Empire - User contributions [en]

Maps

2017-09-08T12:05:07Z

Daisy:

__NOTOC__
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==The Empire==
<span5>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4--2017.png|caption=Superdetailed colour Empire Map|width=500|align=center}}
</span5>
<span5>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map|width=500|align=center}}
</span5>
</row-fluid>

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<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

Maps

2017-09-08T12:03:33Z

Daisy:

__NOTOC__
<row-fluid>
==The Empire==
<span6>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4--2017.png|caption=Superdetailed colour Empire Map|width=500|align=center}}
</span6>
<span6>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map|width=500|align=center}}
</span6>
</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

Maps

2017-09-08T12:01:57Z

Daisy:

__NOTOC__
<row-fluid>
==The Empire==
<span6>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4--2017.png|caption=Superdetailed colour Empire Map|width=600|align=center}}
</span6>
<span6>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map|width=600|align=center}}
</span6>
</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

Maps

2017-09-08T12:01:16Z

Daisy: adding colour map

__NOTOC__
<row-fluid>
<span6>
==The Empire==
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4--2017.png|caption=Superdetailed colour Empire Map|width=600|align=center}}
</span6>
<span6>
{{CaptionedImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map|width=600|align=center}}
</span6>
</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-MASTER-colour-e4-2017.png

2017-09-08T11:46:01Z

Daisy: Colour version of whole Empire and discovered lands, updated Sept2017, includes corrections to b&w map as follows: Tribute ruined, Dalvi visible. MAX print size c.108cm wide @150ppi. Beware of text readability!

Colour version of whole Empire and discovered lands, updated Sept2017, includes corrections to b&w map as follows:
Tribute ruined, Dalvi visible.

MAX print size c.108cm wide @150ppi. Beware of text readability!

Maps

2017-09-03T19:50:20Z

Daisy: /* The Empire */

__NOTOC__
==The Empire==
<row-fluid>

<span4>

</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map}}
</span4>

<span4>

</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Map-illustrated-superdetailed-e3-2017.png

2017-09-03T19:48:36Z

Daisy: Accurate as of e4 2017.

Accurate as of e4 2017.

File:Map-tactical-MASTER-IC-01.png

2017-09-03T19:34:52Z

Daisy: Daisy uploaded a new version of "File:Map-tactical-MASTER-IC-01.png": Big hole. No Mournwold yet.

Maps

2017-09-03T19:27:18Z

Daisy: /* The Empire */

__NOTOC__
==The Empire==
<row-fluid>

<span4>

</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-superdetailed-map.png|link=Map - Superdetailed Empire Map|caption=Superdetailed Empire Map}}
</span4>

<span4>

</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Tactical Master Map.png

2017-09-03T19:18:49Z

Daisy: Daisy uploaded a new version of "File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png": Now with big hole. Mournwold not updated yet (let's give it a season eh?)

Tactical map updated e3 2017

Hymn to Vigilance

2017-07-26T11:47:56Z

Daisy: changing link to one that works

Original tune Akk Fader. Very quiet recording of original [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUlBT_VWSeI&list=PL9STuhamGVYyzHKJQcl16ka8GlF8glg77&index=1 here].

<song>
I arm myself with sword and shield
To take the battlefield
And daily armed with faith I go
To face a subtler foe
An empire pure and whole
Must ever be our goal
''O let me ever vigilant stand''
''Defending faith and land''

False doctrines and deceitful words
Across the lands are heard
And all our sacrifice has bought
In the end shall be for nought,
If malcontents and fools
And raised on high to rule
''O let me ever vigilant stand''
''Defending faith and land.''

These words shall ever be our charge
Upon our souls writ large
The Empire is our destiny
Its guards and lords are we
For should we ever fail
The darkness shall prevail
''O let me ever vigilant stand''
''Defending faith and land''
</song>

[[Category:Highguard Music]]
[[Category:Highguard]]
[[Category:Music]]

Map - Coloured Territories

2017-07-09T20:39:31Z

Daisy: adding ic version

OOC tactical map:
[[File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|685x600px|center|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|caption=Empire and neighbouring territories, as of e3 2017. Please do NOT use this map IC, it will look rubbish.]]

More IC version of the above map:
[[File:Map-tactical-MASTER-IC-01.png|685x600px|center|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-tactical-MASTER-IC-01.png|caption=Empire and neighbouring territories, as of Spring 381.]]

Territories of the Empire:
[[File:Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-watercolour.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, watercolour style]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-pencil-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-pencil.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, pencil crayon style]]

In scale, this map is around 900 miles north to south.

Out-of-date tactical map:
[[File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/6/6a/Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|caption=Campaign map at end of Winter 378YE, ooc style]]

''Maps by Daisy Abbott.''

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Map-tactical-MASTER-IC-01.png

2017-07-09T20:34:53Z

Daisy:

Map - Coloured Territories

2017-07-09T20:34:10Z

Daisy:

[[File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|685x600px|center|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|caption=Empire and neighbouring territories, as of e3 2017. Please do NOT use this map IC, it will look rubbish.]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-watercolour.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, watercolour style]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-pencil-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-pencil.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, pencil crayon style]]

In scale, this map is around 900 miles north to south.

[[File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/6/6a/Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|caption=Campaign map at end of Winter 378YE, ooc style]]

''Maps by Daisy Abbott.''

[[Category:Maps]]

Map - Coloured Territories

2017-07-09T19:02:46Z

Daisy: new map

[[File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|685x600px|center|link=https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/File:Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|caption=Empire and neighbouring territories, as of e3 2017]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-watercolour.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, watercolour style]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-pencil-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-pencil.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, pencil crayon style]]

In scale, this map is around 900 miles north to south.

[[File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/6/6a/Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|caption=Campaign map at end of Winter 378YE, ooc style]]

''Maps by Daisy Abbott.''

[[Category:Maps]]

Maps

2017-07-09T19:00:17Z

Daisy: /* Tactical Maps */

__NOTOC__
==The Empire==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-MASTER-2017e3.png|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Empire and enemies, e3 2017}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Tactical Master Map.png

2017-07-09T18:57:57Z

Daisy: Tactical map updated e3 2017

Tactical map updated e3 2017

Maps

2017-07-09T18:55:41Z

Daisy: /* Tactical Maps */

__NOTOC__
==The Empire==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-woodcut-hollow.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview Woodcut|caption=Empire Overview (Woodcut)}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Empire-map-illus.gif|link=Map - Empire Overview|caption=Empire Overview}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=EmpireDetailedMapThumb.jpg|link=Map - Detailed Empire|caption=Empire Detailed}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Imperial Nations==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapBrassCoastThumb.png|link=Brass Coast Maps|caption=The Brass Coast}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapDawnThumb.png|link=Dawn Maps|caption=Dawn}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapHighguardThumb.png|link=Highguard Maps|caption=Highguard}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapLeagueThumb.png|link=League Maps|caption=League}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapMarchesThumb.png|link=Marches Maps|caption=The Marches}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapNavarrThumb.png|link=Navarr Maps|caption=Navarr}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapUrizenThumb.png|link=Urizen Maps|caption=Urizen}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapVarushkaThumb.png|link=Varushka Maps|caption=Varushka}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=MapWintermarkThumb.png|link=Wintermark Maps|caption=Wintermark}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Barbarians==
<row-fluid>
<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Otkodov-simple.png|link=Otkodov|caption=Otkodov}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-barrens-illus.png|link=The_Barrens|caption=The Barrens}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==The Wider World==

<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=WorldSmallThumb.png|link=Map - Outside The Empire|caption=Outside the Empire}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

==Tactical Maps==
<row-fluid>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-region-keyword-better.jpg|link=Map - Regions with Keywords|caption=Regions with Keywords}}
</span4>

<span4>
{{ThreeColIconImage|file=Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|link=Map - Coloured Territories|caption=Coloured Territories}}
</span4>

</row-fluid>

Maps by Daisy Abbott.

Important note, control of territories and even regional keywords can change from event to event. Please try to make sure you are using the most recent version of the map that is available. There is no guarantee that the maps will be updated every event.

The [[Gazetteer]] tells you all about the places on the map while the [[Pronunciation guide]] tells you how they're said.

===Map Viewers===
Alongside the above, you can take a look at [http://larp.me.uk/PD/empire/map/ Nicholas Avenell's wonderful zoomable Google version of the Empire Map].

Also, Racheet Dave has now produced [http://empire.racheet.me/ a cool dynamic map] so you can study the Empire territory by territory.

[[Category:Maps]]

Crow on the Cradle

2017-05-08T13:58:25Z

Daisy: added Varushkan version

Original Song by Sydney Carter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8x0uMV1EsY)

=== Varushkan version ===
Lyrics and arrangement by Jude Reid and Daisy Abbott

<song>
Crow on the cradle, the wind and the storm
Now is the time for a child to be born
He'll laugh at the moon and he'll cry for the sun
And play in the sunlight when winter is done

Sang the crow on the cradle

But winter is hard and the snow it is deep
The frost and the hunger will keep him from sleep
You'll strive and you'll suffer but day after day
The winter will take your sweet baby away

Sang the crow on the cradle

The crow on the cradle the snow in the sky
Somebody's baby is born just to die
Crow on the cradle, the cruel wind's sting
Somebody's baby will not see the spring

Sang the crow on the cradle
Sang the crow on the cradle
Your mother and father they'll sweat and they'll save
To build you a coffin and dig you a grave
Hush little baby now never you weep
I've got a song that will put you to sleep

Sang the crow on the cradle

Oh crow on the cradle I'll weave him a charm
I'll guard him and watch him and keep him from harm
My cloak I will give him to cover his bed
And I will go hungry to see my child fed

Oh the crow on the cradle

Crow on the cradle, the wind and the storm
I'll rock him and hold him and keep my child warm
The lamps we will light and the hearth fires we'll burn
Oh crow on the cradle you'll never return

Oh you crow on the cradle
Oh you crow on the cradle (rpt)
</song>

=== Navarr version ===
New lyrics by David Proctor

<song>
The summer is ending, the brokers weigh corn
Now is the time for a child to be born
She'll laugh at the trees and cry without fear
And if she's a Thorn she'll carry a spear
Sang the crow on the cradle

And if it should be that this baby's a Vate
Never you mind if she shares Navarr's fate
With blood on her fingers and and a knife in her hands
And the Vallorn behind her wherever she stands
Sang the crow on the cradle

And when it should be that the child takes the Brand
They'll dance along with her and with her they'll stand
With a scar on her cheekbone And a suit of dark maille
And before her the ruins of Terunael
Sang the crow on the cradle

The crow on the cradle, the husks in the night
Somebody's baby is born to our fight
The crow on the cradle, the green and the black
Somebody's baby is not coming back
Sang the crow on the cradle

Your striding or steading will sweat and they'll fight
To hold back the vines that creep in the night
Hush-a-bye little one, never you weep
The corpse glade is ready for when you should sleep
Sang the crow on the cradle

Bring me my bow, and I'll shoot that bird dead
That's what Navarr and Thorn long ago said
The crow on the cradle, what can we do?
Ah, this is a thing that I'll leave up to you
Sang the crow on the cradle

The crow on the cradle the husks in the night
Somebody's baby is born for our fight
The crow in the cradle, the cities of dust
One day we'll take back all that we have lost
Sang the crow on the cradle
</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Navarr Music]]
[[Category:Navarr]]
[[Category:Music]]

Hercynia

2016-02-23T10:59:22Z

Daisy: /* Summersend */

{{stub}}
{{CaptionedImage|file=Regionsofhercynia.png|title=Ice-bound northern Hercynia is a forest territory entirely contained in the Nation of Wintermark|caption=Regions of Hercynia|align=left|width=448}}
== Overview ==
Ice-bound northern Hercynia is a forest territory entirely contained in the Nation of [[Wintermark]], situated in the Great Vale, a bowl of mountains that surround both Hercynia and [[Skarsind]]. It is an inhospitable place, but where the Trods flow so the Navarr travel. Over the centuries, the Navarr have made slow but steady inroads here, reclaiming much of the forest from the particularly malicious Vallorn that dwells within it.

