Background for the World
The world and setting are (as I’ve mentioned in the backgrounds section of the basic rules) mostly unformed at the moment. A small amount however (the part that you’re in at the moment) is set. The LARP is set on a mid sized island called Springhaven Isle which is part of a large chain. Until recently the islanders made a frugal but fairly safe living farming the island and staying mostly out of people’s way. The island was used as a re-suply base by a large group of pirates and slavers who had a deal with the locals along the lines of ‘We dock here whenever we feel like it to rest and re-suply. You provide us with what we want at those points and we don’t burn your villages, kill whoever tries to resist and sell the rest of you to the highest bidder!’
However, a short while ago a revolt started on one of the slave ships approaching the island. The prisoners escaped, killed the crew and beached the ship on the island. The peasants, faced with the choice between defying the (currently absent) pirates or trying to capture and turn in the armed, bloody and angry looking strangers who had turned up in their village, agreed to a alliance against their old lords and began fortifying the old hill fort in the centre of the island. Soon after that the villages were burning. After a long and drawn out battle the pirates were driven off and their leader killed by one of the newcomers, however many were dead and yet more were badly wounded.
Amongst the fallen was Lord Aran Stormbrow, the old lord of the island and Father Paolo, his chief adviser and High Priest to the islands ancestors. A council of the surviving village elders was called at the fort along with representatives of the newcomers to try to make good the situation and plan for the future. A triumvirate was elected there to rule over the island and their first job is to prepare for war, for while this first pirate assault has been defeated it was but a small part of their fleet and the pirate kings attention is sure to turn this way soon…