When: May 24th - 27th 2012
Where: Castle Park, Provo Utah
What: Salt War is the yearly event for the Amtgard Kingdom Desert Winds. It is a 3 day camping event full of Large Scale Battlegames, Role Play, Fighting, Quests, Tournements, Feasts, Court (Award Cermonies), Bardics (signing around the campfire) etc. We typically get 150-200+ participants each year. Battles will utilize the standard Amtgard Rules of Play.
This Years Theme:
Water... Earth... Fire... Air. Long ago, the four nations lived together in
harmony. We know the History, everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.
Only the Avatar, Master of all four elements, could stop them. But when the
world needed him most, he vanished. A hundred years passed before the new
Avatar, an air-bender named Aang was discovered and rose up to defeat the Fire
Lord and save the world. Eighty years have passed under Avatar Aang's benevolent
leadership and the world has enjoyed a tenuous peace.
Under Avatar Aang's leadership and with the joint agreement of the heads of each
nation the military forces of the world were scaled back. The three nations only
hold small garrisons and police forces to keep the peace. Benders and Citizens
of the Fire, Earth and Water nations freely mingle and trade throughout the
world to the mutual benefit of society.
The few descendants of Avatar Aang have been secreted away for their own
protection in the hopes that air-bending will be passed down and a new nation of
air-benders will one day arise. Avatar Aang has kept the location of his family
a secret from the world so no one knows of their location.
Sadly that knowledge has died with him. Yes my people, it is with a heavy heart
that I must report that our beloved friend and Avatar has passed into the spirit
world. His death occurred while visiting the Town of Lengfeng shortly after
performing the right of transference to the new Avatar, a newborn baby of the
Northern Water Tribe.
The blessed Ceremony was attacked by a force that is reported to have used
Bending, of which type the reports seem to conflict. Avatar Aang was killed
while he was weakened by the transference of the Avatar Energy to the newborn
baby. The newborn Avatar has been abducted and no one knows by whom or why.