1484 In the Year of Our Lord

[Gandalfus]

Events throughout Europe

January–December

• March 26 – William Caxton, the first printer of books in English, prints his translation of Aesop's Fables.
• May 14 – Charles VIII of France (Charles l'Affable) is crowned.
• July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
• July 22 – Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, is defeated by forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.
• August 29 – Pope Innocent VIII succeeds Pope Sixtus IV, as the 213th pope.
• December 5 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, giving the inquisition a mission to hunt heretics and witches in Germany, led by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger.

Date unknown

• The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria.
• The first cuirassier units (kyrissers) are formed in Austria.
• The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians to perfect tables, to help seamen find their latitude.
• Margaret, Regent of Burgundy, orders foreign merchants to leave Bruges. Most merchants move to Antwerp, greatly contributing to its growth as an international trading center.
• Battle of Leitzersdorf: The Imperial Army of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated by the Hungarians.

Shape of the markets

- The price of wine buoys to £100 per ship.
- Wool decreases to £400 a ship, though the threat of hanseatic raiders is no longer present.
- Mines rise once more to £700.

[Xion]

Devon - 2 Mines.

[Trot]

1 Mine 2 wool ships

Richard Hastings needs his last child death roll

and Kathrine Neville 42

[The Mad Skylord]

2 wine ships 2 wool ships

[Lord William]

Mary Fitzalan-Mercer (30) (+3 survival)

[Gandalfus]

Devon - 2 Mines.

1 Mine 2 wool ships

Richard Hastings needs his last child death roll

and Kathrine Neville 42

2 wine ships 2 wool ships

Mary Fitzalan-Mercer (30) (+3 survival)

Kathrine Neville dies.

[Gandalfus]

Edward Holland (4)

[The Mad Skylord]

Rolled a 3, Edward Holland dies.

[Jokern]

John Mowbray, 40 (+1 Survival)
- Eleanor Neville, 37

Thomas Howard, 41 (Survival +1)
Robert Howard, 10
Margaret Howard, 39
Isabel Howard, 36
Jane Howard, 34

[The Mad Skylord]

John Mowbray falls ill, but barely survives. (5 +1 survival for 6)
Eleanor Survives.(4)

Thomas Howard dies. (4+1 = 5)
Robert Howard dies. (2)
Margaret, Isabel and Jane live. (11, 13, 15)

[General Brewster]

Stafford Woman (47)

[Pinkerton]

5 wool ships

[Dirty Chai]

Henry Stafford, 30 years old, with -1 to death rolls due to Staffordshire bonus of "Royal Forests"

[Gandalfus]

Stafford Woman (47)

Lives.

5 wool ships

All fine.

Henry Stafford, 30 years old, with -1 to death rolls due to Staffordshire bonus of "Royal Forests"

Lives.

[The Mad Skylord]

12, Henry Buckingham lives.

[Xion]

Richard de Montferrand, 44, +3 Survival

Devon's hemophiliac son, 1.

[Barry Goldwater]

Both miraculously survive, this time. Montferrand actually came closer to death than Devon's child.

[Dirty Chai]

2nd and 3rd child death rolls for Edward Stafford (heir to John Stafford, Lord Stamford, and cousin to Buckingham) as he's now 11 years old and I forgot he existed

[Gandalfus]

Lives.

[Dirty Chai]

Thomas St Leger, 42 years old, 5/20 chance of death, -2 from skilled physician