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'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 Allthing 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. Brennon 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 Kestrel 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

Allthing 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 Allthing 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