St.Calenda's Wandering Pageant, Odeum & Lunar Fair

Anno Domini 1094

Places of Interest and the Dwellers Within

St.Calenda's Wandering Pageant, Odeum & Lunar Fair is made up of numerous locations, great and small, that make up the warp and weft of not only the day-to-day entertainments, but of the behind the scenes pageant members lives, loves and tribulations. The pageant comprises seventy odd wagons and half as many tents, but only twenty or so seem to have enough significance to count as landmarks in the nebulous night-scape of this traveling circus. Many of the locales serve as focal points for pageant-goers and pageant-folk alike.

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Athenaeum

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Mystics

Bekhet -- Lady "Beckett" has been with the pageant for as long as anyone can remember and is of Egyptian origin. She is the most senior and powerful of the mystics, often serving as a mentor to other will-workers and is the longtime companion of Bes the Dwarf.

Rambert -- The Oneiromancer {Spaniard} [New Member]

[[ |200px]] Sahak -- The Conjurer {Armenian vampire of the Ravnos}

[[ |200px]] Songül -- The Cartomancer {A Turkish woman who reads the fortunes of her clients in the cards.} [New Member]

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Bestiarium

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Beasts

• -- Arkadi -- This old, brown bear male, dances and performs tricks for the visitor's children. He possesses an uncanny knack for knowing what tricks the children want. While he is a brown bear, his fur is mostly gray and no one knows how old he is, except perhaps for Bogdan the Russian. Both Arkadi and Bogdan were recruited into the pageant by Vulo Vodach when the pageant last came to Veliky Novgorod in the lands of the Rus.

• -- Phython -- A serpent over twenty-five feet long, the pattern of its black and gold scales are unheard of in the known world. In the darkest hours of the night, it can sometimes be heard to speak with sibilant hissings in alien dead tongues. All those save its blind handlers must take care to avoid its hypnotic gaze and more than one pageant member has perished, swallowed whole by the dark serpent. Phython has been an exhibit of the pageant for as long as anyone can remember.

Beast Handlers

[[ |200px]] Bogdan -- The Bear Trainer -- {A man of the Rus} -- See: Arkadi

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Dwarves

Bes -- The Elder Dwarf -- {The Egyptian dwarf named Bes has been with the Pageant as long as anyone can remember.}

[[ |200px]] Spiuni -- A small carny, usually, but not always a child or dwarf, who spots and marks out those who have money to spend. {Romanii} []

Freaks

Giulia -- The Bearded Lady {Roman woman}

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Giants

• -- Einarr the Giant

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Canvas of the Mother

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Acrobats

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Archers

• -- Hrothgar -- The pageant's chief archer and knife thrower.

Jugglers

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Serpent Handler

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Sword Swallower

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Court of the Erlking

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The court of the Erlking is the least definable structure in the pageant, it serves as both boundary and border with the outside world. A double wall of heavily stained canvas serves to delineate the pageant from its mundane physical location, and thus the court possesses an indistinct liminal character, it is also a distinct if ephemeral place where the fae who travel with the pageant gather together in imitation of their long lost Arcadia.

Fae Courtiers

200px Astarte -- The Autumn Queen

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House of the Profligate

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Retinue of Venus

200px Polyphonte -- The Bestialite {A Greek woman who has traveled with the Pageant for some time.}

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The Erotes

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• -- Armen -- Armen is the youthful procurer of the Erotes and a inveterate flatterer.
• -- Nahum -- A beautiful Syrian brother and sister fused together by the dark powers of the pageant after they attempted to escape, they now serve as the camp's hermaphroditic prostitute.
• -- Rasmus -- A Danish youth whose athletic body and sexual stamina make him the work-horse of the Erotes, but whose own love never seems to be fulfilled. [New Member]
• -- Sámi -- A warrior of Finland whose love of sweet southern wines and lust for more refined pleasures drew him into the pageant and he now serves the retinue as both protector and jailer.
• -- Aldo -- The Retinue's latest acquisition, Aldo's child's body and adult attitude make him a valuable commodity and he also serves to control his more emotional brother Theo. [New Member]
• -- Theotleip -- The second of the Retinue's most recent additions, his athletic body, boyish ways and beauty serve to make him a jewel among the Erotes whose services do not come cheap. A favorite among homosexual pedophiles, he serves as the most recent honey-pot of the Erotes. [New Member]
• -- Frater Eadweard -- The Saxon priest has only just joined the Erotes, but he has quickly come to fill the recently vacant role of "Hymenaeus", an ancient position long held by an older male, usually a priest of one sort or another who officiates the acts of "sacred prostitution" giving these pleasures a acceptability. [New Member]

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Lodge of the Dervishes

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Dancers

Salome -- Wife of the Serpent -- {} []

Sunngifu -- The Wolf-dancer -- {A young Saxon woman married to Eadwulf} [New Member]

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Mithraeum

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Brotherhood of the Blade

Arnviðr -- The Varagarian {}

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Eadwulf -- The Huntsman {A Saxon hunter} [New Member]

The Four Horsemen

Obviously, the four horsemen are equestrians, and as such they stand well above the other pageant performers because they are warriors who ride, rather than walk.

