owners of the Singing Caves have relied on Marcher sweat and blood to protect their investment. Indeed, no Marcher had held the Singing Caves Bourse Seat in

but context suggests a typically Marcher piece of salty wit. Marchers are keen on mottoes and folk sayings. Many Marcher households adopt a single motto

but some Marcher folk continue to believe them and rats and crows are often killed on sight by Marchers as a consequence. Another old Marcher tradition

wealth in the Marches. Even a modest holding produces an income that allows its yeoman to live comfortably. With some improvement, a Marcher farm can pay

of revocation requires a lesser majority to pass. A slip is not a fall. Marcher Proverb A citizen who is revoked is immediately removed from the Imperial

of the Empire, and many modern Marcher magicians look on it as being quaint and better suited to the history books. Marcher enchantments (and curses) often

and untested. The archetypal Marcher is a yeoman. The yeomen are the salt-of-the-earth, typical characters of the Marches. They possess most of the political

excommunicate a citizen. A national assembly my revoke one of their own, but the Marcher National Assembly cannot consider a judgement to revoke a Navarr senator

characters are part of a group of some sort - a chapter, noble house, family, Marcher household, hall, spire, vale, or what have you - and it is recommended that

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important events across the Marches. The Bailiff of the Grand Market is an Imperial title awarded to a Marcher citizen. It is a Marcher position appointed through

and the banner are ways of displaying such symbols, as is the livery of a Marcher household, or the heraldry of a noble or Noble house in Dawn. As a more

barbarians out of Sermersuaq and Kallavesa at the head of joint Wintermark and Marcher armies. Without her excellent leadership and inspirational presence is it

In the end, the Marcher demands were met and the newly-united Marches became part of the Empire. The first thing the newly united Marchers did was turn their

the basis of political leadership in the Marches, and power is vested in those who work the land. The Marcher households are groups of yeomen who have

preferring to call up the rough, slouching appetite of the manticore; their Marcher counterpart, by contrast, might see evoking a manticore as foolish, when

held by any Marcher citizen. The Friar has tenure and serves until they die or step down. They can be revoked by the General Assembly, the Marcher National

great piece of set dressing at the heart of any Marcher camp. Food plays an important role in Marcher hearth magic and culture. Many important bargains

harvest in the Marches, the market towns would be in the best position to adapt to that disaster and continue to prosper. Those Marcher folk who do not

political career of the Freeborn senator, and saw relationships between the Marcher households and the Market Towns sour even further. Giselle was able to distance