Dragon's Hollow: History

History of Amtgard

The First Amtgard event was held on February 12, 1983. Sources differ on how many people were there, Nashomi's First Three Years page credits the event with 40 people being there. However, Tawnee Darkfalcon's 100 Weeks of Amtgard states that it was the first appearance of herself, Joella Starwatcher, and Ward Truestory; as well as Peter LaGrue. Amtgard itself was named after Matthew and Katy Amt, siblings who befriended LaGrue in his Dagorhir days.

It was from this small day of swinging a short sword and a small axe with a mostly photocopied Dagorhir rulebook, that Amtgard was born. Nashomi lists the first Qualifications as having been on March 23rd of that same year. Tawnee was the first Queen by right of arms

The flyer that started it all

arms and Joella was the first champion by virtue of having placed second in the tourney. The first five monarchs all earned their crowns by right of arms. The club voted September 12, 1987, 34 to 23 for election rather than trial by combat to choose the next monarch.

Peter Le Grue, also calling himself 'Sir Peter' charged the group a dollar per week to play and 50 cents for rule books originally. In the 2.0 Rules the first weapon making instructions are found. As well as information that we would expect to find in our corpora today. For instance. If you became prime minister of Burning Lands and you were not yet a knight, you became one when you stepped down. A Squire was listed under the classes, 'A Squire is a warrior in training under a Paladin Knight or Warrior with fifteen or more battle games of experience.' Healers were not allowed to heal themselves.

Esoum has been quoted saying that Amtgard spread proportionally to the number of people who left El Paso.

History of Dragon's Hollow

Dragon’s Hollow was originally a gathering of older members from the defunct groups of Crimson Stag and Silver Acorn. We met in front of the University center at Austin Peay State University. When I joined at the end of 2007, they were not considered an official group of Amtgard. Thus began the application process that myself and Katar Sitan completed. The design of the original heraldry, as well as the name, went through many trial and errors before we settled. We became a freehold in 2008 and within a year, a part of the Kingdom of Neverwinter.

During the first few years of being a shire, keeping the numbers up in a military/college town was hard. Since the numbers fluctuated so much with the school and military schedules, we were unable to keep a stable number of members. Eventually we moved to Rotary Park where we held numbers just under barony. With the move to Liberty Park in 2012, we were able to keep numbers above barony status and became a barony under Neverwinter

~ Lord Whitey

Founder of Dragon's Hollow

Of Shadow Forge

Original heraldry

After many attempts to grow the park it was during the winter months thaT it finnaly happened. On 3 March 2016 Dragon's Hollow was granted Duchy status by King Kelbo of Neverwinter.

Darthaniel Esquire

Duke of Dragon's Hollow

Dragon's Hollow has since been downgraded to Barony but continues to show numbers fluctuating between the two size descriptions.