By Brother Aurembald Let us speak plainly, friends: the Kingdom’s marketplaces are filled with wares of every kind — boots, bread, beetroot wine, and occasionally an alarming number of onions. But they are also filled with that murkier exchange: the dance of the haggle. It is an ancient rite, olderContinue Reading
By Henrietta Clay, Senior Features Correspondent Each Late Rains Month, when the skies are grey and optimism seems a bit of a reach, the village of North Saddle hosts the Day of Reasonable Triumph — a modest but deeply sincere festival dedicated to celebrating things that more or less workedContinue Reading
By Henrietta Clay, Senior Cultural Features Writer If you stroll past the butcher’s stall and the pickled eel vendor at Eastgate Market and follow the scent of beeswax and pressed linen, you’ll find yourself face to face with a riot of color, a sea of fabric, and a peculiar signContinue Reading
By Henrietta Clay, Senior Correspondent for Cultural Affairs This past Sunday saw the triumphant unveiling of the Hall of Beasts, the latest wing of the Royal Museum of History & Antiquities, a soaring stone structure dedicated to the history, lore, and biology of the creatures of the Kingdom of Eyehasseen.Continue Reading