Alesen

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Alesen
Rethem
Map grid C6
NameAlesen
TypeManor
ShireHohnam
HundredEmesa
HolderTelmen Kobin Otorna
LiegeMeketa Tolmey Wolkene
Acres2,700
Land Quality1.08
Households52

Alesen is a fief in the Emesa Hundred, in the Hohnamshire of the Kingdom of Rethem. It is held by Telmen Glana Rekira who, while only 29 years old, has held it for 8 years. He is very ambitious and had hoped to be raised to Meketa of Torkat when its holder died on the Scarlet Ribbon in 718. He was assured by Meketa Tolmey that he could expect such an elevation so was disgusted when Meketa Halan’s candidate, Bradas Sekal, was chosen. His disappointment has led him to consider making overtures to Halan. Every winter there’s a chance that Bron Zarnist will be ‘carried by Agrik’s firey breath to Balgashang’ and Glana will not countenance a second disappointment!

The Telmen’s mother, the Lady Grulela, is sometimes honoured by a visit from the Akarata’s sisters who have no other gentlewoman of their generation with whom to cackle and plot. While the manor’s priest, Moren Lotur, puts up with the ‘old witch’, he disapproves of the Telmen’s young sister believing that she is an improper presence among a celibate order.

Glana works the manor hard. As well as the normal calendar of work he has set his peasantry to reclaim some fields on the far side of the Alerien. They have not been worked since before the Warriors arrived. The reeve, Berden, tells him that this extra acreage will soon be ready for the plough. Free farmers of clans Hannaeus and Forganae live at the hamlet of Sedur a short walk to the north east where they work their own fields but also harvest timber for their liege. The Telmen is considering asking them to bid for some of the extra acres.

Some of the niviks carrying goods between Golotha and Tormau extend their voyage to Alesen once or twice a season. The manor’s simple dock provides a safe and sheltered anchorage compared to Hask. As well as goods they sometimes bring passengers such as the apothecary Aradis of Bidrin. He spent a few weeks travelling around the hundred before settling in Alesen and is the only non-clerical apothecary in Emesa Hundred. He has a regular stall at Emesa market from which he sells his poultices and remedies.

Another recent arrival is a clothier from Dasen intent on making his fortune from the coats of the goats that graze the dunes to the north. With Glana’s permission he has taught the local women how to comb out the goat hair and prepare it for spinning into fibre. It remains to be seen whether this enterprise will be a success.

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