The trees of Hercynia are ancient, and the soil of the forests is home to a great wealth of [[Materials#Dragonbone|dragonbone]] which for centuries was carefully harvested and used extensively by the runesmiths in the forges at [[#Treji|Treji]].

==Recent History==
The fall of [[Skarsind]] in 373YE left the people of Hercynia facing immediate danger, as the [[Thule]] orcs tried to force their way into the forest to achieve the capture of the whole of the Great Vale. Barbarian forces took the runeforges of [[#Treji|Treji]], but made no further ground. With the defeat of the Thule forces in Skarsind, it is likely that a concerted effort could be made to recover the territory claimed by the orcs.

Of particular concern to the people of Hercynia is the idea that concerted push from the orcs could result in the loss of more ground, and (coupled with the presence of the vallorn in Deer's Folly), the loss of the entire territory. Thankfully, the defeat of the Thule in Skarsind made this much less of a possibility. In the Winter of 377YE, the [[Imperial_Orcs_territories#The_Summer_Storm|Summer Storm]] army swept down from the foothills to the north into the Glade of Shadows and shattered the barbarian presence there. The Imperial orcs liberated Treji, and freed hundreds of enslaved Navarr. The commander of the barbarian orc presence, the hated Harak the Red, was not accounted for among the dead and is believed to still be at large in Hercynia.

== Major Features==
=== Treji ===
A stone-built steading in the heart of the winter forest at [[#The Glen of Shadows|The Glen of Shadows]], and one of the only places where the Navarr had a number of large forges, built with aid from the Winterfolk. [[Steinr]] apprentices are often placed with the Navarri for a time, to learn the working of wood alongside metal. The steading fell to the barbarian orcs in the fall of Skarsind in 372YE and was liberated by the Imperial orcs in the Winter of 377YE. The forges were devastated during the fighting and by last-ditch sabotage by the spiteful Thule defenders. Hundreds of Navarr slaves were liberated in the process, including a number of artisans who had been forced to create weapons and armour for their captors. A number of prisoners were unaccounted for, however - many of the runesmiths captured when the steading was taken had already been sent north to captivity in [[Otkodov]].

=== The [[Heartwood of the Great Vale]]===
The Heartwood of the Great Vale is a Bourse resource located in [[#Summersend|northern Summersend]]. Custodianship of the Heartwood is an [[Imperial Title]] that brings with it a Seat on the [[Imperial Bourse]]. It produces 25 Imperial wains of weirwood every season. Control is allocated to any Imperial citizen by open auction during the Winter Solstice.

=== The Gate of Summer ===
Two huge stones and a top lintel stand in the middle of a clearing, carved about with boar, deer and other game, and symbols representing summer. It is covered in moss, and no-one has ever seen a hint of any magic from it.

===The Vallorn of Hercynia===
The vallorn of Hercynia is often characterized as "malicious" or "patient." It does not seem to be as vibrant as the vallorn in more southerly climes, and is certainly not as aggressive as the vallorns of [[Brocéliande]] or [[Liathaven]]. Still, while incursions from vallornspawn are few and far between, they are especially vicious when they do come. Over the centuries, it has been beaten back to a dark heart in eastern [[#Deer's Folly|Deer's Folly]] but efforts to dislodge it entirely have failed.

==Regions==
===Northpines===
The mountains of north-west Hercynia are home to several mines that have been worked since before there was an Empire. The slopes of the mountains are thick with ancient pine trees, rich in [[Materials#Ambergelt|Ambergelt]] and [[Materials#Dragonbone|Dragonbone]]. This was the easiest region to clear of Vallorn influence during the slow war of attrition to regain Hercynia, and there have been no major incursions of vallornspawn into the mountains in centuries. This region is famously where Myfanwy (one of the [[Navarr History|earliest companions]] of the First Empress) was born, and where she was called to help mediate a dispute between rival steadings during the unsuccessful first attempt to bring the [[Urizen_history#Joining the Empire|Urizen]] into the Empire. Some conspirators claim that had Myfanwy made the trip with the First Empress, the Urizen could have been convinced to join the Empire early.

Several secluded passes through the mountains into Skarsind served as trade routes prior to the invasion of the Thule. In later years they were used to launch scouting missions into the barbarian-held territory. The steadings of the region are considered a little odd by many Navarr, and occasionally accused of having more in common with the Winterfolk than with their own cousins. There may be a little truth to this - with the loss of the Glen of Shadows to the barbarians, Northpines was cut off from the rest of Hercynia - and indeed the Empire - by a combination of barbarians and the vallorn-infested region of [[#Deer's Folly|Deer's Folly]] to the south. 
'''Keywords:''' Forested, Hilly

===The Glen of Shadows===
The steading of [[#Treji|Treji]] still stands here, but has been extensively damaged by the battle between the Imperial orcs and the barbarian occupiers. The artisans who made their home here combined the working of wood and metal to make weapons and armour for the Thorns of Hercynia and to support their Winterfolk allies. The Glen of Shadows was especially known for the fine magical bows and spears, easily matching the more workmanlike produce of the Wintermark runesmiths.

The famous [[Shadowglyn Distillery]] is located here on the lower slopes of the Northpines. The once famous distillery produced some of the best drinks in the Empire until it was destroyed in a pitched battle between the Thule and Navarr defenders, during fighting in the territory. Production has recently restarted at the site, under the auspices of Wern Taur Thorntarry.

'''Keywords:''' Forested

===Deer's Folly===
Another mountainous area of Hercynia, but one that has fared less well than Northpines. While the mountains to the west create a natural barrier against the worst effects of the vallorn, a poisonous miasma lies over much of the region. The noxious atmosphere pools in valleys and spreads through the forest from the vallorn of Hercynia, wrapped tight around the ruins of an ancient Terunael city in the east. There are only a handful of steadings in Deer's Folly and they are all built in the western mountains - no steading established closer to the vallorn heart has survived more than a decade before it is overrun. The Winterfolk Queen Ilsin is believed to have met her end here at the hands of the Vallornspawn - some scholars point to the fact that her [[Glory's Call|famous standard]] bore a white stag and suggest it is more than coincidence the region is known as "Deer's Folly" - but if it had a name before this it is known only to historians. ('''OOC Note:''' This region is not considered to be in Imperial hands. It cannot be reclaimed until the power of the vallorn is broken.) 
'''Keywords:''' Forested, Hilly, Vallorn

===Old Ranging===
The forests of Old Ranging are carefully cultivated by the inhabitants of the Steadings here. The woods are rich with animal life, and many hunters make a good living providing pelts, furs and fine meats to merchants and traders who travel across the Empire. Likewise, the manystreams and shallow rivers are rich with an impressie variety of fish and a number of steadings here raise domesticated deer and even goats whose meat is very much in demand. There are several well-established trade routs from Old Ranging to [[Hahnmark#Kalpaheim|Kalapheim]] and Winterfolk merchants are a common sight in the Summer months. It has not always been this way of course - there are several battlefields here that date back to pre-Imperial times when the ancestors of the modern Winterfolk, spurred on by their [[Wintermark_history|successes against the trolls]] attempted to conquer Hercynia. The tragic tale of Queen Ilsin is sometimes told by both Navarr and Winterfolk, recounting how her army was lead through Old Ranging by the clever Navarr and tricked into marching into Deer's Folly where the 'thousand strong army' was devoured by the Vallorn. The tale is probably an exaggeration but seems to have at least some basis in truth. It marked the last major conflict between the Navarr and the Winterfolk in Hercynia, although to this day Suaq explorers make occasional forays into Old Ranging seeking for some sign of Queen Ilsin's personal standard ''Winter Fury'' which is believed to be a [[Glory's Call|potent artefact]].

In recent years, as the heart of the Vallorn of Hercynia has become more restive, there has been an increase in vallornspawn attacks on hunting parties along the northern borders - but never in great numbers, and the attacks have been dealt with swiftly and effectively by vigilant Thorns. 
'''Keywords:''' Forested

===Summersend===
The forests of Summersend are sparse, giving way to the plains of [[Skarsind#Gildenheim|Gildenheim]] to the north. The [[#The Gate of Summer|Gate of Summer]] is found here, along with several other well-explored Terunael ruins. Several steadings are built on a foundation of old Terunael structures, and it is from here that the push to drive back the Vallorn is overseen. There are several old battlefields here, most dating back to pre-Imperial times and to attempts by the Vard ancestors of the [[Varushka|Varushkans]] to conquer Hercynia. Most of these battlefields have long since been forgotten but one - '''Mourning Hollow''' on the very south-eastern borders - is avoided to this day as [[Rubies on the Snow|it is said to be haunted]] by the unquiet spirits of dead Vard and Navarr warriors due to the result of a forgotten curse or betrayal.

In addition to the usual occasional incursions from the vallorn of Hercynia, there have been several skirmishes with the orcs both from Skarsind and from the Glen of Shadows to the north-west. The fortified steadings here served as a base of operations for forays into Skarsind during the recent war, and a number of Wintermark refugees were helped to safe havens in [[Hahnmark]] to the south west.

The [[#Heartwood of the Great Vale|Heartwood of the Great Vale]] is in northern Summersend, right on the edge of the [[#The Glen of Shadows|Glen of Shadows]]. 
'''Keywords:''' Forested

[[Category:Navarr]]
[[Category:Gazetteer]]

Rubies on the Snow

2016-02-23T10:56:50Z

Daisy:

To the tune of Hana Ava Baba Not. Lyrics JR/music trad.

