ARCH - Elfsea Defender
baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org
baron at elfsea.ansteorra.org
Tue Jul 25 14:43:09 PDT 2000
Galen here!
Baron Rumil asked:
> His Excellency Galen mentioned some time ago that there > would be something special for archers at Elfsea
> Defender. Was this is? Or is there something another > archery tournament at Elfsea that we should be thinking
> about?
>
> Rumil
>
> At 2:06 PM -0500 7/24/00, Duke, Wes wrote:
> >Archers of Ansteorra,
> >Plans have changed. Instead of the Royal Huntsman
> >Tourney being at Elfsea Defender, it has been moved to > >Raven's Fort Defender of the Fort. This is
While Royal Huntsman is a neat and special thing, it's
not _my_ neat and special thing. The Archery Defender of
Elfsea will be chosen in a formal Tournament of Archery.
The shooting format will be a Royal Round, but that's the
least of it. Archers will hire heralds to announce them
and brag on their achievements and ambitions. Prizes
will be awarded to archers whose appearance and conduct
on the range adds the most to the competition. Here's a
excerpt from a post I made to the Elfsea list:
As to what we are picturing and proposing for Elfsea
Defender, and what we've been discussing since it was
announced that Allessandra & I would be baron &
baroness, let me try to paint a picture ...
It's early in the morning. Too early. It seems the
sun is barely up, but the wake-up heralds, those
heroes without whom little would get done, are crying
the site. The heavy fighters groan, roll over and go
back to sleep; armor inspection isn't til noon, and
they've been partying. The rapier fighters rise
slowly, dress leisurely and begin their morning
routines. There's time for breakfast, because their
armor inspection isn't till 9:30. The archers are up,
dressed and armed in a trice. There's coffee waiting
at the archery range and the greatest prize in
Ansteorra that can be won with a bow is waiting there
too. The competition starts at 9:00.
The baron and baroness are there, and a sizable crowd
has gathered as well, and the range is designed to
accomdate them. The finest archers from all over
Ansteorra have come, and the field is festooned with
banners, pennants atop each target, and the heralds
are ready. Kerrick is determined to keep the collar
and banner of the Defender of Elfsea, his
home barony, but Lord Fearghus, the Royal Huntsman,
Archery Champion of the Steppes and Guardian of the
Tor, is set on adding to his titles today the
championship of what is also his home barony. And
former Defenders of Elfsea are returning, too,
including Don Sebastion, and Lady Innes, as well as
other great names of the firing line like HL Gilli,
Lord Aldwin, Lord Plachoya, and up-and-coming archers
like Master Pug, Laird Sean, and many more. There is
a golden arrow as a prize, as well as the traditional
collar and banner, but the big prize is that
the airline ticket donated by Lord Tarkus this year
is going to the new Archery Defender. Nobles and
spectators are cheering for and wagering on their
favorites. By the time the archers have gotten down
to the timed shoot round, though, the crowd is quiet
and watching intently.
By 11:00, or 11:30 at the latest, the new archery
defender is known and it's time for the rapier list...
- Galen
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