A Chronicle of the Year of Betrayals,

Five Hundred

Being an Account of Saxon Wolves, a Monster That Walks, and a Town That Was Not There Last Year

Set down by the Clerk

Session Summary

• Countess Ellen's court convened to distribute Salisbury's first real surplus in living memory. Euric's exceptional stewardship advice unlocked 40 libra for kingdom investment.
• The knights split their vote along fealty and self-interest lines, forcing a compromise: Sarum's central keep was completed, and a port town, Brenicote, was founded near Amesbury to draw pilgrim trade. Drusilla topped up the last libra needed to finish the moat around Sarum.
• Two Saxon embassies arrived at court seeking Salisbury's sword-arms for other people's wars. The knig ...