The History of the Brethren Courts

The 5th Brethren Court
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The 6th Brethren Court
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The 7th Brethren Court
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The "First" 8th Brethren Court
It was January, 2013. The 7th Brethren Court, at this point, had had a lengthy tenure of inactivity. Only a few of the lords from the 7th Court were still active, among whom Ned Edgewalker was included. Ned, realizing that the 7th Brethren Court was inactive, decided that his months of planning for an 8th Court would finally come to fruition. On January 24th, 2013, Ned Edgewalker formally abolished the 7th Brethren Court and, in its place, established the 8th Brethren Court.

For his lords, Ned first seeked lords from previous courts. Ned was first able to recruit Jim Logan, King of the 6th Court, and David McMartin, Keeper of the Code for the 7th Court. Besides that, Ned recruited Richard Cannonwalker, Davy Gunfish, the King of Poland, Keira Kinover-Mar, Jason Clubheart, Jason Yelloweagle, Christopher Crane, and Albert Spark, King of Romania.

At this point, the court was all in order to begin courtly proceedings, including holding meetings and electing courtly positions. However, Ned abruptly took an unexpected tenure of absence, sending the court into a state of chaos. Internal disorder and confliction between the members caused Richard Cannonwalker to leave the court on March 13th. This court never even elected a Pirate King, Pirate Prince, Keeper of the Code, or Bearer of the Pieces of Eight due to its instability.

The "Second" 8th Brethren Court
On April 4th, Ned Edgewalker returned from his unexpected absence. Ned returned to find his court in a state of disorder, seeing that the court was unable to get anything done without his guidance. After being urged by the members and Richard to fix the issues that the Court was having, Ned decided to completely revamp the Court.

Ned decided to keep some lords of the previous 8th Court and leave others out. The roster selected by Ned ended up including Jim Logan, David McMartin, Richard Cannonwalker, Edgar Wildrat, Christopher Crane, and Charles Crestsilver. However, an issue arose; the court required an eighth lord. On April 5th, a contest was designed to decide the eighth lord, similar to the contest to decide one of the lords of the 7th Court. However, due to only one person wanting to participate, Johnny Sea Slasher won by default.

After a couple of weeks in the Court, on April 22nd, Ned announced that court elections would begin. This meant that the positions of Pirate King, Pirate Prince, Keeper of the Code, and Bearer of the Pieces of Eight would begin. After eight days of voting, on April 30th, the winners were determined: Edgar Wildrat would be the Bearer of the Pieces of Eight, Johnny Sea Slasher would be Keeper of the Code, David McMartin would be Pirate Prince, and Richard Cannonwalker would be Pirate King.

The first month and a half was fairly slow for the Court. On June 11th, Richard decided that making alliances with other roleplaying entities would be best for the Court. On June 11th, Richard made alliances with Sweden, the Ottoman Empire, and Savoy (a country led by Ned Edgewalker). Then on June 16th, an alliance with Austria was formed. Sweden was pulled out of their alliance by Albert Spark on June 14th, but Queen Elizabeth reinstated the alliance on June 28th.

The month of June also brought many line-up changes to the Court. Edgar Wildrat suddenly departed without a word spoken, and on June 11th was expelled from the Court. Edgar was replaced by Marc Cannonshot, who also assumed his position as Bearer of the Pieces of Eight until his departure on June 30th. Charles Crestsilver was temporarily removed after an unexpected absence and replaced with Keira Kinover on June 18th, although he returned to claim back his spot on June 21st. When Marc departed from the Court on June 30th, however, Keira was brought into the Court for a second time. On top of all of this, on June 18th, Jeremiah Garland was voted as yet another Pirate Lord in the Court.

On June 17th, the Court entered a state of tensions with the nation of Romania. this was due to King Albert Spark of Romania declaring a state of high tensions with Savoy, a Court-allied nation led by Lord Ned Edgewalker. This lasted until June 22nd, when Romania was merged with the Ottoman Empire. After this, the Ottoman Empire entered a state of high tensions with the Court.

On July 22nd, after his whereabouts being unknown for over a year, Johnny "Shark" Turner returned to the Caribbean. He was greeted by the 8th Court in his return and voted in to join the Court the day after his return. Additionally, when Johnny "Shark" Turner was able to reclaim the Barbary Coast, it and the Court became allies on July 24th. Additionally, on July 23rd, the Joseon Empire and the Court became allies due to King David Yellowfish of the Joseon Empire and King Richard Cannonwalker of the 8th Court being close friends.

At this point, the Court had a very extensive military. The Court had, at its disposal, The Eco Warriors (led by Keira Kinover-Mar), The Outlanders (led by Richard Cannonwalker), Barbary Elites (led by Johnny "Shark" Turner), Co. Sons of Liberty (led by Charles Crestsilver), and Hermit Rangers (led by Christopher Crane). However, on August 2nd, Richard Cannonwalker left the Court. This meant that David McMartin became Pirate King and that The Outlanders was no longer a Court-specified guild.

After Richard left, the Court began to lose activity. Turner was working on building his guild, but the members of the Court all had other things to focus on and as a result, the Court went inactive for a period. However, on September 12th, Richard Cannonwalker showed interest in rejoining the Court. David McMartin complied and made him Pirate King once again. On September 19th, PotCO closed, signifying the end of the 8th Brethren Court, marking it in history as the last Brethren Court; the end of an era.

The "Original" Brethren Court
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