'''RECORDING of this song''' : [[Media:rubies-on-the-snow.mp3]]

<ic>This is thought to be a very old song, which has resurfaced recently. Some bards of Varushka and Navarr have said it appeared in their dreams, but nobody can recall when or where they learnt it...</ic>

<song>

Thick fell the snows on Navaar
Far we had come, following the battle drum
And their blood fell like rubies on the snow

Swift were the blades of the Vard
Hard iron wrought; and like heroes bold we fought
And the blood fell like rubies on the snow

'''Chorus:'''
''Snow falls thick in the hollow
''Covering the earth, and war's bloody stain
''Schlachta came here to conquer
''Now here we ever must remain''

Our foes heard an Ushkan Mage call
All was not lost if they'd pay his bloody cost
Where the blood fell like rubies on the snow.

Deals struck in darkness and cold
Gold he was paid, darkest promises were made
And our blood fell like rubies on the snow

Chorus

Though we fought hard and fought long
Strong was the spell and our foes they used it well
And our blood fell like rubies in the snow

Their victory did not last
Fast they were slain, only to rise up again
Where our blood fell like rubies on the snow

Chorus

Bury my bones where I fell
Tell to my vale all the sorrows of my tale
How our blood fell like rubies on the snow

There lies a heart hard as a stone
Bone guards it still in the Mourning Hollow's chill
Where the blood fell like rubies on the snow

</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Music]]

File:Rubies-on-the-snow.mp3

2016-02-23T10:56:25Z

Daisy: Sung by members of the Volchitrava Stzena player group.

Sung by members of the Volchitrava Stzena player group.

Rubies on the Snow

2016-02-23T10:49:47Z

Daisy: Created page with "To the tune of Hana Ava Baba Not. Lyrics JR/music trad. '''RECORDING of this song''' : Media:rubies-on-the-snow.m4a <ic>This is thought to be a very old song, which has ..."

To the tune of Hana Ava Baba Not. Lyrics JR/music trad.

'''RECORDING of this song''' : [[Media:rubies-on-the-snow.m4a]]

<ic>This is thought to be a very old song, which has resurfaced recently. Some bards of Varushka and Navarr have said it appeared in their dreams, but nobody can recall when or where they learnt it...</ic>

<song>

Thick fell the snows on Navaar
Far we had come, following the battle drum
And their blood fell like rubies on the snow

Swift were the blades of the Vard
Hard iron wrought; and like heroes bold we fought
And the blood fell like rubies on the snow

'''Chorus:'''
''Snow falls thick in the hollow
''Covering the earth, and war's bloody stain
''Schlachta came here to conquer
''Now here we ever must remain''

Our foes heard an Ushkan Mage call
All was not lost if they'd pay his bloody cost
Where the blood fell like rubies on the snow.

Deals struck in darkness and cold
Gold he was paid, darkest promises were made
And our blood fell like rubies on the snow

Chorus

Though we fought hard and fought long
Strong was the spell and our foes they used it well
And our blood fell like rubies in the snow

Their victory did not last
Fast they were slain, only to rise up again
Where our blood fell like rubies on the snow

Chorus

Bury my bones where I fell
Tell to my vale all the sorrows of my tale
How our blood fell like rubies on the snow

There lies a heart hard as a stone
Bone guards it still in the Mourning Hollow's chill
Where the blood fell like rubies on the snow

</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Music]]

Varushka music

2016-02-23T10:45:57Z

Daisy: /* Other Songs & Poems (unsorted) */

==The Music of Varushka==

===Style summary===
Varushkan music is rich and full-bodied, following a long tradition of being used to keep both the cold and the horrors outside at bay. Choral singing, accordions, violins and hurdy-gurdies all find their place with the Varushkan love of discords resolving into rich harmony; the normally stoic people find an outlet for grief, love and joy in their music that they would find hard to express in any other way. A vein of melancholy runs through their music - minor keys are more common than major.

Varushka draws on the real world traditions of Eastern European and Balkan music, in particular Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian songs and Yiddish or klezmer instrumental music.

===Commonly known songs===
* [[Marching song]] This simple melody has echoed wherever the Varushkan army has fought - the night before battle, on the way to the battlefield and accompanying them home in victory or defeat. Often led by one singer with everyone joining in the chorus.
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] A popular song often sung while warding villages and camps at dusk.
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] The toasting tradition in Varushka is a huge part of their culture. Here is a famous musical toast.
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] A cautionary poem for monster hunters, often recited rhythmically and dynamically, and accompanied by stamping feet and clapping.
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Hearth and Home]] - nostalgic travelling song, easy
* [[Song to Keep the Dark Away]] - a.k.a. the oompah song
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Feast of the Loom]] - most vales have a version of a song that is sung at the [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Varushka_culture_and_customs#The_Feast_of_the_Loom Feast of the Loom]. Here is one version.

====A musical tradition====
Toasting is very common in Varushkan culture. Pretty much every major event - weddings, funerals, births, victories, defeats, change of leadership, ceremonies of adulthood - will lead to both spoken and sung toasts. A typical Varushkan toasting song has very few words: the old-fashioned songs use "mravalzhamier" meaning 'good health' although others are sung to similar sentiments, or sometimes the name of the person being toasted or simply "Varushka!". Toasting Songs often start slowly and speed up and can be sung in full harmony or led by one singer. Some examples: [[Mravalzhamier]]s and [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]], or use [[Here's A Health to the Company]] which is a drinking song known throughout the Empire.

Many Varushkan towns and villages employ a [[Stzena]], a band of musicians who perform at civic functions, local events and public ceremonies. Historically, these were sentries who kept night vigils and raised the alarm in case of attack from monster, barbarians and raiders by blowing on trumpets and beating drums. As the [[wardens]] grew in strength and reach, the [[Stzena]] turned their skills to music and served their community in a different way, but some still take their secondary role as watchmen very seriously.

====One for the kids====
*[[The North wind doth blow]]

===Further examples===

====Warding Songs====
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] - easy call and response song (3 part harmony optional)
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Varushkan Warding Song]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Footprints]] - medium Varushkan funeral song about [[Courage]] and the [[The_Labyrinth_of_Ages_and_the_Paragons_and_Exemplars|Labyrinth.]]
* [[Here's To Varushka]] - rousing song for wakes.

====Drinking Songs====
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] - some toasting songs
* [[Mravalzhamier]] - some more toasting songs
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Ballad of the Schlacta]] - easy and fun drinking song

====War Songs====
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[Brave Varushka Forth]]
* [[Marching song]] - medium difficulty

====Other Songs & Poems (unsorted)====
* [[Rubies on the Snow]]
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] - poem about a monster
* [[Beneath the Skin]]
* [[The Walker of the Snow]]
* [[The Sovereign]]- haunting ballad
*[[Hurry, Hunter]]
*[[Build The Fires High]]
*[[Dos Vidanya]]
*[[If Varushka Wills]]
*[[Mother Varushka]]
*[[All The Ushka]]
*[[Keep the Fires Burning]]
*[[Lord of Winter]]
*[[Child of the Mountain]]
*[[The Brewer's Lesson]]

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Violins, accordions, reeded woodwind, hammered dulcimer if you've got one! Music is drawn from Eastern European gypsy music, klezmer, or any fast tunes written in a klezmer scale. [http://www.manchesterklezmer.org/pages_history_musicology/what_is_klezmer_scales.html More info on klezmer scales.]

[[Varushkan rhythms]] - and how to do them

====Other performance traditions====
* Dancing, set dances like ceilidh circle dances but typically dancers will come out of the line to do their own thing before rejoining the set moves. Avoid Cossack dancing!

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* Avoid cliched Russian tunes like the Tetris theme music (good though it is!)
* Start very slow and speed up!

===Our sources===
Georgian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Moravian and Bulgarian folk as well as traditional Russian songs. Artists: Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir; Georgian Voices; Northern Harmony, Kitka, [www.youtube.com/user/yaleslavicchorus Yale Slavic Chorus]

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGBBJ0aRTg&list=PL81CD62F1C0F398B1&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]

Varushka music

2016-02-23T10:45:21Z

Daisy: /* Other Songs & Poems (unsorted) */

==The Music of Varushka==

===Style summary===
Varushkan music is rich and full-bodied, following a long tradition of being used to keep both the cold and the horrors outside at bay. Choral singing, accordions, violins and hurdy-gurdies all find their place with the Varushkan love of discords resolving into rich harmony; the normally stoic people find an outlet for grief, love and joy in their music that they would find hard to express in any other way. A vein of melancholy runs through their music - minor keys are more common than major.

Varushka draws on the real world traditions of Eastern European and Balkan music, in particular Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian songs and Yiddish or klezmer instrumental music.

===Commonly known songs===
* [[Marching song]] This simple melody has echoed wherever the Varushkan army has fought - the night before battle, on the way to the battlefield and accompanying them home in victory or defeat. Often led by one singer with everyone joining in the chorus.
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] A popular song often sung while warding villages and camps at dusk.
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] The toasting tradition in Varushka is a huge part of their culture. Here is a famous musical toast.
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] A cautionary poem for monster hunters, often recited rhythmically and dynamically, and accompanied by stamping feet and clapping.
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Hearth and Home]] - nostalgic travelling song, easy
* [[Song to Keep the Dark Away]] - a.k.a. the oompah song
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Feast of the Loom]] - most vales have a version of a song that is sung at the [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Varushka_culture_and_customs#The_Feast_of_the_Loom Feast of the Loom]. Here is one version.

====A musical tradition====
Toasting is very common in Varushkan culture. Pretty much every major event - weddings, funerals, births, victories, defeats, change of leadership, ceremonies of adulthood - will lead to both spoken and sung toasts. A typical Varushkan toasting song has very few words: the old-fashioned songs use "mravalzhamier" meaning 'good health' although others are sung to similar sentiments, or sometimes the name of the person being toasted or simply "Varushka!". Toasting Songs often start slowly and speed up and can be sung in full harmony or led by one singer. Some examples: [[Mravalzhamier]]s and [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]], or use [[Here's A Health to the Company]] which is a drinking song known throughout the Empire.

Many Varushkan towns and villages employ a [[Stzena]], a band of musicians who perform at civic functions, local events and public ceremonies. Historically, these were sentries who kept night vigils and raised the alarm in case of attack from monster, barbarians and raiders by blowing on trumpets and beating drums. As the [[wardens]] grew in strength and reach, the [[Stzena]] turned their skills to music and served their community in a different way, but some still take their secondary role as watchmen very seriously.

====One for the kids====
*[[The North wind doth blow]]

===Further examples===

====Warding Songs====
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] - easy call and response song (3 part harmony optional)
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Varushkan Warding Song]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Footprints]] - medium Varushkan funeral song about [[Courage]] and the [[The_Labyrinth_of_Ages_and_the_Paragons_and_Exemplars|Labyrinth.]]
* [[Here's To Varushka]] - rousing song for wakes.