[[ |200px]] Vulo Vodach -- Leader {A Bulgarian man in his middle years.}

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[[ |200px]] Cengiz -- Trick Rider {Turkish} [New Member]

Sons of Hercules (strongmen)

[[ |200px]] Giovanni -- Gianni as the Venetian Hercules prefers to be called, is the eldest of the strongmen, a first among equals and the mentor of all new strongmen; he is well liked by all. {Venetian} []

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Odeum

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The Odeum serves as the locus of all dramatic and musical performances. But like many places within the domain of the pageant, it is amorphous, being made up of a dozen pageant-wagons that serve as a mobile stage upon which performances are streamed to the masses as the wagons pass through village or town. Alternatively, the pageant wagons can set up in a fixed location, in which case the wagons form up into a circle, cutting out sights and sounds of the greater pageant and delineating the circled wagons as a magical-mysterious place called the "Theater".

Actors

[[ |200px]] Mervyn -- The Chief Narrator {Welsh}

[[ |200px]] Gennadi -- The Heroic Knight and fair brother of Semyon, the Blackguard {Russian}

[[ |200px]] Semyon -- The Blackguard, the dark brother of Gennadi, the Heroic Knight {Russian}

[[ |200px]] Martijn Drappoline -- The Pauper Prince

[[ |200px]] Egbert Appolonius -- The Mad Merchant

[[ |200px]] Sybilla Raimundte -- Empress Rosalind

[[ |200px]] Hannelore Goldschmidt -- Beautiful Princess

Minstrels

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[[ |200px]] Okropir Friedhelm -- Drummer/percussionist {} []

[[ |200px]] Julian Fabel -- Pan Pipes/ Dancer/ Dancing Rat trainer {} []

Playwright

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Pavilion of Asclepius

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Therapeutae (healers)

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Blagoy -- Barbar-Surgeon {Bulgarian} []

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[[ |200px]] Godiva -- The Maiden Crone {A Saxon wise-woman of Wifilisburg} [New Member] Shanty of Fools [[]] The lodgings and performance venue of the pageant's collective of fools, the shanty is a ramshackle structure formed of spare sackcloth, rope, odds and ends and fallen logs. While distinctly unimpressive as seen from without, once inside the Shanty visitors and pageant-folk who are not fools themselves become lost in a maze of clothbound corridors whose dimensions far exceed normal expectations. But the Shanty is not a maze, so much as a labyrinth which leads the brave ever deeper towards a central chamber called the "Tabernacle". All along the corridors of the shanty-labyrinth are recesses in which scenes are played out for the paying visitors and for those who trespass within the private sanctum of the fools. These scenes are supposed to serve as a series of morality plays meant to remind the visitor-folk of their ethical and spiritual obligations and what might await them after death should they they fail to keep faith. But, all-too-often, these performances do the opposite, revealing the holes in medieval life and presenting the visitor with a distinct emotional or moral dilemma which they must solve if they wish to escape the Shanty by reaching the central "Tabernacle of Fools". All too often, however, visitors who enter are never seen again and it is assumed by those within their communities that they simply ran away with the pageant. Tabernacle of Fools Fools Nabil ibn Saqr -- The King Fool {Persian} Wan Lady -- ' {} Hellequin -- ' {} Tent of Dionysus This tent is the central meeting point for pageant-folk and pageant-goers, a place of refuge that is both commissary and watering-hole, but it is also the axis around which the pageant community revolves. Drudges Sender -- The Jew {Sender is a Alexandrian Jew and serves as the the pageant's treasurer. He serves directly beneath Vulo Vodach and publicly he is the second most important official of the pageant.} Rodolph -- The Mess sergeant of the pageant is a wide bodied Frank slowly going to flab. He joined the pageant during its sojourn in England after his discharge from the army of William the Conqueror. To his friends he is Rudy and his many lovers Rudy-Bear. {Frankish} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- Drover {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- Hosteler {} [] [[ |200px]] Maurizio -- The pageant's main handyman and the lead roustabout. {Florentine} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] Argont -- The Hammer as Argont is called, is an elderly mass of muscle who serves as the pageant's smith. While there is no question of his skill at the forge, his origins lie in mystery, though some say he is from Crete or Cyprus. {} [] Divan -- The Finder {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] Storytellers Theodoric -- The Goth Yellow Tents [[]] Fire Eaters [[ |200px]] [[]] -- Drover {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- Hosteler {} [] [[ |200px]] [[]] -- ' {} [] Websites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_theatre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pageant_wagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Act_in_Palmyra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_play http://medievaltheatre13.blogspot.com/2010/05/movable-stage-pageant-wagon-by-lesley.html