Dithend
Bailiff: Reeve
Liege: Sir Jarrak Vaén, Lord of Feneven
Díthend is a hamlet of ten households lying between Fenéven and the hundred moot, Asólade. There is no mill at Díthend. Though Díthend is held by Clan Vaén of Fenéven, a 25 minute walk away, villagers use the miller at Asólade (a 35 minute walk in the opposite direction), because flour quality is better. Sir Jarrak Vaén deals with local disputes at the hallmoot in his manor. For most of the year Díthend is a quiet village. A few folk from Feneven, Bromeleon, and Bory travel through on their way to the hundred moot or Jédes market, and about once every tenday wagonloads of copper from the Ôrofal mine pass through, also bound for Jedes. Díthend lies on the pilgrims’ route between Jédes and Brómelèon. Once each year it witnesses the great procession of pilgrims heading to, and five days later returning from, the abbey.
Yeoman
Shortbow
Nyal of Karlis has won the archery contest at the Jédes horse fair for the past three years. The prize is a fine new bow, so with each win Nyal has auctioned off his old bow.
Metalsmith £££
Walt of Ardin is the archetypal metalsmith: tall, muscular, and black-bearded. He is also, surprisingly, a fine falsetto. Walt lives with his wife, their three teenage daughters, and an apprentice, Foram of Garst, the son of the metalsmith at Skáist. Walt’s second daughter, the ribald and coquettish 14-year-old Maryss, frightens Foram, who is the same age but much less mature. Walt’s youngest son is apprenticed in Sentwyn, in Daynôra Hundred, but is expected to return home in the summer. The eldest, to his father’s displeasure, joined Walt’s brother in the constable’s guard at Jédes [Jédes pp23 & 25].
Woodward
Harys of Mahon is jealous of the commoners’ privileges and works to ensure that they do not exceed their rights. Although, strictly, this is not part of his duties, Harys believes that the commoners should not be left to police themselves. Harys is one man fighting a centuries-old system that he considers to be corrupt, but which most people believe works. He is well known, and despised, by the local commoners.
Reeve
Tamys of Kostal is a commoner of Tarwyn. In his early twenties and recently married, Tamys lives with his wife and his widowed mother. His father collapsed and died last year during an argument with Harys of Mahon. Tamys was confirmed as commoner at the last assize. He is an implacable enemy of Harys, and few moots take place without one complaining about the other.
Liege: Sir Jarrak Vaén, Lord of Feneven
Díthend is a hamlet of ten households lying between Fenéven and the hundred moot, Asólade. There is no mill at Díthend. Though Díthend is held by Clan Vaén of Fenéven, a 25 minute walk away, villagers use the miller at Asólade (a 35 minute walk in the opposite direction), because flour quality is better. Sir Jarrak Vaén deals with local disputes at the hallmoot in his manor. For most of the year Díthend is a quiet village. A few folk from Feneven, Bromeleon, and Bory travel through on their way to the hundred moot or Jédes market, and about once every tenday wagonloads of copper from the Ôrofal mine pass through, also bound for Jedes. Díthend lies on the pilgrims’ route between Jédes and Brómelèon. Once each year it witnesses the great procession of pilgrims heading to, and five days later returning from, the abbey.
Yeoman
Shortbow
Nyal of Karlis has won the archery contest at the Jédes horse fair for the past three years. The prize is a fine new bow, so with each win Nyal has auctioned off his old bow.
Metalsmith £££
Walt of Ardin is the archetypal metalsmith: tall, muscular, and black-bearded. He is also, surprisingly, a fine falsetto. Walt lives with his wife, their three teenage daughters, and an apprentice, Foram of Garst, the son of the metalsmith at Skáist. Walt’s second daughter, the ribald and coquettish 14-year-old Maryss, frightens Foram, who is the same age but much less mature. Walt’s youngest son is apprenticed in Sentwyn, in Daynôra Hundred, but is expected to return home in the summer. The eldest, to his father’s displeasure, joined Walt’s brother in the constable’s guard at Jédes [Jédes pp23 & 25].
Woodward
Harys of Mahon is jealous of the commoners’ privileges and works to ensure that they do not exceed their rights. Although, strictly, this is not part of his duties, Harys believes that the commoners should not be left to police themselves. Harys is one man fighting a centuries-old system that he considers to be corrupt, but which most people believe works. He is well known, and despised, by the local commoners.
Reeve
Tamys of Kostal is a commoner of Tarwyn. In his early twenties and recently married, Tamys lives with his wife and his widowed mother. His father collapsed and died last year during an argument with Harys of Mahon. Tamys was confirmed as commoner at the last assize. He is an implacable enemy of Harys, and few moots take place without one complaining about the other.
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