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TIMELINE

EAC = Era of the Accords

Godwin St. Loe forms Spirit Pact with the Spirit of the Great Sea YEAR 4937

Signing of the Accords
YEAR1 EAC

War of the Seas and the Total Destruction of the River-City Peoples
YEAR 2 EAC

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Birth of Godwin St. Loe
YEAR 4899

Victory over the Shadow King
YEAR 4939

Reconvening of the Accords, Agreement of Perpetual Peace for the family of St. Loe
YEAR 2 EAC

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"St. Loe (Sinleau) was a Knight born to a family of no reckoning during the Second Ring Wars. It came to pass that after a battle at sea he was captured on the Island which would come to be Isle St. Loe. His captors, a now long forgotten family of Tree Spirit Aligned, sought to make an example of him, and tied him to pillar on the beach and left him for fourteen days and nights with the promise that death would follow. St. Loe begged for help from any being, human or spirit or animal, that would listen and save him. Only one answered, and so St. Loe and the Spirit of the Great Sea formed the honoured pacts with one another.

The Sea came to St. Loe's rescue and laid waste to his captors in one colossal wave that washed over the land. When the tide rolled back, St. Loe was the only one left alive of those on the shore. After finding his freedom, St. Loe journeyed back to the mainland to retrieve his wife, four children, and other family members, to bring to the Island which has been the seat of power for the family ever since."

- a history of the great families and wars in the years from 167-400

"... The full events and causes that led to the division of the royal position into two distinct titles in the Isle of St. Loe have been much debated, but its beginning point cannot be doubted - the Madness of King Rothveki, and his subsequent assassination by his own daughter, the then Princess Inesa. It was the soon after made Queen Inesa, who first spoke of, and then it seems solely put in place the framework of, a joint rulership rather than single rulership divided by the first two heirs of the kingdom. What possessed her to make that choice ultimately and establish it in the form she did, will never be completely known as it was well noted that by the end, madness had well begun to take her to have provided full clarity. But it seems to have been fuelled by fear of what her father had become, and given her state when she mysteriously fell from the battlements of the Keep, perhaps she was wise to fear it happening.

However, her doing so, has after her death, been heralded as her greatest legacy, and indeed, though violent, proved that the rulers of St. Loe, would be held to account - but only ever by their own."

- Rulership in the Fourteen Kingdoms and 21 Principalities, a companion's guide.

"Who does not know the rights of the sailor in these isles of ours! Why, is it not our own mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles who show us that we all must at least once a year give a tithe to the sea? To those far-off people on their remote isle, that the sea should always be kind to us? We should all rejoice in our small gifts put onto ships and sent away, for such great a boon in return as a benevolent Sea-Father can never be undervalued, and certainly that we can smile for it, when no one who calls that miserable island home has ever so much as donned a grin!"

"When journeying across the Great Sea for any length, it is respectful to come to call at the Isle of St. Loe to receive their blessings in person, and bring first with you two gifts. One is for the children of the royal family, and the second is for the people of St. Loe. One must never give gifts directly to the sitting King and Queen, or their subsequent spouses. They are to be gifted indirectly, only, on behalf of their people and family, as in ceremony, the First and Second Child, as they are called, are to have no desire but to grant everything to their loved ones, and such is the connection between rulers and common folk, that all in the lands are counted as dear to each other. This being the reason for their custom of calling each other Dau-Sea and Sau-Sea. Or Daughter-Sea and Son-Sea. They are all, first and foremost, from the greatest to the least, children fo the Sea-Father.

But never forget why instead of King and Queen, the rulers call themselves First and Second Child. They are the most immediate to the Great Spirit himself."

" - They are a miserable bunch, but the drink, the drink could make a seeing man blind and a blind man see! In this author's opinion, perhaps the people of St. Loe may never feel an ounce of joy, but every last one can drink you under the table and dance on top of it while you have long given up ever hoping to catch up."

"... This brings us to the end of the chapter on the Isle St. Loe, and to it the last and most important advice this author can give: never, under any circumstance, take your weapons off your ship. To do so is to slight the peace that even the lowest commoner of St. Loe takes great pride in. Or worse, incurring the wrath of the Deer-Striders, and you will know you have angered them, by the spear in your belly. In no lands is violence taken as seriously, as those who are the most fearsome indeed."

- Travelling the Isles of the Ring Lands, a practical understanding.