Re: [Mid] history question

To explain just a little more, this followed hard on the heels of the
"Northwoods Dynasty". Northwoods had not only several sets of royalty in a
very short time period (Irial, Thaid, Merowald, Berengaer, Rolac), but for
a while virtually all of the Curia lived in the Lansing, Michigan area -
several in the same house. Only the Exchequer lived outside a 2-mile
radius, and she was in Kalamazoo. To quote Mark Twain, you "couldn't chuck
a brick any direction without crippling a king".

While this seemed quite normal and reasonable to those of us living there,
I imagine it caused some resentment to those who lived outside that charmed
circle. When the center of political power migrated away - in this case, to
Cleftlands - there was a certain amount of consternation amongst the folk
in Northwoods, and some hostility to this turn of events.

Bear in mind that there were only four major Midrealm loci at the time:
Tregirtsea, Northwoods, Cleftlands-Middle Marches, and Rivenstar-Wurmwald.
At any time, you could identify a royal pair's origins with one of those axes.

Catherine Aimee Le Moyne

At 09:56 PM 6/24/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Greetings!
>
>
> >Okay, I just read the interview with Duke Finnvarr, and I just gotta know
> >what he means by "The Cleftlands Dynasty"... sounds cool to me. ;)
>
>
>If you have a look at the reigns starting with Laurelen's first in 1978, for
>about seven or eight years there were a lot based in Cleftlands. I know
>both Laurelen and Alen were from that area; I think Emrys was as well, and
>there might have even been more.And the dominance went further than
>that--for instance, Laurelen had a term as Earl Marshal, and Countess
>Genevieve was Kingdom Seneschal for a good long time as well. There was a
>widespread perception, I am told, as a result that Cleftlands "ran the
>kingdom."
>
>That's what's meant by the Cleftlands Dynasty.
>
>Nicolaa
>
>From: "Susan Carroll-Clark" <nicolaa@columbus.rr.com>
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