====Drinking Songs====
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] - some toasting songs
* [[Mravalzhamier]] - some more toasting songs
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Ballad of the Schlacta]] - easy and fun drinking song

====War Songs====
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[Brave Varushka Forth]]
* [[Marching song]] - medium difficulty

====Other Songs & Poems (unsorted)====
* *[[Rubies on the Snow]]
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] - poem about a monster
* [[Beneath the Skin]]
* [[The Walker of the Snow]]
* [[The Sovereign]]- haunting ballad
*[[Hurry, Hunter]]
*[[Build The Fires High]]
*[[Dos Vidanya]]
*[[If Varushka Wills]]
*[[Mother Varushka]]
*[[All The Ushka]]
*[[Keep the Fires Burning]]
*[[Lord of Winter]]
*[[Child of the Mountain]]
*[[The Brewer's Lesson]]

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Violins, accordions, reeded woodwind, hammered dulcimer if you've got one! Music is drawn from Eastern European gypsy music, klezmer, or any fast tunes written in a klezmer scale. [http://www.manchesterklezmer.org/pages_history_musicology/what_is_klezmer_scales.html More info on klezmer scales.]

[[Varushkan rhythms]] - and how to do them

====Other performance traditions====
* Dancing, set dances like ceilidh circle dances but typically dancers will come out of the line to do their own thing before rejoining the set moves. Avoid Cossack dancing!

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* Avoid cliched Russian tunes like the Tetris theme music (good though it is!)
* Start very slow and speed up!

===Our sources===
Georgian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Moravian and Bulgarian folk as well as traditional Russian songs. Artists: Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir; Georgian Voices; Northern Harmony, Kitka, [www.youtube.com/user/yaleslavicchorus Yale Slavic Chorus]

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGBBJ0aRTg&list=PL81CD62F1C0F398B1&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]

Varushka music

2016-01-07T10:06:22Z

Daisy: /* Commonly known songs */

==The Music of Varushka==

===Style summary===
Varushkan music is rich and full-bodied, following a long tradition of being used to keep both the cold and the horrors outside at bay. Choral singing, accordions, violins and hurdy-gurdies all find their place with the Varushkan love of discords resolving into rich harmony; the normally stoic people find an outlet for grief, love and joy in their music that they would find hard to express in any other way. A vein of melancholy runs through their music - minor keys are more common than major.

Varushka draws on the real world traditions of Eastern European and Balkan music, in particular Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian songs and Yiddish or klezmer instrumental music.

===Commonly known songs===
* [[Marching song]] This simple melody has echoed wherever the Varushkan army has fought - the night before battle, on the way to the battlefield and accompanying them home in victory or defeat. Often led by one singer with everyone joining in the chorus.
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] A popular song often sung while warding villages and camps at dusk.
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] The toasting tradition in Varushka is a huge part of their culture. Here is a famous musical toast.
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] A cautionary poem for monster hunters, often recited rhythmically and dynamically, and accompanied by stamping feet and clapping.
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Hearth and Home]] - nostalgic travelling song, easy
* [[Song to Keep the Dark Away]] - a.k.a. the oompah song
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Feast of the Loom]] - most vales have a version of a song that is sung at the [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Varushka_culture_and_customs#The_Feast_of_the_Loom Feast of the Loom]. Here is one version.

====A musical tradition====
Toasting is very common in Varushkan culture. Pretty much every major event - weddings, funerals, births, victories, defeats, change of leadership, ceremonies of adulthood - will lead to both spoken and sung toasts. A typical Varushkan toasting song has very few words: the old-fashioned songs use "mravalzhamier" meaning 'good health' although others are sung to similar sentiments, or sometimes the name of the person being toasted or simply "Varushka!". Toasting Songs often start slowly and speed up and can be sung in full harmony or led by one singer. Some examples: [[Mravalzhamier]]s and [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]], or use [[Here's A Health to the Company]] which is a drinking song known throughout the Empire.

Many Varushkan towns and villages employ a [[Stzena]], a band of musicians who perform at civic functions, local events and public ceremonies. Historically, these were sentries who kept night vigils and raised the alarm in case of attack from monster, barbarians and raiders by blowing on trumpets and beating drums. As the [[wardens]] grew in strength and reach, the [[Stzena]] turned their skills to music and served their community in a different way, but some still take their secondary role as watchmen very seriously.

====One for the kids====
*[[The North wind doth blow]]

===Further examples===

====Warding Songs====
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] - easy call and response song (3 part harmony optional)
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Varushkan Warding Song]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Footprints]] - medium Varushkan funeral song about [[Courage]] and the [[The_Labyrinth_of_Ages_and_the_Paragons_and_Exemplars|Labyrinth.]]
* [[Here's To Varushka]] - rousing song for wakes.

====Drinking Songs====
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] - some toasting songs
* [[Mravalzhamier]] - some more toasting songs
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Ballad of the Schlacta]] - easy and fun drinking song

====War Songs====
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[Brave Varushka Forth]]
* [[Marching song]] - medium difficulty

====Other Songs & Poems (unsorted)====
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] - poem about a monster
* [[Beneath the Skin]]
* [[The Walker of the Snow]]
* [[The Sovereign]]- haunting ballad
*[[Hurry, Hunter]]
*[[Build The Fires High]]
*[[Dos Vidanya]]
*[[If Varushka Wills]]
*[[Mother Varushka]]
*[[All The Ushka]]
*[[Keep the Fires Burning]]
*[[Lord of Winter]]
*[[Child of the Mountain]]
*[[The Brewer's Lesson]]

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Violins, accordions, reeded woodwind, hammered dulcimer if you've got one! Music is drawn from Eastern European gypsy music, klezmer, or any fast tunes written in a klezmer scale. [http://www.manchesterklezmer.org/pages_history_musicology/what_is_klezmer_scales.html More info on klezmer scales.]

[[Varushkan rhythms]] - and how to do them

====Other performance traditions====
* Dancing, set dances like ceilidh circle dances but typically dancers will come out of the line to do their own thing before rejoining the set moves. Avoid Cossack dancing!

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* Avoid cliched Russian tunes like the Tetris theme music (good though it is!)
* Start very slow and speed up!

===Our sources===
Georgian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Moravian and Bulgarian folk as well as traditional Russian songs. Artists: Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir; Georgian Voices; Northern Harmony, Kitka, [www.youtube.com/user/yaleslavicchorus Yale Slavic Chorus]

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGBBJ0aRTg&list=PL81CD62F1C0F398B1&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]

Day Song and Night Song

2016-01-07T10:02:54Z

Daisy: /* Helper files */ correcting links

Words by Jude. Arrangement by Daisy. Original tunes are [http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=334&c=44 Kis kacsa fürdik] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtKTkSMO5Us Móðir mín í kví, kví]

===Helper files===
You can source a full score IC. Here are some recordings to help you learn.

Day Song - melody: [[File:Day-song-melody.mp3]]

Night Song - melody:[[File:Night-song-melody.mp3]]

Midi file of all harmonies: [[File:Day-night.mid]] (it plays very slowly so you can pick out the harmony lines)

===Day Song===
<song>
Stitching and spinning
Carding and weaving
From light of morning
On till the evening
Forge fires are burning
Bellows are blowing
Mill-wheel is turning
Work never slowing
</song>

===Night Song===
<song>
When the dark is falling
When the sun is setting low
When the evening skies are burning
Leave them all and dance with meWhen the evening skies are burning
Leave them all and dance with me

Listen to me calling
Now the moonlight's on the snow
When the midnight stars are turning
Leave them all and dance with me
When the midnight stars are turning
Leave them all and dance with me
</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Music]]

File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png

2015-05-07T10:58:03Z

Daisy: Daisy uploaded a new version of "File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png": Updated a fort on this image

OOC tactical map showing military knowledge at end of Winter 378YE.

Map - Coloured Territories

2015-05-07T10:25:47Z

Daisy: adding campaign map

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-watercolour-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-watercolour.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, watercolour style]]

[[File:Map-tactical-ic-pencil-small.jpg|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/maps/Map-tactical-ic-pencil.png|caption=Territories of the Empire, pencil crayon style]]

In scale, this map is around 900 miles north to south.

[[File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|640x452px|center|link=http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/6/6a/Map-tactical2-y3e1.png|caption=Campaign map at end of Winter 378YE, ooc style]]

''Maps by Daisy Abbott.''

[[Category:Maps]]

File:Map-tactical2-y3e1.png

2015-05-07T10:21:16Z

Daisy: OOC tactical map showing military knowledge at end of Winter 378YE.

OOC tactical map showing military knowledge at end of Winter 378YE.

Uncle Vyig

2015-05-03T07:02:26Z

Daisy: Adding recording

<ic>This song is well known in [[The_League_territories#Temeschwar|Temeschwar]], the Varushkan city that joined The League. It’s about [[vyig|organised crime]], which was once endemic there, and was referred to obliquely as “Uncle Vyig” (“Uncle Vyig had his hands in my pockets”, etc). The song is about how crime takes a cut of everything. It a fun song about terrible things, and is also popular as a song to sing with children in [[Varushka]].</ic>

Words by Chris Edwards, tune by Daisy Abbott.

Recording (rough): [https://www.dropbox.com/s/wrjv1x3supvxyag/Uncle-vyig.mp3?dl=0 here]

More verses coming soon. Strongly encouraged to make up your own verses, personalising any family feuds etc that are happening on the field.

<song>
''(sung fairly slow and deep before each verse)''
When Uncle Vyig comes to dinner...

He takes a bite from every onion
Puts his spoon right in your soup
And all the poultry that he eats
Could fill a chicken coop!

When Uncle Vyig comes to dinner...

He goes through all your clothing
And borrows just one boot
He helps himself to gloves and hats
And the socks right off your foot!

When Uncle Vyig comes to dinner...

He sits right by the fire
And leaves you all to freeze
His bones are scrawny, thin and cold
But he shares with you his sneeze! (ATCHOO!)
</song>

[[Category:League Music]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The League]]

Feast of the Loom

2015-03-25T09:37:20Z

Daisy: adding recordings

Original tune Hallow's Eve by Chris Hoban. Words adapted by Daisy Abbott and Jude Reid.

Rehearsal recording of the Feast of the Loom song [https://www.dropbox.com/s/2b2wslh9g7frscr/loom-full.mp3?dl=0 here] (Varushkan harmony version).

Recording with the chorus only [https://www.dropbox.com/s/il2lf3r71uxt38l/loom-chorus.mp3?dl=0 here]

<song>
'''Song for the Feast of the Loom'''

Chorus:
''Go light the lantern at your door,''
''to honour those who've gone before''
''The worlds that part us now are near,''
''the Loom will weave another year''

The westering sun is pale and wan,
the days are dark, the nights are long,
A chill is in the evening air,
and wind stirs in the branches bare

(Chorus)

Sweep out the hearth and clear the grate
and bid folk welcome at your gate,
when darkness comes we'll bar the door,
and feast till we can eat no more

(Chorus)

We'll tell the tales of heroes brave,
and those we loved lost to the grave
The hearth fires that tonight we burn,
will light the Way for their return,

(Chorus)

Now round the bonfires lightly tread
To welcome in the year ahead
The seasons turn through frost and dew
Until the year is born anew
</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Music]]

Feast of the Loom

2015-03-24T12:03:32Z

Daisy:

Original tune Hallow's Eve by Chris Hoban. Words adapted by Daisy Abbott and Jude Reid.

