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The exiles are part of a broader TP that will run until approximately July or August 2011. At open of play, it has been approximately eighty turns since the Exiles first arrived on their set of islands: long enough that all the original exiles are now dead and gone, leaving no one behind who remembers life on the rest of Pern.

The information on these pages is intended to make it easier to get into the mindset of these exiles - and to let us keep an enduring record of the RP that eventuates! Of course, not everything has been pre-planned, so there is plenty of room for innovation and world-building.

Questions, as always, can be aimed at the High Reaches Weyr admin team: K'del, Leova, Taikrin and Tiriana.

History

Isolation and insulation have long provided High Reaches Hold a certain distance from the rest of the continent, allowing them to not be as uninfluenced by other, far easier accessible areas and Holds and the latitude to enjoy life as they please without interference. As if Hold autonomy wouldn't have allowed that in the first place.

But, occasionally, the Holder Conclave will intervene when circumstances become particularly dire. But even that takes some time, evidence, and proof.

This was the stage set when Lord Beradin of High Reaches Hold entered his latter turns. Having clung to the Holdership well into his eighties, an old man's paranoia and greed overcame the best of men (of which Beradin wasn't really from the start - average really) and while the major Hold's manor thrived, the rest of the Hold as well as its beholden areas began to decline rapidly. This was of concern to a group of Beradin's distant cousins who, being enterprising individuals, realized not only would Thread be falling soon, but Beradin's avarice tendencies had been passed down to his heir and surely the Hold couldn't survive another 8 decades of this kind of rule.

Among them, the most charismatic and bring-togethery-voice was that of Henret, the eldest son of Beradin's half-brother, holder of River Bend. Slowly working his way through much of his relations, a growing faction of those dissatisfied with Beradin's rule began to emerge early in the 191st turn. There were debates as to whether to bring this up to the Holder Conclave, with the evidence of minor holds wrung dry of goods and further outlying cotholds turning to holdlessness instead as paying Beradin's tithes were becoming too strenuous. But a combination of ambitious and calculating minds as well as the rational logic that if Beradin were replaced, his replacement (the oldest son of Reaches) would be no better prevailed and they decided to do things _their_ way.

It started with the minor holds politely but distinctly lessening their tithes of their own accord, cutting from what Beradin desired by at least 25%, and then continued with the minor holders (again) politely declining Beradin's "requests" for them to join him and his family for winter celebrations at the major hold.

It continued throughout the turn, until Beradin's heir, suspicious, began to investigate, sending spies who finally infilitrated the rebellion and reported the overall plan back to the Lord: that by the end of the 192nd turn, Lord Beradin and his family would be overthrown and replaced by (at the time) Henret. Beradin and those loyal to him devised their own plan and rounded up all the instigators, having no qualms in bringing them before a much irritated Holder Conclave. No Lord Holder wants to think of their minor holders rising up against them, the news of which spread about Pern could spell disaster for not a few of these Holders.

But at the same time, there was an acknowledgement among the more rational minds of the Conclave that there were justifiable reasons for such measures, even if the execution of which was poor.

The decision to exile the rebels along with their entire families, stamping out the branched out Bloodlines, was easy. A detachment of the Weyrleaders' wing from High Reaches Weyr was requested to do the deed, and sworn to secrecy as they ferried men, women, and children out to the one of the most distant and large western islands.

What to do with Beradin was not, and the Harpers involved in the very quiet, very secret first trial were utilized in the investigation of the rebel's allegations.

In the end, Beradin along with his first son were relieved of their Holdership and heirdom. The first son was granted River Bend, as long as no signs of abuse was discovered while Beradin was allowed the option to retire graciously at Nabol. His second son, a man of very little distinction and untrained in the ways of Holdership, stepped up.

Somehow, this has remained a secret for turns. The Holders involved not wishing to breathe of this even to their sons out of fear. The Harpers involved, realizing the implications this might have for the stability of Pern, kept quiet with no record trace remaining. The dragonriders involved not knowing the reasons for this exile, but happy to make a penny at the end of a long and trying Interval.

But there are pockets here and there of could-be knowledge: those men and their families who somehow escaped capture, those children of the captured ferretted away by loyal servents, and one tiny note in the Weyr's tithing ledger that seems odd, but dismissable unless you knew what you were looking at.

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