Great-Grandfather's history:
Your great-grandfather died some time shortly before your grandfather was knighted.
Your Great-grandfather's history ends here. He amassed 1170 Glory.
Grandfather's history:
Your Grandfather started out with 1170 Glory.
Year 439:
This is a typical year for its era: The Saxons raid heavily but are driven off by the noble knights of Britain.
Of special note is the fact that an heir is born into your family some time during this year — your father, eldest son of your grandfather.
Fought at the Battle of Carlion. (30) Survived.
Gain Passion: Hate (Irish): 9.
Year 440:
During this year, King Constantin is murdered by one of his own guards.
Served garrison duty and got killed by Pictish raiders. (20)
Your Grandfather's history ends here. He amassed 1220 Glory!
Father's history:
Your Father started out with 1122 Glory.
Year 464:
In this year, your father marries to procure an heir (rather than for love). He is fortunate in that his own father was favored by the Earl of Salisbury, and that there are many heiresses now, in the wake of the Night of Long Knives, needing protection. He marries a widow with a manor of her own, who, thanks to her former husband, also has a modicum of Glory before she remarries (which thus accrues to your father).
Married. (25)
Year 465:
Vortigern, with his Saxons, marches back and forth across Britain, extracting tribute and plunder. Many more Britons fiee the land. Your father, a young knight, remains in his lands, tends to his manor, and waits with his lord. Vortigern escapes from the Saxons and takes refuge in Gomeret, attempting to build a fortress. The youthful Merlin makes his appearance and begins his career here.
You are born.
Years 466-467:
Aurelius Ambrosius, son of the former King Constantin and brother of Constans, lands in Hampshire with an army from Brittany. He carries a great banner with a red dragon upon it. All across the land, discontented nobles muster their armies and join him. Vortigern seeks to escape, but his Saxon allies go back home to Kent, and many other allies desert him. After besieging a portion of Vortigern’s army at Carlion, Aurelius Ambrosius marches through the entire island, accepting the submission of those loyal to Vortigern.
Fought at the Siege of Carlion (45)
Year 468:
Aurelius Ambrosius and his army pursue Vortigern and besiege him in his new castle on Mount Snowdon. A battle ensues, at which Vortigern is killed and his army scattered. Aurelius Ambrosius summons the High Council, and they elect him High King. He takes the title of Pendragon (“high dragon” or “head dragon”), derived from his great battle banner.
Fought at the Battle of Snowdon. (60)
Years 469-472:
Many Saxons come over from the Continent and settle in Kent under their king, Hengest. High King Aurelius Ambrosius maintains an unsteady peace with the Saxons, Irish, and Picts, despite their raiding. His younger brother, Uther, makes a name for himself as a great warrior in countering these raids and leading picked warriors on raids into enemy territory.
Gained Glory in fighting against Saxons. (50)
Year 473:
The Saxons, confident of victory, march into the Thames Valley. King Aurelius Ambrosius raises an army to resist, but loses the battle in a major Saxon victory.
Fought at the Battle of Windsor. (45) Survived.
Gain Passion: Hate (Saxons): 12.
Years 474-476:
The Saxons of Kent roam and pillage the land. Only fortified places are safe, and the peasants suffer terribly.
Served garrison duty and survived. (25)
Year 477:
Another Saxon king, Ælle, lands in southern Britain with a large army and takes over the area. Many of the peasants fiee, but others are captured and enslaved. Ælle renames the land South Saxony, or Sussex. Aurelius Ambrosius marches with his army to oppose the foe, who is reinforced at the last moment by the Saxons from Kent. Ambrosius is lucky to escape with his army. The Saxons remain.
Years 478-479:
For years, Aurelius Ambrosius has been building a fieet of ships in the ports of his western lands. In this year, he musters his army and sets sail, sweeping around the southern coast, where he destroys the fieets of the Saxons in Britain. Then he sails to the Continent, destroying all the hostile shipping as he goes. The British army lands in Frisia, doing great damage to the Saxons there, and winning a battle against the barbarians. The Saxons in Britain begin vicious raiding in retaliation.
Served garrison duty. Fought in Saxon raids on Salisbury. (100) Survived.
Year 480:
An army of Saxons sails up the Port River into Salisbury. While planning for the battle, Aurelius Ambrosius is poisoned by a false doctor. Despite his illness, Ambrosius marches with Uther against the enemy, whom they meet at Menevia. Ambrosius confronts the foe while Uther takes his army around to the Saxons’ rear and cuts them off from their ships, attacking them with great vigor. It is a great victory for the British, but Ambrosius is killed in the fighting.
Fought at the battle of Salisbury (at Menevia) (270) Survived.
Your father attends the funeral of High King Aurelius Ambrosius, who is interred with great ceremony and sorrow in the Giants’ Dance (Stonehenge). Afterward, the High Council meets and unanimously elects Uther to be the new Pendragon (100)
Years 481-483:
The Saxons are relatively quiet during this time, with small bands raiding here and there but no armies marching. It is reported that many of their women and children have now settled in their lands.
Served garrison duty and survived. Saw little or no combat.
Year 484:
Another wave of Saxons arrives by boat and settles in the land of Diera. Aided by the Saxons in Britain and some rebellious northern Britons, they attack in the land of Malahaut. Their army defeats the northern defenders, then lays siege to the city of Eburacum. King Uther raises his army and hastens northward to join battle. However, King Uther, anxious to relieve the sorry inhabitants of Eburacum, is drawn into a trap and fights a desperate battle, from which he barely escapes with great loss. King Uther refuses to give up. With the battered remnants of his army, he sneaks north under cover of darkness, and falls upon the celebrating Saxons who are drunk on both victory and ale. The Saxons are slaughtered and Uther claims a great victory.
Fought at the Battle of Eburacum. (45) Died in battle or of wounds received there.
Gain Passion: Hate (Saxons): 9.
Your Father's history ends here. He amassed 1887 Glory!