Order of the Argent Bear
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Greetings To

Her Excellency, Mistress Sorcha, Baroness of Eskalya

From Your Guard, Baronessa Supra Omnia

Your Guard offers to you this report in the hope that you will find it pleasing

On the 3rd day of March, Your Guard - being its captain Viscount Sir Georg and two of his squires, Lord Conner and Lord Alfonso - and accompanied by Viscountess Katarzina, Mistress Cedrin, Justyn and Mongo - did journey to four corners of Thy Splendid Barony to assert Your just claim to rule

To the East we journied upwards into the foothills of the Eastern Mountains, above where the Nordics often ski, and called our challenge

To the South we journied on the Southern Road, past the Marshes of the Potter to where the snow-eating giant still slumbers, and called our challenge

To the West we journied to the End of the Land, beyond where the dragons fly, and called our challenge

To the North we journied to the Field Centennial beside the Northern Road, passage to Thy Neighbors, and called our challenge

At each place, Lord Conner did sound his horn loudly

And Sir Georg did read these words boldly

Let all in the sound of my voice pay heed, You stand in the lands of the Barony Eskalya

Ruled well and justly by Their Excellencies

Master Tancred - Laurel, Pelican, and All Around Spiff Guy

and Mistress Sorcha - Laurel, and Inspiration to Her Barony

Before you stands Her Guard Ready to accept any challenge against Their Rule

Though we know already that none shall so dare

Either from fear of Eskalya's arms Or for love of her Baroness

Then again did Lord Conner sound the horn

And after proper pause, we both rejoiced and lamented. Rejoiced for at no place did any advance to answer our challenge and oppose your claim. And lamented for at no place did any advance to answer our challenge and give us cause to practice our arms in your defense.

And before we traveled on, Sir Georg laid a flower in the snow, as token of Your Grace and Beauty

These things we did for joy and for respect to our Office as Guard

and for the fondness we bear for Her Excellency

Baronessa Supra Omnia

 


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