Saturday, April 1, 2017

Matthias von Würzburg: Silver Wheel



Emperor Ioannes and Empress Honig,
Masters of the Moon and the Sun,
Which shine their light with joy;
The stars that maintain their courses,
The clouds that bear the showers of rain
And the waters that pour downwards;
The fields that adorn themselves with flowers,
The forest that is covered with foliage;
The beasts that live according to their kind
And the song of the birds that is beautiful.
Everything that has order on the material plane.
Yet there is another plane in which We exist
The Aether Realms that reach beyond the mortal scope.
Trawling through the stars for abstracts,
Fraught experiments that are recorded and shared;
Documents with access across this unsubstantial plane,
Communal knowledge accessible to all
That reports knowledge to Us and all Our populace.
Those that record Our communication, and Our lore.
That We are capable only of being what We are, and We see that
Our Matthias von Würzburg has been working most diligently,
Directing, maintaining and sustaining Our AEther Realms for Us;
Let Us now take this excellent man to the Order of the Silver Wheel.
Done this day at the Spring Coronation of Ioannes and Honig
On April, the First, Anno Societatis LI,
in the Barony of Dragonship Haven


Calligraphy and Illumination by Triona MacCasky 
Silver Wheel for Matthias von Würzburg
Based on the The Annolied or Song of Anno, an 11th-century poem in Early Middle High German.
Given at the Spring Coronation of Iones and Honig