Recording coming soon!

<song>
'''Song for the Feast of the Loom'''

Chorus:
''Go light the lantern at your door,''
''to honour those who've gone before''
''The worlds that part us now are near,''
''the Loom will weave another year''

The westering sun is pale and wan,
the days are dark, the nights are long,
A chill is in the evening air,
and wind stirs in the branches bare

(Chorus)

Sweep out the hearth and clear the grate
and bid folk welcome at your gate,
when darkness comes we'll bar the door,
and feast till we can eat no more

(Chorus)

We'll tell the tales of heroes brave,
and those we loved lost to the grave
The hearth fires that tonight we burn,
will light the Way for their return,

(Chorus)

Now round the bonfires lightly tread
To welcome in the year ahead
The seasons turn through frost and dew
Until the year is born anew
</song>

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Music]]

Varushka culture and customs

2015-03-23T11:16:45Z

Daisy: /* The Feast of the Loom */ song link

==Family==
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A respect for family is central to Varushkan culture. Varushkans commonly use familial titles to show respect and friendship. Friends may call each other Cousin, or even Brother or Sister if they are particularly close. Calling someone Uncle or Aunt indicates a significant degree of respect and acknowledges someone’s seniority and authority while Grandfather or Grandmother is usually used for the oldest and most respected members of the community. Individuals honoured in this way are usually treated just like any other family member.

Old age commands respect in Varushka. Older relatives who pass their wisdom and experience down to the younger generations are treasured. To the Varushkans, long years both grant and demonstrate wisdom. Fools die young, and their strength does not save them. Varushkan folklore includes countless stories where the young hero gets into trouble after ignoring the advice of their elders.

Often this tradition of the older generation passing their wisdom to the younger is demonstrated in the form of an apprenticeship. Rarely formalised, it is especially common with magicians and priests. An older individual takes a younger one "under their wing" and imparts their wisdom while engaging in day-to-day activities. The younger individual, for their part, helps the older in any number of ways, often serving as an assistant or conversational foil, for example.

==Parting==
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Varushkans have a tradition of gift giving before and after a significant journey. When a Varushkan leaves their family for the first time, there is usually a ceremony to mark the occasion, a celebration that culminates with one or more gifts. Travellers sometimes do not come back, or come back changed, so when family return from such travels, there is a second celebration where the returning traveller is expected to give gifts in their turn. Traditionally the gifts given to a departing family member are usually practical, while gifts given by the returning family member are usually decorative mementos of the traveller's journey.

The Varushkan people cannot afford to suffer the foolish or indulge the lazy for long. The slothful, the ignorant, the arrogant and the petty criminal – anyone whose presence is no longer tolerable – receives an unlooked for parting ceremony, receiving the traditional departure gifts of a travelling cloak, a sack, a meal of bread and cheese, and a stout staff before effectively being exiled. Such individuals either learn harsh lessons in self-sufficiency or die in the wilderness between vales. The luckiest fall in with a group of travelling [[Navarr]], while others end up joining a new community, become bandits or leave Varushka forever. While some hold grudges against the vales that threw them out, those who learn from their experiences and become better people feature strongly in Varushkan folklore.

One particular parting tradition is performed on the eve or the morning of battle, or before an especially long or perilous mission. Most often a spouse or lover, but sometimes a close friend or parent, spends time braiding the hair of the loved-one who is leaving into an intricate weave, working charms of protection in as they go. The hair is not untied until they are together again. Those without long hair are often ceremonially presented with a hank of braided animal hair, or knotted yarn, which will be carried until the pair are reunited and untie it together. In much of Varushka this is also performed for the beloved dead as they set off on their last journey - some folk-takes refer to the shame of going from this life with loose hair and thus unloved.

==Hospitality==
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Anyone who lives in Varushka for long learns to be naturally suspicious of strangers. The land has many dangers and some can take a pleasing form if they choose to. Despite this they traditionally offer a warm welcome to any who stay after nightfall. Varushkans rarely let their guard down around strangers, but they know that treating them well is the best way to ensure prosperity and avert danger.

Treating a stranger well is the first step to turning them into an ally, and encourages them to respond in kind – pitching in with the cleaning, the cooking and so on. More importantly, treating a disguised [[Varushkan Monsters|monster]] well traps them in the role of well-behaved guest. As long as they are not mistreated, they are bound by the [[Varushka Hearth Magic#Rules|rules]] of hospitality, and they cannot harm anyone. There are several cautionary tales of Varushkans who forget the importance of these customs and bring terrible suffering down on themselves and their families.

Bringing your own food and drink and sharing it with your hosts is a cultural expectation as well as common courtesy. Visitors who break the traditions of hospitality by being rude or taking their hosts for granted may be offered a drink or a meal “for the road”. This phrase is a pointed warning that your behaviour is offending your hosts and the visitor who does not mend their ways faces immediate ejection. Depending on the circumstances a wise visitor might decline the offer and ask instead for a bed for the night. A foolish visitor who accepts the offer or carries on causing offence faces expulsion into the dark night.

==Celebration==
Day is the time for hard work. Celebrating before the sun touches the treetops implies indolence and invites the land to punish you accordingly. Few celebrations are ever held during daylight and as a result many Varushkans appear dour and parsimonious at first. In fact, they reserve their merrymaking for nightfall when feasts, drinking, dancing, [[Varushka_Music#A_musical_tradition|toasting]], storytelling and singing abound. Varushkans love dark bread and honey, and many meals start or end with it. Honey is also used to brew mead or create sweets, and bees are a powerful symbol of [[Prosperity]], wealth and the family. [[Stzena]] are part- or full-time musicians employed by many towns and villages to play and compose music for local celebrations.

Festivals and feasts are a common feature of Varushkan life; among the most widespread observations is the '''Feast of the Loom'''.

===The Feast of the Loom===
In the remote and isolated vales of Varushka, superstitions and traditions that date from the earliest days of the Imperial Faith -and perhaps before - persist in hearth magics and festivals. One such tradition is the Feast of the Loom, a traditional winter celebration that traditionally begins at dusk on the first night of the Winter Solstice, when Varushkans gather around the hearth to share food, drink, songs and stories (in particular, [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Feast_of_the_Loom this song] ). Any [[Stzena]] present often begin the proceedings by performing, though their role throughout the night is more to encourage the participation of others than to provide continual entertainment themselves.

The Loom after which the festival is named comes from one of the traditional tales told at this festival. Many vales have their own version, which tells of three sisters whose children wander too far from their house and lose themselves in the woods. One sister tries to draw them back by lighting fires on the edge of the forest, one makes noise with bells, rattles and signing, but only when the third sister brings her loom, and weaves the children's names into cloth with scraps of their clothes and hair do the children remember their familes and return home. Taken literally it is told as a children's story to warn against the dangers of straying into the dark forests; allegorically the children are thought to represent to lost souls in the Labyrinth. At this time of year, some Varushkans still cling to the primitive superstition that the labyrinth is passing closest to the mortal realm and that songs and tales told of the departed will be heard by the souls of the Virtuous dead, and hasten their rebirth. It is traditional in some vales for a simple loom to be hung near the Hearth, where are all welcome to weave scraps of ribbon, cloth or hair into a rug or blanket over the course of the Festival.


==Funerals==
A funeral is almost always a sombre occasion in Varushka. The majority of funerals take place during the day, and are restrained affairs marked by eulogies spoken by the closest friends and familes of the dead and a blessing from a priest. The body is then buried in a graveyard or corpse garden, wrapped in a shroud traditionally sewn together out of the sheets and blankets from the last bed they slept in before death. Graves are usually dug by the closest relatives of the deceased, rather than by any kind of professional.

After sunset, the tenor of the funeral changes. It is traditional to have a celebratory wake once the sun has set, during which an extra place is set for the dead. It is common for a Varushkan to put an amount of money aside with a trusted friend or a wise one to pay for the wake. The wake often lasts until sunrise, and includes the reading of the will and the distribution of the deceased's property wherever possible.

Varushkans remain buried for around five years, after which their bones are dug up and they are reinterred in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb which is much easier to protect than a sprawling cemetery. Ossuaries often have underground catacombs, and a comparatively small building can serve the needs of an entire vale.

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Feast of the Loom

2015-03-23T11:15:11Z

Daisy: Created page with "Tune trad. Hallow's Eve. Words adapted by Daisy Abbott and Jude Reid. Recording coming soon! <song> '''Song for the Feast of the Loom''' Chorus: ''Go light the lantern at y..."

Tune trad. Hallow's Eve. Words adapted by Daisy Abbott and Jude Reid.

Recording coming soon!

<song>
'''Song for the Feast of the Loom'''

Chorus:
''Go light the lantern at your door,''
''to honour those who've gone before''
''The worlds that part us now are near,''
''the Loom will weave another year''

The westering sun is pale and wan,
the days are dark, the nights are long,
A chill is in the evening air,
and wind stirs in the branches bare

(Chorus)

Sweep out the hearth and clear the grate
and bid folk welcome at your gate,
when darkness comes we'll bar the door,
and feast till we can eat no more

(Chorus)

We'll tell the tales of heroes brave,
and those we loved lost to the grave
The hearth fires that tonight we burn,
will light the Way for their return,

(Chorus)

Now round the bonfires lightly tread
To welcome in the year ahead
The seasons turn through frost and dew
Until the year is born anew
</song>

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[[Category:Music]]

Varushka music

2015-03-23T11:12:31Z

Daisy: fix link

==The Music of Varushka==

===Style summary===
Varushkan music is rich and full-bodied, following a long tradition of being used to keep both the cold and the horrors outside at bay. Choral singing, accordions, violins and hurdy-gurdies all find their place with the Varushkan love of discords resolving into rich harmony; the normally stoic people find an outlet for grief, love and joy in their music that they would find hard to express in any other way. A vein of melancholy runs through their music - minor keys are more common than major.

Varushka draws on the real world traditions of Eastern European and Balkan music, in particular Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian songs and Yiddish or klezmer instrumental music.

===Commonly known songs===
* [[Marching song]] This simple melody has echoed wherever the Varushkan army has fought - the night before battle, on the way to the battlefield and accompanying them home in victory or defeat. Often led by one singer with everyone joining in the chorus.
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] The toasting tradition in Varushka is a huge part of their culture. Here is a famous musical toast.
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] A cautionary poem for monster hunters, often recited rhythmically and dynamically, and accompanied by stamping feet and clapping.
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Hearth and Home]] - nostalgic travelling song, easy
* [[Song to Keep the Dark Away]] - a.k.a. the oompah song
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Feast of the Loom]] - most vales have a version of a song that is sung at the [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Varushka_culture_and_customs#The_Feast_of_the_Loom Feast of the Loom]. Here is one version.

