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The game will be using HarnMaster, and set in a realistic-themed fantasy world, beginning with a culture something like Anglo-Saxon England, when paganism was being replaced by monotheism. The people are the Bronding people, and the village will be Tiwesdæg (Tee-wez-dag). Through taking a mythic and not purely historical approach to the setting, it's hoped to gain an appreciation for seeing the world as the Anglo-Saxons saw it through their own stories.
The story takes place twenty years after the events of Tiwesdæg Clíewen 2, which in turn were twenty years after those of Tiwesdæg Clíewen, and those stories are the history of this one.
Sessions The game will be played in Oakleigh on Wednesday nights. Each of us will bring something to eat, with Kyle bringing dinner, Aron something sweet, Matt chips, Nick dips, and Ian drinks. Dinner will be supplied at 7pm, and the game will begin at 7:30pm, and keep going until 10:45pm. Play will begin and end at these hours regardless of what time players appear.
The story of Tiwesdæg:- Forty years ago the evil sorceror Fælsian threatened the land with his magical deceit and violation of women, and stealing of their children. His schemings and those of his daughter Aelwyn brought the ceorls into conflict with their Ðegn, and the wrath of the Cyning upon the Shire. The rightful Ðegn Osric was mortally-wounded in a battle, and named his Huntsmaster and bastard son Godmund as his heir. Godmund then travelled with his companions to the west seeking the Mæstgold, and returned after sixteen years.
In his absence Fælsian's son Osric the Younger came to inherit the Shire, but Osric was defeated and driven away by Gwynæth, while Godmund slew Aelwyn and then became Eorl of Tiwesdæg, and with his help Berchtwald overthrew the weak old Cyning and took his throne for himself.
The story of Tiwesdæg 2:- Godmund had married a savage woman from the mountains, Gail. When he married her, he swore to uphold her people's laws as well as his own. Born to them were Robert, and sixteen years later, Gerda. The Brondings inherit from man to nephew, and Gail's people from man to first son; so Robert expected to inherit the Eorldom, but Bronding law said he would receive nothing. Only the Cyning Berchtwald could change the law with his Witan, and he would not. Godmund had no heirs (nephews) under Bronding law, so the land should revert to the Cyning, to dispose of as he sees fit.
Robert worked with Gerda to try to unite the mountain tribes called by the Brondings the Reþes, to march on Tiwesdæg, and force Godmund to acknowledge him as heir. He marched, but Scop Aldfrid and Huscarle Coenred had brought from the capital Egbert, son of Cyning Berchtwald, to be granted the Eorldom, marry Gerda and together rule the land. The Reþes were driven away, and Robert retired to parts unknown.
