Westmarch
a hypothetical future chapter of Dragonspine located in the state of California.
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Heraldry
History
The California groups have tried more than once to put together a confederacy strong enough to reach kingdom status. For a variety of reasons this has not yet come to pass. There is talk of a new effort toward kingdom status in Northern California under the name Westmarch.
"This is true Wavehaven, Wyvern's Spur, Falcon's Reach, Seven Sleeping Dragons, and Crimson Wood will all be forming Westmarch. Ashen Spire will most likely join after they sign paper work with BL to become an amtgard land. Dame Ailanthus is heading this project at this time if you would like more info. She has a profile on Http:www.caamtgard.com under her name if you wish to contact her."-Hannibal Finnvarra Shadowale
"It'll be a while before we're a kingdom. The grouping is closer to how the IM handles things. There is a group of core lands that can't be more than 250 miles from the center of Berkeley, CA that make up the main body of the principality. Those group's members have the ability to run for principality office and vote in principality wide elections.
All other groups signed under westmarch would function more like any land currently signed under a static crown kingdom. While they wouldn't be eligible to vote in Westmarch's elections/althings, they would still have the ability to provide input on how things are run and suggest improvements (especially if suggestions would have an impact on their land at a local level)."-Grix
This is the 3rd real attempt at getting the lands to band together. The first was before I started playing amtgard and consisted of a meeting that was scheduled between Wavehaven and Crystalline Confederacy. I'm told CC didn't show. After that, the issue was brought up again and again over the years as more groups popped up in northern CA.
The second attempt was between Wavehaven, Crimson Wood and Wyvern's Spur. That time we got as far almost finishing a corpora before the effort died out because a lot of the amtgarders in the area lost interest and we had problems agreeing on a few basics.
This time around, we've taken the corpora that we wrote the first time and elected 2 representatives from each of the interested northern CA lands (at the time this process was started, that included all 5 northern CA lands) to go over it together and rework it into something we could all get behind. After many meetings in person and over the phone, we're almost done.
At this point, a few things need to happen before Westmarch is formed. Dragonspine needs to approve our Corpora. The 5 founding lands of Westmarch need to each vote to either accept the corpora that we've all worked on and join Westmarch or to stay independent. Westmarch needs to submit a proposal to Dragonspine detailing the status of all the lands that agree to form Westmarch. Once Dragonspine accepts us, we'll elect monarchy.
It's been a long process for most of us and we're finally going to make it happen this time.-Grix
At an althing held Saturday June 8th, 2007, the voting populace of Siar Geata decided unanimously to petition Dragonspine. And they have decided to join Westmarch as soon as they are official.
See WM Monarchy
Subgroups
Soon to be the Westmarch Confederacy
-Shire of the Seven Sleeping Dragons -San Luis Obispo, CA -Crimson Wood - Rohnert Park, CA -Shire of Falcon's Reach - Sacramento, CA -Wyvern's Spur - Berkeley, CA -Duchy of Wavehaven -Santa Cruz, CA
Groups in California that have been contacted or are going to be contacted about joining.
-The Shire of Aradix -Van Nuys, CA -The Shire Of Raven's Hold - Riverside, CA -The Shire of the Eternal Coast - Santa Barbara, CA -Crimson Sanctum - Azusa, CA -Siar Geata - Escondido, CA -Ashen Spire -San Jose, CA
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