====A musical tradition====
Toasting is very common in Varushkan culture. Pretty much every major event - weddings, funerals, births, victories, defeats, change of leadership, ceremonies of adulthood - will lead to both spoken and sung toasts. A typical Varushkan toasting song has very few words: the old-fashioned songs use "mravalzhamier" meaning 'good health' although others are sung to similar sentiments, or sometimes the name of the person being toasted or simply "Varushka!". Toasting Songs often start slowly and speed up and can be sung in full harmony or led by one singer. Some examples: [[Mravalzhamier]]s and [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]], or use [[Here's A Health to the Company]] which is a drinking song known throughout the Empire.

Many Varushkan towns and villages employ a [[Stzena]], a band of musicians who perform at civic functions, local events and public ceremonies. Historically, these were sentries who kept night vigils and raised the alarm in case of attack from monster, barbarians and raiders by blowing on trumpets and beating drums. As the [[wardens]] grew in strength and reach, the [[Stzena]] turned their skills to music and served their community in a different way, but some still take their secondary role as watchmen very seriously.

====One for the kids====
*[[The North wind doth blow]]

===Further examples===

====Warding Songs====
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] - easy call and response song (3 part harmony optional)
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Varushkan Warding Song]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Footprints]] - medium Varushkan funeral song about [[Courage]] and the [[The_Labyrinth_of_Ages_and_the_Paragons_and_Exemplars|Labyrinth.]]
* [[Here's To Varushka]] - rousing song for wakes.

====Drinking Songs====
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] - some toasting songs
* [[Mravalzhamier]] - some more toasting songs
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Ballad of the Schlacta]] - easy and fun drinking song

====War Songs====
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[Brave Varushka Forth]]
* [[Marching song]] - medium difficulty

====Other Songs & Poems (unsorted)====
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] - poem about a monster
* [[Beneath the Skin]]
* [[The Walker of the Snow]]
* [[The Sovereign]]- haunting ballad
*[[Hurry, Hunter]]
*[[Build The Fires High]]
*[[Dos Vidanya]]
*[[If Varushka Wills]]
*[[Mother Varushka]]
*[[All The Ushka]]
*[[Keep the Fires Burning]]
*[[Lord of Winter]]
*[[Child of the Mountain]]
*[[The Brewer's Lesson]]

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Violins, accordions, reeded woodwind, hammered dulcimer if you've got one! Music is drawn from Eastern European gypsy music, klezmer, or any fast tunes written in a klezmer scale. [http://www.manchesterklezmer.org/pages_history_musicology/what_is_klezmer_scales.html More info on klezmer scales.]

[[Varushkan rhythms]] - and how to do them

====Other performance traditions====
* Dancing, set dances like ceilidh circle dances but typically dancers will come out of the line to do their own thing before rejoining the set moves. Avoid Cossack dancing!

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* Avoid cliched Russian tunes like the Tetris theme music (good though it is!)
* Start very slow and speed up!

===Our sources===
Georgian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Moravian and Bulgarian folk as well as traditional Russian songs. Artists: Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir; Georgian Voices; Northern Harmony, Kitka, [www.youtube.com/user/yaleslavicchorus Yale Slavic Chorus]

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGBBJ0aRTg&list=PL81CD62F1C0F398B1&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Varushka Music]]
[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]

Varushka music

2015-03-23T11:11:08Z

Daisy: /* Commonly known songs */

==The Music of Varushka==

===Style summary===
Varushkan music is rich and full-bodied, following a long tradition of being used to keep both the cold and the horrors outside at bay. Choral singing, accordions, violins and hurdy-gurdies all find their place with the Varushkan love of discords resolving into rich harmony; the normally stoic people find an outlet for grief, love and joy in their music that they would find hard to express in any other way. A vein of melancholy runs through their music - minor keys are more common than major.

Varushka draws on the real world traditions of Eastern European and Balkan music, in particular Georgian, Bulgarian and Russian songs and Yiddish or klezmer instrumental music.

===Commonly known songs===
* [[Marching song]] This simple melody has echoed wherever the Varushkan army has fought - the night before battle, on the way to the battlefield and accompanying them home in victory or defeat. Often led by one singer with everyone joining in the chorus.
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] The toasting tradition in Varushka is a huge part of their culture. Here is a famous musical toast.
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] A cautionary poem for monster hunters, often recited rhythmically and dynamically, and accompanied by stamping feet and clapping.
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Hearth and Home]] - nostalgic travelling song, easy
* [[Song to Keep the Dark Away]] - a.k.a. the oompah song
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Feast of the Loom]] - most vales have a version of a song that is sung at the [Feast of the Loom|http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Varushka_culture_and_customs#The_Feast_of_the_Loom]. Here is one version.

====A musical tradition====
Toasting is very common in Varushkan culture. Pretty much every major event - weddings, funerals, births, victories, defeats, change of leadership, ceremonies of adulthood - will lead to both spoken and sung toasts. A typical Varushkan toasting song has very few words: the old-fashioned songs use "mravalzhamier" meaning 'good health' although others are sung to similar sentiments, or sometimes the name of the person being toasted or simply "Varushka!". Toasting Songs often start slowly and speed up and can be sung in full harmony or led by one singer. Some examples: [[Mravalzhamier]]s and [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]], or use [[Here's A Health to the Company]] which is a drinking song known throughout the Empire.

Many Varushkan towns and villages employ a [[Stzena]], a band of musicians who perform at civic functions, local events and public ceremonies. Historically, these were sentries who kept night vigils and raised the alarm in case of attack from monster, barbarians and raiders by blowing on trumpets and beating drums. As the [[wardens]] grew in strength and reach, the [[Stzena]] turned their skills to music and served their community in a different way, but some still take their secondary role as watchmen very seriously.

====One for the kids====
*[[The North wind doth blow]]

===Further examples===

====Warding Songs====
* [[Wardens of Varushka]] - easy call and response song (3 part harmony optional)
* [[Day Song and Night Song]] - two songs that are commonly used for warding as night falls.
* [[Varushkan Warding Song]]

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Footprints]] - medium Varushkan funeral song about [[Courage]] and the [[The_Labyrinth_of_Ages_and_the_Paragons_and_Exemplars|Labyrinth.]]
* [[Here's To Varushka]] - rousing song for wakes.

====Drinking Songs====
* [[Raise up your glass to Varushka]] - some toasting songs
* [[Mravalzhamier]] - some more toasting songs
* [[One More Vodka]] - drinking song.
* [[Ballad of the Schlacta]] - easy and fun drinking song

====War Songs====
* [[Mother Varushka Goes to War]] A rousing battle song.
* [[Brave Varushka Forth]]
* [[Marching song]] - medium difficulty

====Other Songs & Poems (unsorted)====
* [[The Beast of Volgadurn]] - poem about a monster
* [[Beneath the Skin]]
* [[The Walker of the Snow]]
* [[The Sovereign]]- haunting ballad
*[[Hurry, Hunter]]
*[[Build The Fires High]]
*[[Dos Vidanya]]
*[[If Varushka Wills]]
*[[Mother Varushka]]
*[[All The Ushka]]
*[[Keep the Fires Burning]]
*[[Lord of Winter]]
*[[Child of the Mountain]]
*[[The Brewer's Lesson]]

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Violins, accordions, reeded woodwind, hammered dulcimer if you've got one! Music is drawn from Eastern European gypsy music, klezmer, or any fast tunes written in a klezmer scale. [http://www.manchesterklezmer.org/pages_history_musicology/what_is_klezmer_scales.html More info on klezmer scales.]

[[Varushkan rhythms]] - and how to do them

====Other performance traditions====
* Dancing, set dances like ceilidh circle dances but typically dancers will come out of the line to do their own thing before rejoining the set moves. Avoid Cossack dancing!

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* Avoid cliched Russian tunes like the Tetris theme music (good though it is!)
* Start very slow and speed up!

===Our sources===
Georgian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Moravian and Bulgarian folk as well as traditional Russian songs. Artists: Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir; Georgian Voices; Northern Harmony, Kitka, [www.youtube.com/user/yaleslavicchorus Yale Slavic Chorus]

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfGBBJ0aRTg&list=PL81CD62F1C0F398B1&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Varushka]]

Riqueza's Dream

2015-03-12T13:54:40Z

Daisy:

Words by Jude, original tune Cantem Nadal (trad. Occitane) [http://www.madrigirls.org.uk/audio/2011/10cantem.mp3 here] (arranged by Katy Cooper, sung by Glasgow Madrigirls).

'''RECORDING of this song''' : [[Media:riqueza.mp3]]

==Riqueza's Dream==

<song>
A highborn lady I was born and raised
In Bastion's halls where I spent my days

'''Chorus:'''
My sisters, come along with me, a Highguard slave I'll not be
My sisters, come along with me, a Highguard slave I'll not be

As I lay dreaming in the dead of night
The sky was split by a comet's flight

Chorus

And I dreamed I travelled to a far country
Will you rise up my sisters, will you come with me?

Chorus

I dreamed I walked along the road outside
And I left that city where I'll no more abide

Chorus

I dreamed I walked into the mountains high
Where I reached to heaven and I touched the sky

Chorus

I dreamed I travelled to the barren plain
Where the winds blew dry and I prayed for rain

Chorus

I dreamed I'd come at last to find the shore
And there I'd settle and I'd go no more

Chorus

I dreamed a nation was my legacy
For a freeborn people shall my children be

Chorus

It may be a simple dream and nothing more
Still I'll set my course to that distant shore

Chorus
</song>

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Varushka look and feel

2015-03-06T12:31:13Z

Daisy: image credits

==Overview==
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Varushkans like to display their wealth in their costume. Clothes are usually practical and well made but are made from cloth dyed in bright colours and then intricately embroidered with a dark thread. The use of fur is common, on cloaks, robes and mantles in a range of colours and styles.

Armour and weapons are always solid and well made. For most they are practical pieces made to serve, but the wealthiest Varushkans use ornate designs that serve to strike fear into their enemies. Talismans are widespread, used to help ward off evil.

''Also see [[Varushka costumes]] and [[Varushka icons and artistry]].''

==Feel==
Dour, stern, uncompromising, wise, cunning, prosperous, rich, powerful.

==Breakdown==
===Influences===
Rus and Slavic costume.
===Materials===
Fabrics are usually a single colour, suitable for embroidery or decoration. Poorer Varushkans use practical and hard wearing materials like wool,
felt, heavy cotton, leather - but the fabric is less important than the decoration. Fur is common, but is usually reserved for trim.

===Colours===
Bright vibrant colours predominate, with white, decorated with brightly coloured embroidery also common.

