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Welcome to the AmtWiki Welcome to the AmtWiki, the online Amtgard Encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This week in Amtgard Around the Amtworld Join the Amtgard page on facebook for updates on events, chapters, and questions. Burning Lands Celebrated the knighting of it's former regent, Shawna Blackheart. She is the #192nd Knight of the Crown ever created by all the kingdoms of Amtgard. Emerald Hills Apr. 11-12: Midreign/WM/DM (Atoka) Apr. 18-19: Wonderland event (BF / ES) May 16-17: Crown Quals TBD May 30-31 Elections June 6-7: Kingdom Visit to Mourning Wood Glen June 20-21: Coronation Warmaster/ A&S competition Celestial Kingdom Aug 1: Weapon Master/ Dragon Master & PM Elections being held at Burkhaven and hosted by Murky Waters Aug 21-23: Kingdom Midreign to be held at Camp Lone Star Oct 4: Crown Qualifications at Traitor's Gate Nov 6-8: End Reign/Coronation to be held at Camp Lone Star. Golden Plains May 16th Midreign Lemasa, TX May 26th Weaponmaster Lubbock, TX June 6th Mystery event TBA at a later time August 2nd Crown Quals, Warskill and Election in Irongate August 15th Coronation Iron Mountains Wanna Run Rakis? Got come cool ideas? Bids for Rakis have been opened for a while, and would like to remind you that if you are interested in running Rakis, please let me know! Submit your bid! Deadline will be 1/7/2012! contact me! [email protected] This past weekend Starmount hosted The Sequel, in Mankato, MN, drawing 102 players from 8 states with 3 kingdoms and nearly every chapter within a 400 miles radius represented at the event. Goldenvale Brother Fredrik doesn't declare for monarch, but others continue to campaign for him. Open bidding has begun for Fury of the Northlands post Dragonspine Craft night has moved to back to Azreal-Jade's house, starts wednesdays at seven pm. Weaponmaster and dragonmaster will be the first or second weekend of December A Starcraft themed series of battlegames continues. Wetlands Coronation XXXIII was held at Martin Dies, Jr. State Park. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECEyZjNqr3E&feature=youtu.be Neverwinter The Principality of Winter's Edge celebrates the elevation of Faila Ranae to Barony status. Blackspire Thousand Stars XII Monster Bash II May 27-29th: Thousand Stars is back again for your annual castle battle needs, provided by the Principality of Stormhaven! Grant County Fairgrounds, WA http://www.facebook.com/events/295547040484245/ Demo at at Crypticon (massive Horror Convention) in Seatac over memorial day weekend and I'm looking for volunteers that have awesome monster costumes or evil looking garb. We're going to have a demo on Saturday, May 28th 1:00p-2:00p and another on Sunday, May 29th 11am-Noon. I have eight free day passes for both days of the event for those that can be a part of this demo. Rosewood Memorial XI June 1-4: Northwest Amtgard's Full Weekend Roleplay Campout is now in its eleventh year! This year, the Pirates have landed! If you like roleplay and plenty of stick-swinging fun, you don't want to miss this event! Cornet Bay ELC at Deception Pass Styate Park, Whidbey Island, WA http://www.rosewoodmemorial.webs.com Malek and Enayat this weekend, they have too many schedule conflicts with SCA events and musical performances his means that Malek will be teaching combat arrow construction and Enayat will be teaching Person woven buttons this Saturday before we have our IO relic quest. I look forward to having them here and hope our archers and garbers take the opportunity to learn new techniques. Rising Winds Exar takes up the reigns as kingdom prime minister. Crystal Groves Is holding their kingdom midreign at Feast of Fools in Morgantown WV, May 4th-6th Info Desert Winds Tal Dagore Freeholds Chapters Find previous editions of Current Events for 2011 here. Current Events Template Also see Upcoming Events for local event listings.

