COURT INFLUENCE ;; eachdraidh

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QUESTS, COURT INFLUENCE, & RANK.
Knight of the Golden Cadre
note: these entries are either outside of monthly events or prior to the influence system
organizing lambton worm defenses; fighting celegorm as the unseelie invade; helping ben heal seelie; battle for the silmaril; defending the seelie camp during the battle for the silarmil; getting chainsawed; assassination attempt by the unseelie; speaking to cyl about solais and the jabberwock; call to guard caer glaem; offering to help raid unseelie camps outside cothromach; talking with lancelot about training; network training announcement; october training log; sansa's call for aid; preparing fields of cothromach; cothromach battle; seeking a way to destroy the jabberwock

- organized defenses and fought against the Lambton Worms
- fought against the invading Unseelie; defended native Seelie guards from Celegorm
- organized protection for the dragon egg during the Battle for the Silmaril
- fought in the Battle for the Silmaril; revealed to be more than human when Grell chainsawed him
- had an Unseelie bounty placed on his head for his part in the battle
- sought information on the Jabberwock
- assists with regular guarding of Caer Glaem
- went to assist with raiding Unseelie camps outside Cothromach
- asked, along with Lancelot, to train Seelie shardbearers
- announced intentions to the Seelie Court
- ran training sessions daily as allowed; had soldiers run instead if needed
- responded to Sansa Stark, Keeper of Cothromach, and her call for aid; promised to escort her sister
- worked to protect Cothromach's fields
- fought in the battle outside of Cothromach
- traveled with Lancelot, Faolan, and the Brucolac to meet with the Pyrii and attempt to find a way to destroy the Jabberwock

Champion of Redgate; Fox Hunter
seeking the dragon's spirit; research; learning of reynard's threat on alyosha; seelie negotiations; waking the seelie; helping save, heal, and return alyosha; helping repair redgate; learning about sigils; learning of reynard's daughter; telling the brucolac that reynard has a daughter; speaking to saralegui about reynard and redgate; arriving in redgate; meeting with reynard and the others; being dumped in the ocean and subsequent rescue; returning to redgate and learning what reynard took; discovering alyosha is alive and being asked for help; team sigils in the fight against reynard; the death of reynard the fox

- helped find the spirit of the dragon beneath Caer Glaem
- researched Redgate & Alyosha
- participated in negotiations
- alerted Alyosha to the fact that Reynard the Fox, Unseelie ally, wanted her dead
- overhead Alyosha agree to ally herself with the Unseelie and that Reul plans to revive the Jabberwock; alerted Mako to this fact to tell the Seelie monarchs; woke the other Seelie to head into the mountain
- helped Bolin save Alyosha from death by dragon
- assisted in repairing Redgate, leaving some positive Seelie ties still intact
- learned of Alyosha's death by the hands of Renyard the Fox
- learned about the sigils from Hermione
- attended Alyosha's wake
- learned that Reynard has a daughter from Flora and that the two were behind the destruction of the Drabkeeper's Castle
- told the Brucolac about Reynard's daughter
- told Saralegui, new lord of Redgate, that he would come after learning that Reynard is riding for the town
- arrived in Redgate; had a meeting with several others and Reynard
- dumped in the ocean by Reynard
- contacted by Alyosha (who was turned into a vampire) for help in a plan to finish Reynard once and for all
- boarded A Crewed Interest as protection for magical users working with sigils
- helped kill Reynard the Fox using his blood as a magical ingredient

SHUCK'S SON
becoming the shuck with the completion sigil; joining the pack

- accidentally becomes Death
- dies and reborn as part of Death's pack

MONTHLY EVENTS & BOONS.
001 | The Lambton Worms | April 2014
event reference, boon reference

John will be given access to the Restricted Section of the Seelie library to learn the Healing Spells there. His aptitude for this line of magic will be stronger than any other. It will be difficult at first, however! Learning how to knit flesh, solder bone, and eventually drawing out poison directly from wounds. Ultimately, we'll leave a sensible time-frame based on your character's yen to learn this up to you.

He will also receive a photograph of his sister.

002 | The Attack of Wild Edric | May 2014
event reference, boon reference

John will be elevated and invited to join the golden-cloaked Golden Cadre by High-King Ridire. His weapon of choice, the hammer, shall be enchanted such that each blow it strikes on his foes shall heal the hurts of his brothers-in-arms (whoever fights closest alongside him), and he shall be given command of three-dozen soldiers, men and women of races native to Glaschu.

