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Walking the Spine: Across the Mountains of Tarnfell
The Spine of Tarnfell is not a path; it is a test. A narrow ribbon of ancient stone walks the clouds, winding across jagged peaks and wind-carved ridges where the sky feels close enough to touch and the earth feels a lifetime away. Travelers say the Spine is where the Kingdom stands tallest and where men discover whether they, too, can stand tall.Continue Reading
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Bracing the Cold: A Beginner’s Guide to Safe Cold Exposure
Cold exposure has a long pedigree in our parts: fishermen plunge for work and stoicism; lighthouse keepers scrub their faces at dawn; a handful of hardy souls swear that a quick dip sharpens the wits and steadies the hand.Continue Reading
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A Garden Shed That Outshines the House
Here in the back garden of Rupert Kettleby, a retired postman with a fondness for begonias, stands perhaps the most extraordinary shed in the Kingdom. The moment the door swings open, one is met with a dazzling sight: polished wood floors, silk draperies, and no fewer than two crystal chandeliers hanging from the rafters.Continue Reading
Religion & Faith
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When the Stranger Knocks: Christian Conscience, Borders and Belonging
There is a moment when the stranger knocks — at the gate, at the border, at the edge of the known — and the community within must reckon with two voices: one that says “Let them in”, and another that says “We must guard ourselves.” Continue Reading
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Saint Carlo Acutis: A Millennial Saint for a Digital Age
The canonization of Saint Carlo Acutis marks a moment of profound significance, particularly for the youth of Eyehasseen and for Catholic young people across the world. Born in 1991 and passing away in 2006, Carlo lived a life that in many ways mirrored that of today’s teenagers. He enjoyed video games, technology, and the ordinary rhythm of school life. Yet it was precisely within that ordinariness that sanctity revealed itself.Continue Reading
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The Passing of a Shepherd: Mourning a Pope, Reckoning a Legacy
The bells tolled from the great tower of St. Hildegarde’s at dawn, their deep voices echoing through valleys and across the rooftops of Eyehasseen, announcing the end of a pontificate and the passing of a man both beloved and bewildering.Continue Reading
History & Culture
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The Founding of Inverness: From Frontier Outpost to Royal Capital
The city of Inverness, now the political and cultural centre of Eyehasseen, began its existence under far humbler circumstances. Continue Reading
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Guardians of the Coast
And it is along these unpredictable waters that the Royal Coast Guard keeps its eternal vigil—an old service with a young spirit, made up of sailors who seem born with saltwater in their blood.Continue Reading
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The Great Northreach Famine and the Grain Riots
The Great Northreach Famine, which lasted from the late spring of 742 until the first harvest of 745, remains one of the most consequential domestic crises in the recorded history of Eyehasseen. It reshaped the administration of the northern provinces, altered the relationship between the Crown and the countryside, and left a legacy of both reform and trauma that endured for generations.Continue Reading
Travel & Leisure
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The Theatre of Lanterns
This is the Theatre of Lanterns, the oldest performing house in the Kingdom, and certainly the strangest. Some call it haunted. Some call it blessed. All agree it is unlike anything else in Eyehasseen.Continue Reading
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Whispers Beneath the Fen
The Elderfen Marshes have always carried a reputation for secrets. The reeds whisper even when there is no wind, the water moves even when nothing disturbs it, and the fog lingers long after sunrise as if reluctant to surrender whatever it hidesContinue Reading
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Portraits from the Tram: A Journey Down the Wind-Carved Coast
The Coastal Tram Line is older than half the villages it serves, a rattling silver spine running along the kingdom’s western edge. It hugs the cliffs, dives through marshy inlets, rattles across wooden trestles, and pauses in towns that smell of brine and rope and bread left to cool in sea-wind.Continue Reading
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Ambient Lute Fatigue
The Kingdom’s thriving musical culture has long been a source of communal pride, but the recent pre-festival rehearsal season has stretched public patience — and tendons — thin. Physicians report a widespread and mildly exasperating condition now known as Ambient Lute Fatigue (ALF).Continue Reading
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Goose-Induced Panic Strain
Goose-Induced Panic Strain – GIPS, according to the Ministry’s press briefing, arises when an unsuspecting person encounters one of the Kingdom’s notoriously territorial waterfowl and reacts with an instinctive, full-bodied spasm of alarm. Symptoms include spontaneous sprinting, awkward shouting, flailing of shopping baskets, and declarations such as “I didn’t bring bread! Why do you assume I brought bread?”Continue Reading
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Chronic Over-Tea Syndrome (COTS)
The Ministry of Health issued a gentle but unmistakably exasperated advisory this week regarding a rising condition now officially named Chronic Over-Tea Syndrome, or COTS — an ailment born not from deprivation or pestilence, but from the Kingdom’s long-standing and enthusiastic love affair with tea.Continue Reading
