<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Honestly I am still fleshing out my persona. She is late 12th early 13th century Irish. When I did my original name search I found Irial as female. Welllll, I now know that is wrong, it's male. So I am currently working that in actually. The </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">original </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">concept is Irish Mercenary who uses horse breeding as a respectable operation. So what I have now is the daughter of a minor noble who sneaks around as a
male mercenary name Irial. Still brain storming it all out.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Irial<br></font><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> HerrDetlef <herrdetlef@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, January 27, 2011 11:50:19 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Ravensfort] Personae<br></font><br>
<div>I was just reading my copy of the new Known World Handbook, and the thought occurred to me that I don't really know a whole lot about Raven's Forters' personae. I mean, I know general geographic stuff and all that (the Baron is Norman--UGH--the Baroness is Irish, the coming baron and baroness are Italian), but I don't really know details. I don't remember the last time I sat down and talked persona with anybody.</div>
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<div>So, in that interest, I'd like to open up a thread so that I can ask you all some of the nitty gritty about your own personae. And I will start.</div>
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<div>Detlef von Marburg is a Frank living in 12th-century Thuringia (Land <font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Th</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">üringen</font>)</font>. He was born in the town of Marburg (soon to be the site of the Elisabethskirche, one of the first non-transitional Gothic churches to be built in Germany) but currently resides in the town of Eisenach. In the late 12th century, Marburg was a part of Thuringia; in future years, the western portions of Thuringia will break off and form the nucleus of the Land Hessen. By the end of the 13th century, Thuringia will fall through accidents of inheritance into the hands of the Wettin dynasty that also controls the March of Meissen; the two states together will merge into the Duchy of Saxony (Herzogtum Sachsen), which is also under Wettin control.</div>
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<div>Detlef aspires one day to be the chamberlain to His Highness the Landgrave of Thuringia, and for the moment he occupies his time as a clerk for the current chamberlain. He was educated at a Benedictine monastery in Erfurt, although he is not as accomplished a reader as he'd like to be (he doesn't have enough confidence in his Latin to tackle Virgil's Aeneid just yet), and even though he's pretty skilled at rhetoric, Detlef has never mastered the art of writing. Detlef once aspired to enter a Benedictine monastery, but he's quite taken with court life at the Wartburg right now, and he feels himself too secular for the life of a religious. The Wartburg is quite an exciting place, now that Hermann II is Landgrave. His Highness constantly invites knight-poets to his court, and the pieces they perform in the great hall are absolutely magnificent. Many of those poets are inspired by the work of the French poet Chretien de Troyes, and stories of King
Arthur and his Knights of the Rount Table abound in the hall of the Wartburg. Even though he has been trained in archery and owns two swords that the Landgrave had given him, Detlef has never armored up and participated in a tournament or gone to war. Detlef often dreams of following the knights on Crusade to the Holy Land, if only as a standard-bearer. He also dreams of having his own dairy farm near Eisenach, with a half-timbered house where he can entertain guests on a much smaller scale than the Landgrave does. One day. One day...</div>
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<div>Detlef's English mother, Lady Alix de Curci, actually knows Eleanor of Aquitaine (by the Wrath of God, Queen of England), and she took him with her to Westminster Abbey to witness the coronation of King Richard in 1189. That was a rather daunting experience, since most of the people in attendance were speaking French (Detlef only knows German and English and a few phrases in Danish, and can read some Latin). The connections that Detlef's mother has with the Plantagenets create some awkwardness at the Wartburg; Henry II and Eleanor's daughter Mathilda married the Saxon duke Henry the Lion, who in 1180 was deprived of his duchy (and also of the Duchy of Bavaria) by Friedrich Barbarossa. The Landgrave of Thuringia has supported the Emperor in his conflicts with Henry the Lion, and at times he has been suspicious of Detlef's sympathies, considering the family connection (suspicions, one can be sure, that were fuelled largely by the Emperor's staunchest
supporters in the Landgrave's court). Detlef has never met Henry or Mathilda, and he has never really had any interest in the conflict between Henry and the Emperor.</div>
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<div>Okay! Who's next?</div>
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<div>Yours in these Current Middle Ages,</div>
<div>Detlef von Marburg<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,<br>þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon,<br>hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.<br>Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,<br>
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,<br>egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð<br>feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad,<br>weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,<br>oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra<br>
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,<br>gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!<br></div>
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