497 Session 3 - Group 1

A Chronicle of the Year of Despair,

Four-hundred and Ninety-Seven

Being a Tale of Five Knights who Rode into the Cold, Found a Dying King, Witnessed a Sacrifice, Lost a Pagan and Gained an Arian, then Raided Essex on the Way Home

Set down by the Clerk

Session Summary

• The five knights ride through brutal winter conditions toward the Summerlands, carrying Countess Ellen's appeal for alliance against Saxon encroachment
• Sir Euric collapses with fever on the road; the group detours to an ancient hill fort near Wells whose inhabitants speak only Brythonic and regard Sarum with open suspicion
• They find King Cadwyr the Elder bedridden and dying, tended by his young wife, who offers a conditional promise of  ...