Morrigan Clubfoot
- Award of Arms 2001
- Princess' Knott 2002
- Griffin's Flame 2002
- Order of the Rose Petal 2002 (Montengard A&S award)
- Jambe de Lion Aug 31 AS 38
- Tanista Nov 29 AS 38 / 2003 through Feb 28 AS 38 / 2004
- Princess Feb 28 AS 38 / 2004 through Aug 21 AS 39 / 2004
- Valorous Estate Aug 2004
- Viscountess 2004
- Princess' Knott 2005
- Avacal Iron Arrow 2005
- Order of the Griffin's Heart 2006
- Avacal Iron Arrow 2006
- Montengarde Champion of Arts and Sciences Jan 20 2007 through Jan 26 2008
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At the shire of Bitter End - Silver Arrow, 2005
Morrigan's Persona and achievements
Morrigan was born in the highlands of Scotland around 1220 to a noble, but poor family. She was educated by the local church (when she wasn’t skipping out and going hunting with her cousins) and learned a lot about wool. By the time she was ten, her parents wishing the best for their daughter (read- couldn’t put up with her anymore) sent her to France to be married off to some pimply-faced Gascon that smelled of compost and was more interested in books than girls. Her escort insisted at stopping off to pray at the some saint’s shrine, and that’s where Morrigan heard a shepard boy named Stephen preach about the Crusades, the infidels and how the Children of Christ could save the Holy Land.
Not being particularly concerned about the holy land, Morrigan decided that adventure was far more fun than marriage to a smelly Gascon, so she slipped out and joined the Children’s Crusade. It was a tough journey. Many children that accompanied them east died on the way but Morrigan kept herself alive with her sharp wit and hunting skills. Sadly, the ship they had sailed on was captured by Turkish Pirates and the children were sold. There she found herself auctioned off to her father, the benevolent and wise El Nahr, (also known as Master Hector of the Black Height) who's large, extended family welcomed her warmly, and she was renamed Bushra al Jaseri bint El Nahr, taught the gentle arts of poetry, dance and singing, calligraphy and ciphering, learned to like the baths, and the harder arts of riding and hunting with a bow from the back of a horse. El Nahr’s household was very rich, and unlike her homeland where the bow was considered a peasant’s weapon, all the Prophet’s people took up the bow. Highly decorated bows were given as gifts to Caliphs and the Sultan himself. Even the Sultan's noble Mother shot a bow inlaid with pearls!
To shoot well was considered a great skill, and she was encouraged in her practice. She was fascinated at the differences between the bows of her youth and the short, lethal bows of her new homeland. El Nahr was a benevolent patriarch and did not force his daughter to convert to the Ways of the Prophet, which freed her from many restrictions her Saracen cousins followed. She hunted freely, rode the Steppes without guide or escort. Still under the laws of the Prophet, all unmarried daughters upon living seven years withing their father's haram, were to be given their dowry and the option to leave, and thus found herself in Avacal....