Bestiarium

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

Description

The Bestiarium is the medieval equivalent of a zoo, which is housed, fed, and cared for by beast-handlers whose sole purpose it is to keep the animals alive and healthy for the wonder of the audience. The beasts and their handlers live side-by-side and are mutually dependent, indeed sometimes its difficult to know which of the animals within bestiarium are for spectacle and which are truly the handlers.

Beasts & Handlers

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. -- {} -- See: Bogdan

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. -- {}

Nagendra -- The Serpent Handler {} []

Bogdan -- The Bear Trainer -- {A man of the Rus} -- See: Arkadi

Garsea -- Apprentice Bear Trainer {Northern Spain}

Joukahainen -- The Beast Healer, known by his diminutive Jouko, joined the pageant at the same time as his friend Sámi who was seduced into the Erotes of Venus. He possesses a gift for handling beasts. {Finland} [New Member]

Wilkin -- Fodder Boy {England}