Resources Rulebook Acronyms Documents History Resources Things Pics of the Week Meeting of the Knight's Circle of the Kingdom of Dragonspine. Kingdom Navigation Listed in the order of their founding. Burning Lands Emerald Hills Celestial Kingdom Golden Plains Iron Mountains Goldenvale Dragonspine Wetlands Neverwinter Blackspire Rising Winds Crystal Groves Desert Winds Freeholds Amtgard Personages Find here the famous or the infamous. A-F G-L M-S T-Z Contributors Groups Lions and Warriors By Michele Ellington Tawnee Darkfalcon This one is a history lesson on the award of the Lion and Warrior. How ironic these statements are! I feel pressed to offer a little history lesson. When we first started the club, the only order offered for fighting was the Order of the Lion. At that time, knights had a very definite code of conduct, which was expected of them. Not everyone in the club wanted to be a knight. The Corsairs and a few others recognized and freely acknowledged that this code of conduct was not for them, and did not even solicit Orders of the Lion. However, it quickly became clear that some of these "mavericks" were some of our best fighters. It was clearly unfair that there was no way to make public note of their skills. So we invented the Order of the Warrior. It was intended that a fighter who earned ten Orders of the Warrior would become a Warlord. A Warlord was to be the equivalent of the Knight, but not bound by the code of conduct expected of the knights. When tournaments were conducted, the fighters were watched for both skill and conduct, and were awarded Warriors or Lions as was deemed appropriate by the Monarch. At this time, there was only one form of Knighthood. Roses attributed to titles of nobility, and Dragons were simply prestige awards. Time passed. Some confusion evolved about the intended difference between Warriors and Lions. An odd sort of dichotomy arose, wherein Lions were almost impossible to earn, yet Warlord was the club's most coveted title. In my opinion, this was the result of the fact that most of the really skilled fighters were the "maverick" types, and the Monarchs all but forgot the existence of Lions and what they meant. Warlord was a separate title from Knighthood, but was no longer regarded as its effective yin/yang opposite. Warlords won Crown Tourneys and were also knighted. The intent of the creation of the Warrior as an Order separate from the Lion fell away. The focus became wholly skill based, with no real evaluation of attitude included. Monarchs came and went. After a couple of years, the Monarch decided that Knighthood should be broken into four belts: Sword, Serpent, Flame, and Crown. To that end, the Orders were all evaluated. The Order hardest hit was Lion. The Monarch making the changes added Warriors as one of the Orders contributive to Knighthood of the Sword. Then he broke the Order of the Lion into Lions for combat and Griffins for chivalry. Then the persons holding Lions were subjectively reviewed, and decisions were made about whether they were good enough fighters to hold that number of Lions, or if some of those awards had been given for chivalry more than combat prowess. Some players' Lions were converted to Griffins, and, if I recall correctly, no longer contributed towards Knighthood of the Sword. As combat had always been the focus of the club, deleting combat orders to make them "orders of the nice guy", read "orders of the chump" by the much acclaimed Warlords who weren't expected to play fair, was hardly a compliment. So now you see the irony of your reference to Griffins as a highly sought after and scarcely offered award. I am sorry we lost the dichotomy between Warlords and Knights. I think that a lot of the problems we experience today with Knights acting in unsportsman like and un-chivalrous fashions would be alleviated if there were another Prestige Track available to those who aren't truly "knightly stuff". I have mixed emotions about whether the "code of knightly conduct" should be enforceable, for right and wrong are ever subject to interpretation. But there was a time when those who knew themselves to prefer a less "moral" set of expectations were able to earn prestigious titles and awards for their skill alone. With this option available, it was certainly easier to argue that Knights should be expected to meet certain behavioral requirements. Our Five Newest Knights Darrian de Craymore : Knight of the Crown : Blackspire Flare : Knight of the Serpent : Rising Winds Hexloc : Knight of the Flame : Rising Winds Megiddo sel Esdraelon:Knight of the Flame : Wetlands Grumish Arowyn:Knight of the Flame : Rising Winds {SITENAME} Statistics {CURRENTDAYNAME}, {CURRENTDAY} {CURRENTMONTHNAME} {CURRENTYEAR} {CURRENTTIME} There are currently {NUMBEROFARTICLES} articles in this database. There are currently {NUMBEROFUSERS} users registered on the {SITENAME}. You are currently browsing the {SITENAME} as {CURRENTUSER}.