. Prime Minister (NL), December 2006 - May 2007
6. Prime Minister - IO, May 2007 - January 2008

Class Masterhoods:

Master Druid - Given by Prince Drilillithon - NL, May 2007

Kubla takes his name from the 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

• In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
• A stately pleasure-dome decree :
• Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
• Through caverns measureless to man
• Down to a sunless sea.
• So twice five miles of fertile ground
• With walls and towers were girdled round :
• And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
• Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
• And here were forests ancient as the hills,
• Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
• But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
• Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
• A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
• As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
• By woman wailing for her demon-lover !
• And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
• As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
• A mighty fountain momently was forced :
• Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
• Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
• Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
• And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
• It flung up momently the sacred river.
• Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
• Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
• Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
• And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
• And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
• Ancestral voices prophesying war !

• The shadow of the dome of pleasure
• Floated midway on the waves ;
• Where was heard the mingled measure
• From the fountain and the caves.
• It was a miracle of rare device,
• A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
• A damsel with a dulcimer
• In a vision once I saw :
• It was an Abyssinian maid,
• And on her dulcimer she played,
• Singing of Mount Abora.
• Could I revive within me
• Her symphony and song,
• To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
• That with music loud and long,
• I would build that dome in air,
• That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
• And all who heard should see them there,
• And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
• His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
• Weave a circle round him thrice,
• And close your eyes with holy dread,
• For he on honey-dew hath fed,
• And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Affiliated Groups

• Templars
• Principality of the Northern Lights

Additional Photos

at Greenwood Keep, 2001

More Information

http://www.myspace.com/fluxbusker

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