Ice Dragon Thanks From the Baron and Baroness

-photo by Lori of Oriography

Over the years we have attended many Ice Dragons, as simple attendees helping a friend, to volunteering at troll and gold key, then as head of the guard and pursuivant / retainer. So we felt that there was not much the could surprise us about the event. However this year, our first year as Baron and Baroness we were proved wrong!

-Photo by Lori of Oriography

For the first time instead of looking at the event with eyes focused on the single job before us, not really seeing the rest of went on during the event, we had a chance to see it all and all of the hard work put into it.

It started on Friday when setup for the event began, watching members of the Barony and Society new and old, rushing around the armory offering a helping hand to anyone lugging totes, stringing ropes, and placing tables. No job was too big or too small in these people's eyes. A job that could have taken a day or two was done in hours, everyone leaving the site feeling good about the the next day and the challenges to come.

Saturday we were ready to be busy, our schedule packed with everything we could fit into it. courts, merchants, vigils, salons, pent, visiting everyone working hard in different areas of the site, we did not want to miss anything! As the day progressed we saw so many people having fun enjoying all of the activities the event had to offer and we had chances to share many of those moments with them as we traveled the site.

-photo by Michael Davis

However the other thing we saw, with eyes trained to see those doing services for our Barony and our Kingdom, were the people working hard so their friends could enjoy the day. The relatively new lady, sitting at troll, counting money, filling out papers and smiling with bright eyes at every person that stood in front of her. The cooks working hard in the basement, hot, tired, but somehow able to offer cookies and cheery hellos as we came to see what wonderful foods they had to offer the populace for the day. MOLs and Marshals on the list fields, forgoing a day of relaxing or fighting so that others could enjoy hitting each other with sticks, or poking a friend with steel. The heralds, guards, retainers running from place to place, sometimes standing for hours at points, Happy to help the assorted royalty and baronage as they went about their duties for the day. Then the gentles that who were already tired and worn out from the long day, helped to disassemble and clean the site once the event was complete.

-photo by Fridrikr Tomasson

These were just some of the services we saw during the day, services that showed what makes our Barony and Kingdom so wonderful.

We want to thank you all, everyone that helped to make The Passing of the Ice Dragon the spectacular event that it was. We can never thank all of you enough, but we certainly plan to try!