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===Clothing===
The most common Varushkan costume is a white shirt, tunic or dress, often white or a light colour. This is usually intricately embroidered on the hems, red is traditional but other bright contrasting colours are seen. Garments are sometimes made from wool, but most Varushkans prefer a lighter material. These can be worn in layers for warmth, commonly with different garments in contrasting colours. Warm shawls in bright colours are handed down through families.
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Varushkans of all genders frequently wear plain coloured “hero trousers”, baggy down to just past the knee then strapped to the leg. Trousers may be plain or brightly dyed but are usually made from fabric of a single colour; the strapping is another opportunity for a bright contrasting colour, embroidery or both. Coats are more common than cloaks. The traditional coat has an asymmetric overlap across the chest, is nipped in at the waist but flares out below the waist to a full ‘skirt’. The wealthiest wear coats in bright strong colours often with fur trim or embroidered hems. If dresses are worn they tend to have full, layered skirts, often with added aprons.
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===Decoration and Embroidery===
Fur is used extensively to trim garments of all kinds including armour. When trims are added it tends to be in bands of colour around the upper arms and hems. The most distinctive feature of Varushkan costume is the intricate embroidery that provides a strong contrast. Embroidery stands out as a mark of the wearer’s wealth - and is most commonly seen in bands and hems not across whole garments.

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===Jewellery===
Amber and silver are most commonly worn. Hunters carry amulets, talismans and fetishes designed to protect them from the monsters that might otherwise hunt them in turn.
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===Hats===
Varushkan hats may be simple embroidered round caps trimmed with fur (you can find a simple tutorial for making this kind of hat [[How to make a fur hat|here]]),or else pointed caps that fold over the head.

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===Armour===
The traditional Varushkan armour worn by the Schlacta, the professional soldiers, is tightly woven scale or lamellar. It is as likely to be leather as metal.

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Splinted greaves and vambraces are common. Helms usually rise to a point, often with a plume.

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===Shields===
Round shields are common and some Schlacta employ a pavisse.

===Weapons===
[[Schlacta]], the Varushkan professional warriors, use heavy weapons of
war such as broad swords, war axes and bardiches. The woodsman’s axe is a common weapon for many other Varushkans.

==Low status Varushkans==
This couple are wearing some traditional Varushkan garments, a white dress and a white tunic with embroidered hems respectively. Sheepskin is a practical but cheap material which is worn by poor Varushkans, wealthier individuals would layer their garments instead and hem them with fur. Patterned fabrics, such as the woman’s skirt, are used by the poor in place of the embroidered garments worn by most Varushkans.
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==Wise Ones==
Wise ones have a distinctive look which marks them out from other Varushkans. They receive a lot of gifts from the people they help and many people choose to give hair locks in return for luck and answers. The Wise Ones might braid these into their own hair, or wear them in bunches on belts or tied to staves. Other talismans and totems similarly given are similarly incorporated into hair or clothing or worn as jewellery. Many Wise Ones will know the story of each talisman they wear.
Wise Ones also tend to wear blindfolds when they are conducting official business, and for some their blindfolds become an iconic part of their costume worn as head band or stole. They often make the most traditional of choices - long wrapover coats in the favourite colours of Varushka are common, and many take a ritualised approach to ageing - emphasising crow's feet around the eyes with colours, drawing attention to white streaks in the hair - even clothing is sometimes retained, patched and repatched to show its age.

==Boyars==
Warrior Boyars often wear the traditional lamellar armour but with more complete coverage and supplemented with hardened leather or plate on the fore-arms and legs. A few wear plate that has a simple design but is intricately decorated with the tooled plate emphasising the strength and power of the wearer to make them appear darker and more intimidating.

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==Children==
Costume for Varushkan children follows the traditional styles and emphasis on bright colours.
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==Animals and Runes==

Varushkans often use [[Varushka_religious_beliefs#The Virtuous Animals|animal symbols]] and runes to express virtues in their storytelling and artwork.

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==Things you're unlikely to see==
*Varushka is not a catch all culture for all things cool and Eastern European/Russian. It would be surprising to find short braided cavalry jackets (eg Hussar's jackets) worn by Varushkans rather than the long swirling coats they favour.
*Similarly big fur hats and tiny waistcoats - Cossack style - are not commonly worn and neither are Cossack dances a common form of Varushkan entertainment.
* It may seem a short step from some of the costume guidance and the cold of Varushkan lands to Vikings and then to Thor's Hammer symbols. As Thor doesn't exist in the world of Empire the iconic symbol (much like the Christian Cross in Highguard) is best avoided where possible.

[[Category:Varushka]]
[[Category:Nations]]

The League music

2015-02-26T16:42:58Z

Daisy: moving uncle vyig

{{stub}}

==The music of The League==

===Style summary===
The League is a combination of different cultures and its performance traditions reflect that. High art in all its forms, theatre and songs laced with innuendo and hidden meaning, characters who delight in cunning and trickery, flamboyance, opera and baroque/classical stylings accompanied by flutes, guitars, and even brass, themes of playfulness, loyalty and ingenuity. Low culture: comedy song, street magic, and clever rhyming, often poking fun at someone or something.

For the high art of the League, look to European and Spanish-influenced classical music, particularly Italian and German including arias, lieder, and classical instrumental music from Argentina. For low art concentrate on songs with the theme of deals, cunning, trickery, flamboyance, or loyalty and instrumental music with an Italian, Spanish, or Mariachi sound.

===Commonly known songs===

====Songs about notable people/entities in the League====
* [[Marching to Victory]] - a song about Senator Cesare.
* [[A Fool in a Crown]] - a comedy
* [[The Night of a Thousand Torches]] - a song from Temeshwar
* [[Holberg Wine]] - a tragedy
* [[Reuben's Brethren]] - popular with the mercenary companies
* [[Uncle Vyig]] - funny song about organised crime, very popular in Temeschwar, usually not sung in other League cities.

====One for the kids====
[[Tower Song]] - a silly round demonstrating League competitiveness.

===Further examples===

====Songs====
* [[Treggajoran Wartha]] - song about rings and trickery
* Say Gentle Ladies - medium difficulty Mozart aria. A lovely English language arrangement is available to buy [http://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/product/say-gentle-ladies/34923/357/ here]
* Flower duet (Google it)
* [[Lovely Joan]] - medium song with a moral
* [[Tower Song]] - a funny round demonstrating League competitiveness.

====Instrumentation and tunes====
* Recorders, flutes and whistles, classically played guitar or stringed instrument, violin, classical accordion.
* [[Elizabethan recorder music]] which played on any classical instrument would be appropriate for The League.

====Other performance traditions====
* Theatre and acting. There is a lot more information about this in [[The League]] brief, in particular the page on [[Troupes]].

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* For 'low culture' sing in a tongue in cheek way, have a game or a joke with your audience.
* For 'high art' sing in an operatic way, up the drama! Have a listen to some Portuguese fado songs and copy the style.
* When playing folk tunes, try to pick ones that are a bit classical or baroque sounding, a good example is [http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1033 The Gale by Susan Conger]

===Our sources===
Italian or German opera, Argentinian tangos and other S. American accordion music (cf. The Oxford Concert Party), classical poetry, Portuguese/Brazilian fado songs, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbO4k6ISHSk&list=PLD2322E5CDAD0AAD6&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:League Music]]
[[Category:The League]]
[[Category:Music]]

The League music

2015-02-26T16:41:26Z

Daisy:

{{stub}}

==The music of The League==

===Style summary===
The League is a combination of different cultures and its performance traditions reflect that. High art in all its forms, theatre and songs laced with innuendo and hidden meaning, characters who delight in cunning and trickery, flamboyance, opera and baroque/classical stylings accompanied by flutes, guitars, and even brass, themes of playfulness, loyalty and ingenuity. Low culture: comedy song, street magic, and clever rhyming, often poking fun at someone or something.

For the high art of the League, look to European and Spanish-influenced classical music, particularly Italian and German including arias, lieder, and classical instrumental music from Argentina. For low art concentrate on songs with the theme of deals, cunning, trickery, flamboyance, or loyalty and instrumental music with an Italian, Spanish, or Mariachi sound.

===Commonly known songs===

====Songs about notable people/entities in the League====
* [[Marching to Victory]] - a song about Senator Cesare.
* [[A Fool in a Crown]] - a comedy
* [[The Night of a Thousand Torches]] - a song from Temeshwar
* [[Holberg Wine]] - a tragedy
* [[Reuben's Brethren]] - popular with the mercenary companies

====One for the kids====
[[Tower Song]] - a silly round demonstrating League competitiveness.

===Further examples===

====Songs====
* [[Uncle Vyig]] - funny song about organised crime, very popular in Temeschwar, usually not sung in other League cities.
* [[Treggajoran Wartha]] - song about rings and trickery
* Say Gentle Ladies - medium difficulty Mozart aria. A lovely English language arrangement is available to buy [http://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/product/say-gentle-ladies/34923/357/ here]
* Flower duet (Google it)
* [[Lovely Joan]] - medium song with a moral
* [[Tower Song]] - a funny round demonstrating League competitiveness.

====Instrumentation and tunes====
* Recorders, flutes and whistles, classically played guitar or stringed instrument, violin, classical accordion.
* [[Elizabethan recorder music]] which played on any classical instrument would be appropriate for The League.

====Other performance traditions====
* Theatre and acting. There is a lot more information about this in [[The League]] brief, in particular the page on [[Troupes]].

===How to adapt your repertoire===
* For 'low culture' sing in a tongue in cheek way, have a game or a joke with your audience.
* For 'high art' sing in an operatic way, up the drama! Have a listen to some Portuguese fado songs and copy the style.
* When playing folk tunes, try to pick ones that are a bit classical or baroque sounding, a good example is [http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1033 The Gale by Susan Conger]

===Our sources===
Italian or German opera, Argentinian tangos and other S. American accordion music (cf. The Oxford Concert Party), classical poetry, Portuguese/Brazilian fado songs, Alejandro Toledo & The Magic Tombolinos

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbO4k6ISHSk&list=PLD2322E5CDAD0AAD6&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:League Music]]
[[Category:The League]]
[[Category:Music]]

Jack in the Green

2015-02-19T10:33:23Z

Daisy:

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:Marches]]

Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdpetwzep2ee44u/Jack%20in%20the%20Green.mp3?dl=0| Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls.]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Jack belonged before he became Jack. Jack himself has heard it so often he scarcely reacts - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes causes a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack goes back to doing whatever he was doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

Jack in the Green

2015-02-19T10:33:04Z

Daisy:

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:Marches]]

Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

[https://www.dropbox.com/s/mdpetwzep2ee44u/Jack%20in%20the%20Green.mp3?dl=0|Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls.]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Jack belonged before he became Jack. Jack himself has heard it so often he scarcely reacts - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes causes a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack goes back to doing whatever he was doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

Jack in the Green

2015-02-19T10:29:03Z

Daisy:

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:Marches]]

Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls. [[Media:Jack_in_the_Green.mp3]]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Jack belonged before he became Jack. Jack himself has heard it so often he scarcely reacts - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes causes a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack goes back to doing whatever he was doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

Jack in the Green

2015-02-19T10:28:37Z

Daisy: adding mp3

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]
[[Category:Marches]]

Tune and lyrics by Martin Graebe. Good version on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VMduKN7qgI here]

Free mp3 of Daisy singing Jack in the Green with Glasgow Madrigirls. [[File:Jack_in_the_Green.mp3]]