003 | The Cruel Ainsels | June 2014
event reference, boon reference

On the morning of the 23rd will be a note on John's bedside table from High-Queen Solais, next to a hand-sized photograph of her in a gilded frame:

Good morning, John! What a beautiful day it is.

I hope you will watch the royal audience through your locket today! I would very much like to speak with you. Your boon request was charming, and I should like to see what I may do for you in a more practical manner. I understand that you are at the Station; I hope the fairies are treating you well! They can be such little bothers at times and quite consider the Station their own clever little accident.

My castle does not feel as safe without your presence, yet I understand well your reasons for going away. Be safe and we shall talk soon.

Your Bright Lady

004 | The Harvest of the Scrying Stars | July 2014
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My Dearest John,

With this message you shall find a plain ring of red iron: once worn and loved by a long line of dwarf lords. Wear it, and the great majority of earth and stone shall obey your very will. But even stone, here, has a will all its own, and in some rare cases you shall no doubt come across some which will defy even your considerable mental fortitude.

With Affection, The Bright Lady

005 | The Falling of the Lawkamercyme | August 2014
event reference, boon reference

John is presented all-expense-paid writs of passage for four on a vacationer's yacht waiting at the Shipyard Ring. The message seams to imply that this will involve lots of calm coastal sailing and drinking.

006 | Finding the Three Feathers | September 2014
event reference, boon reference

He will instead receive a heavy metal seal of the crown, allowing him to requisition forces or other aid in Seelie-allied or controlled areas, and to teleport within Glaschu.

Inside will be a brief note from Solais, asking if he would be willing to work (together with other soldiers) toward training raw shardbearers into a cohesive and competent force.

007 | The Lost Moon | October 2014
event reference, boon reference

The High-King happily accepts [the invitation to come to a training session], under the condition the team goes fishing with him sometime in spring.

008 | The Uprising Dead | November 2014
event reference, boon reference

John will be gifted an armoured and trained female saber-fanged cave lion! Actually more closely related to weasels and stoats, it's as big as a bear, quick as a cat, and ferociously intelligent.

009 | The White Hart Hunt | December 2014
event reference, boon reference

John will be given a special selection of books on these topics (Shardbearer battles of note, the Jabberwock, the sundered courts)! He will also be afforded a handsome juniper and mistletoe crown and a Yule-red cloak.

"THE YEARS OF FALLING FIRE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAIN HEAVENS

The history details the extent of the War for the Shards during the past 500 years (current year before the switch is 5700 in the Age of Uncertain Heavens), and seems to be written by a non-aligned native historian. If the past 500 years is anything to go by, victory certainly seems to be majorly in Unseelie hands.

Within the past few hundred years, Seelie expanded territory to gain most of the drabwurld's major cities in the territory of Glaschu, but this advancement came at the cost of most of their prior shardbearers. Retaliation came in the form of unleashing magical biological warfare against the Unseelie, but this decimated majorly native populations, and resulted in curious pockets of virulence in vampiric populations (most of which, as a result, aligned themselves with the Unseelie) and a strong backlash from the native magic users. The largest native force of magic users, a matriarchal tribe of elves called the Aellyn, aligned themselves with Caer Scima as a result, and presently send young men to serve as combat sorcerers.

The most powerful readily-available magic all has to do with small sacrifices of bone, blood, flesh, and life, and many Unseelie shardbearers noted in the history were predominantly magic-users who gained skill and power through service to their court.

Within the last century occurred the unleashing of the Jabberwock, a beast of the Unseelie court, to fell the last of Caer Glaem's dragons. Some native legends about its use are included. Its destruction of many parts of the drabwurld led to the Red Famine, a decade-long famine so named because men would shed blood for as much as a handful of grain. Following the Battle of Falling Fire during that time of famine (he would note that Reynard and Isengrim are among the recorded deaths), enough shardbearers had died on both sides that the war fell into an 80-year-lull, leading to the present time of relative peace.

The author went on to speculate that the war would resume intensity as soon as there were enough shardbearers to do so."

010 | The Heavens Speak of Futures | January 2015
event reference, boon reference

For his sacrifice, another mark will appear on Mako's hand, a second of three, meaning he's that much closer to regaining his bending!

011 | The Wrath of the Jabberwhelp | February 2015
event reference, boon reference

A male saber-fanged cave lion get!

012 | The Wings of Winter & The Song of the Harp | March & April 2015
event reference 001, event reference 002, boon reference

John may communicate to canines and felines (which certainly includes the kittyweasels).

This is John's final boon before losing his shard.