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 Roderick Tharn, Chief Correspondent for State Affairs It was meant to be the most glorious midsummer celebration the Kingdom of Eyehasseen had ever seen. It was to rival coronations. Outshine solstices. Inspire song and possibly modest awe. It instead resulted in the brief evacuation of three hamlets, the ignitionContinue Reading
By Henrietta Clay, Senior Correspondent for Cultural Affairs In the mist-veiled waters of Loch Bairn, nestled deep in the northeast of the Kingdom of Eyehasseen, something stirs. Or so the legends go. For generations, villagers, fishermen, and the occasionally sober traveler have reported sightings of a mysterious creature gliding throughContinue 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 Jasper Finch, Military & Institutions Columnist Behind the polished parade uniforms, the Royal Marching Band, and the elaborate salutes lies one of the Kingdom’s most complex bureaucracies: the Ministry of War & Conflict. Charged with overseeing everything from active defense to historical battle reenactments, the Ministry may be theContinue Reading
By Osric Hayn, Field Correspondent Drymere is small. So small, in fact, that most maps of the Kingdom forget to include it. But this week, it made headlines as the entire population (42 permanent residents, 3 cows, and a dog with ambitions) gathered in the village green to argue theContinue 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
By Linett Morven, Domestic Affairs Correspondent Dame Orla Winthrop is not what most expect from a Keeper of the Archives. Brisk, tall, and quick to correct a misquoted date, she runs the Royal Record Hall like a monastery crossed with a beehive: quiet, precise, and humming with importance. “History isContinue Reading
By Celwyn Vant, Education Desk Banners fluttered across the campus green, bells rang from the stone tower, and the Chancellor himself addressed a crowd of robed scholars, students, and wandering sheep as St. Leo the Great University marked its first official Convocation this past week. Founded 200 years ago, theContinue Reading