<ic>"This song has always been very popular with the Ramsbruck family of Bregasland, to whom Jack belonged before he became Jack. Jack himself has heard it so often he scarcely reacts - unless the singers venture one of the less-well-known raunchy verses, which sometimes causes a raised eyebrow, or a quiet "Now then" before Jack goes back to doing whatever he was doing before."</ic>

<song>
Now Winter is over I'm happy to say
And we're all met again on the first day of May
And we're all met again for to dance and to sing
And to go about dancing with Jack- in - the- Green

''Jack- in - the- Green, Jack- in - the- Green''
''And we'll dance every Springtime with Jack- in - the- Green''

Now Jack- in - the- Green is a vey strange man
Though he dies every Autumn he is born every Spring
And each year on his birthday we dance through the streets
And in return Jack he will ripen the wheat

With his mantle he'll cover the trees that are bare
And our gardens he'll trim with his jacket so fair
And the fields he will sow with the hair of his head
And the corn it will ripen til old Jack is dead

Now the sun is half up and it tokens the hour
When the children arrive with their garlands of flowers
So now let the music and dancing begin
And toast the good heart of young Jack- in- the- Green
</song>

The Marches music

2015-02-12T16:42:35Z

Daisy: arranging

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy ryhthms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner
* [[Bolholt Song]] - celebrates the Bolholt house
* [[Gallant Archer]] - song about William Archer and his part in rescuing three of the Cullochs
* [[Men of Fenrose]] - sung by and in honour of the soldiers of Cabot's Company

===Further examples===

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Battle Anthems====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
* [[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* [[Kalenda Maya]] - More commonly known in the Marches as The Month of May. A tune sometimes used for Marches dances, typically rather rowdy affairs!
* The Chook Dance - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

[[Category:Music]]
[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

The Marches music

2015-02-12T16:41:28Z

Daisy: /* Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches */

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy ryhthms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner
* [[Bolholt Song]] - celebrates the Bolholt house
* [[Gallant Archer]] - song about William Archer and his part in rescuing three of the Cullochs.

===Further examples===

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Battle Anthems====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
*[[Men of Fenrose]] - sung by and in honour of the soldiers of Cabot's Company
*[[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* [[Kalenda Maya]] - More commonly known in the Marches as The Month of May. A tune sometimes used for Marches dances, typically rather rowdy affairs!
* The Chook Dance - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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Gallant Archer

2015-02-12T16:40:08Z

Daisy: creating

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Tune trad. Scottish Athole Gathering. Lyrics by Daisy Abbott, Jude Reid, and Kath Wheeler.

IC written by Jennet of Mourn.

<song>
'''Chorus:'''
Who will go with gallant Archer?
Who will go with Sweet Will's men?
He's the flower of the Bregas
And the darling of the fen
See the white rose in his bonnet
See his banner proudly sway
His good sword he now has drawn it
And has flung the sheath away

Fighting in the woods of Chalcis
Orcs and monsters all were killed
Highborn, Freeborn all to safety
Marchers last to leave the field
A sudden rush from Orcish forces
Loud and clear retreat did sound
As the portal closed behind us
Three bold men lay on the ground

Chorus

Up then spoke Courageous Archer
"Marchers we have all to do
Jack can open up the portal
But we must bravely step back through
If they live we'll bring them back
And celebrate our Loyalty
And if they're dead we'll bring them home
To lay beneath an apple tree."

Chorus

Every faithful Marcher followed
Strong as steady as the tide
Returned into the field of battle
Stoutly marching side by side
Ever watchful, ever onward
Generals, Captains, brave Yeomen,
Scoured the dark and faced the danger
To bring the Cullachs home again!

Chorus

Of the three that day were rescued
Two were wounded mighty sore
And one did give his life for Empire
Birchland did rise up no more
So Marchers always stand together
To make a loss of one from three
Join me now in praise and song
For William Archer's bravery!

Chorus
</song>

The Marches music

2015-02-12T16:36:14Z

Daisy: /* Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches */

==The music of The Marches==

===Style summary===
A capella harmony singing, no-nonsense, boisterous and earthy, simple folk and morality tales, minimal instrumentation, heavy ryhthms on guitars, bouzoukis or concertinas. Themes of working the land, agriculture and fishing, harvest, enjoyment of food and drink, recognition of obligation to the land and its people.

The music of the Marches is drawn primarily from the folk song traditions of Devon and Cornwall, Derbyshire and Yorkshire: wassails, shanties, drinking songs, and work songs.

===Commonly known songs===

* Many people in the Marches will know one version of a [[Wassail]]
*[[Marcher battle song]]
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Musical traditions====
After every harvest, Marcher farmers perform a traditional ceremony, a [[Wassail]], to scare away evil spirits from the fields and ensure a good crop for the coming year. There are more details on the wassail in the [[Marches Culture and Customs#Wassail|Marcher brief]].

In the Marches, misdeeds are sometimes rewarded with a public shaming using noise, music, even satirical performance of some kind, called [[Marches Culture and Customs#Rough Music|Rough Music]]. Some chants are known throughout the Marches such as those below (usually interspersed with verses detailing the misdeed), some songs/performances are written especially for the occasion!
* "Ran tan tan, raise your hand, a sin to us is a sin to the land"
* "Old Fred Thatcher (insert name of miscreant), we know your name, Old Fred Thatcher, you are to blame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your shame, Old Fred Thatcher, we know your name!"

====One for the kids====

* [[Whose Pigs Are These?]] a fun round
* [[Chants for naughty children]]

====Songs about notable people/entities in the Marches====
* [[Jack in the Green]] - a song about the [[Marches Egregore]]
* [[The Culloch Boar]] - tells of the origins of the Culloch banner
* [[Bolholt Song]] - celebrates the Bolholt house
* [[Gallant Archer]] - song about William Archer and his part in a rescue operation

===Further examples===

====Funeral Songs====
* [[Lay me Low]] - medium difficulty harmony song
* [[Marcher Dirge]] - a bit heretical
* [[Only Remembered For What We Have Done]] - medium harmony song
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars

====Battle Anthems====
* [[Marcher battle song]] easy song for marching into battle
* [[Rebel March]] easy song for upsetting the Dawnish (and battles)
* Yet another [[Marches Battle Song]]
*[[Men of Fenrose]] - sung by and in honour of the soldiers of Cabot's Company
*[[The Rising of the Moon]]

====Harvest Songs and Wassails====
* [[Bringing in the Sheaves]] medium harvest song (not the hymn)
* [[John Barleycorn]] medium folk song
* [[Wassail]] easy call and response, and lots of versions
*[[Harvest Time]] - song about the land and Britta's lost army

====More Songs====
*[[The Unquiet Grave]]
* [[Tom A'Bedlam's song]]
* [[Ye Mariners All]] - medium drinking song
* [[Here's A Health to the Company]] - easy drinking song
* [[His Banner's Not Mine]] - medium love song
* [[Pull Down Below]] - medium shanty with chunky harmonies
* One More Day - easy shanty: [http://shanty.rendance.org/lyrics/showlyric.php/onemore lyrics], [http://thealbionband.bandcamp.com/track/one-more-day tune]
* [[Ten Thousand Miles]] - love song with easy harmony accomp
* [[Pretty Ploughboy]] - easy song about saving the lad you love from the war
* [[Silent Giants]] - easy song about standing stones
* [[Carts Come Home]] - easy song about bring back Marcher dead from the wars
* [[Marcher At My Side]] - easy song popular with soldiers in the Marcher armies
* [[Mournwold Harvest]] - sad song about orphaned Mournwolders

====Instrumentation and tunes====
Songs are usually unaccompanied in the Marches, typically sung in raucous harmony rather than using instruments. However sometimes drums, guitars, fiddles, and whistles/recorders are used. For instrumental music, look to the very heavy rhythms of trad English music (the kind of tunes used to accompany morris dancing would be perfect).

* [[Kalenda Maya]] - More commonly known in the Marches as The Month of May. A tune sometimes used for Marches dances, typically rather rowdy affairs!
* The Chook Dance - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Chook_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Chook_dance_faster.mp3 recording]
* The Bond Ring - dance tune by Cora and Kit [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/The_Bond_Ring_Dance.pdf score], [http://www.northshield.co.uk/KitsTunes/Ceilidh_tunes/Bondring.mp3 recording]

====Other performance traditions====
[[Marches Tales]]

===How to adapt your repertoire===
The Marches is all about people singing ''together'' so choose songs that have a chorus, or even better, a call and response line. Nothing wrong with a bard leading a song but try to encourage participation from the people around you, even if just banging their tankards off the table. Can you turn your song into a drinking song?! Think of some harmonies ahead of time and if possible teach them to your group instead of using instrumental accompaniment. Any folk song will be fine but especially those in the themes listed above. If you are mostly a solo performer perhaps learn a few easy rounds and sing them with people between your solo numbers.

===Our sources===
* Songs: Coope, Boyes and Simpson; Muldoon's Picnic; Fisherman's Friends; Chumbawamba (the folky stuff e.g. English Rebel Songs and ABCDEFG), and number of Welsh a capella choirs; all great acapella harmony singers. Seth Lakeman (sans guitar), June Tabor.
* Tunes: Florida, Eliza Carthy
* Great list of harvest themed songs: http://piereligion.org/harvestsongs.html
* Good list of sea shanty lyrics (stick to the very English sounding ones, preferably about fishing): http://www.boundingmain.com/Lyrics.htm
* Good list of sources for English folk suitable for the Marches: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/

Here is a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uoJyPBKHsU&list=PL28D4FF038B6F4D35&feature=plpp_play_all youtube playlist] of appropriate or inspiring music.

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[[Category:The Marches]]
[[Category:Marches Music]]

Marching to Victory

2015-02-12T16:22:04Z

Daisy:

Original tune Noi Vogliamo, an Italian rice weeding song. Words by Jude Reid and Daisy Abbott. Original on youtube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ER1O8dhIzw here]

Helper files, chorus only:

* [[Media:League-tune.mp3]]
* [[Media:League-alto.mp3]]
* [[Media:League-low1.mp3]]
* [[Media:League-low2.mp3]]

<song>
'''Marching to Victory'''
by the Gremani Family

Chorus:
Come join with me in song, to war we march along
Fighting for fame and treasure, leaving our life of leisure
The buckler and the blade, the weapons of our trade
War is the greatest pleasure
Marching to Victory!

Thieves may rob you of your treasures golden
Fame's a coin that never can be stolen

Chorus:

Place your lover's ring upon your finger
And look back when at the gate you linger

Chorus:

Those at home will keep the fires burning
All to welcome us on our returning

Chorus:

If you find me with the dead and dying
Kiss my lips and leave me where I'm lying

Chorus:

Even death can't rob us of our glory
Our deeds will live on in song and story

Chorus:

Dressed for war, Don Cesare's a charmer
All the bravos love a man in armour

Chorus:

</song>

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