Eternal Coast
A freehold shire located in Santa Barbara, CA.
Heraldry
History
The first Santa Barbara chapter was the Shire of Feanga (founded by Celedraug in September 2001, after being introduced to Amtgard via the Seven Sleeping Dragons). Feanga originally met at the Santa Barbara Mission greens before moving to Oak Park.
By summer 2002, political issues had split the group into two: Feanga, still at Oak Park in Santa Barbara, and the Shire of the Silver Sun (founded by evil Randy, Nelle Silver Sun, Melinda Silver Sun, and Taly), at an unnamed park in Goleta, just north of Santa Barbara. Silver Sun went on to become the seat of the Crystalline Confederacy for some time, while Feanga willfully remained a freehold. While Silver Sun was initially the larger group, Feanga grew to a respectable size within half a year after the split, and within two years Silver Sun's membership dwindled below that of Feanga.
Finally in October 2004 the two groups settled their differences and merged together under a new name, the Shire of the Eternal Coast. Tauron Xian was the first Sheriff of that shire, but as he says, its founding was really a collective effort by all involved in both Feanga and Silver Sun. The new group aimed to combine the different strengths of the previous two groups' wildly different approaches to Amtgard.
Over the years, Eternal Coast considered joining under several larger groups, including taking Silver Sun's place in the Crystalline Confederacy, joining under Ardent Sands of Arizona, or joining under Wavehaven along with the Seven Sleeping Dragons, but none of those came to fruition. When the Principality of Westmarch began to form, the dwindling membership of Eternal Coast became excited at the prospect of joining a united Californian Amtgard, but local activity shrank to nearly nothing before anything could become of that idea.
This group was regularly active with respectable attendance until at least the end of 2006, with attendance and then activity dwindling throughout 2007. As of April 27, 2008, activity is reported to be three people meeting biweekly in the park.
People
Active membership:
Inactive membership:
- peoples names go here
Founding membership:
- Tauron Xian (1st Sheriff, Guildmaster of Monks)
- Aoloebio (1st Prime Minister)
- Heironius (1st Regent)
- Aragon (1st Guildmaster of Reeves)
- Melinda Silver Sun (1st Champion)
- Petrucio (1st Captain of the Guard, 2nd Sheriff, de facto 5th Sheriff?)
- Celedraug (1st Scribe, founder of Feanga)
- Shenkrolan Faroxir (3rd Sheriff?)
- Skulblaka (nth Prime Minister, nth Captain of the Guard, 4th Sheriff?)
- Dak (de facto 6th Sheriff?)
- Laelu
- Firgull
- and many others
Some regular members circa 2005-2006:
Left to right, top to bottom: Petrucio, Tyler, Zhen Xiao, Tauron Xian, Arkon Bloodblade Maulfist McKay, Celedraug, Kelth, Aoloebio, Laelu, Skulblaka, Connor, Melinda Silver Sun, Aragon
Contacts and Directions
Contact Dak at [email protected] or by at phone (805) 708-3304. She is also reachable on the Westmarch forums.
Eternal Coast currently meets about every other week on Sunday afternoon at approximately 1:00 PM in Oak Park.
- To reach Oak Park from north of Santa Barbara, follow the 101 south to the Las Positas exit, then turn left on Las Positas. Turn right onto Tallant Road, and keep going till it seemingly dead-ends on Clinton Terrace. Turn left on Clinton, and almost immediately turn right again back onto Tallant. Tallant will soon appear to dead-end again, but it actually continues to the right. Turn right there, and then turn right on Alamar. Oak Park will be on your right; just look for swinging foam.
- To reach Oak Park from south of Santa Barbara, follow the 101 north to the Pueblo exit, turn right on West Junipero Street, and then left on Alamar. Oak Park will be on your left; just look for swinging foam.
Eternal Coast has a website, though there's not much there right now. Some old news, images, records and such may be found at the old Feanga website.
