Albion

What the sources establishEstablished

• The seal of the Albion Empire is a griffin wielding two swords standing guard above a euro-style capital city; the same griffin stands as a grand statue in Griffin Plaza before Parliament House. pilot pp. 1, 3
• Albion believes itself exceptional and chosen by God to rule the world; for a hundred years this belief has been in conflict with rival claims, at a great cost of blood and treasure, and a generation of children has known only hardship and war. pilot pp. 2-3
• The capital is a cluster of white marble buildings ringed with armament factories belching black smoke; Members of Parliament wear uniforms that evoke Albion's martial ethos. pilot pp. 3-4
• Albion citizens swear an oath: 'By the grace of our Divine Emperor, I serve Albion. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. In life everlasting.' A messenger boy uses the shorter 'By the emperor's grace, I serve.' pilot pp. 5, 8, 52; Campaign World Guide, 'The Albion Empire'
• The Counting House in the capital is a high-ceilinged room of uniformed accountants at comptometers, overseen from an office above by Chief Accountant Lord Wooster; orphans are raised in a state dormitory and levied to its service. pilot pp. 5-7
• Albion's Prince has proposed marriage to the Princess of Terrassia, its greatest enemy, and Foreign Minister Barron has staked the peace on the wedding, to be held on neutral ground in Kormor Kirak. pilot pp. 3, 15
• The front lines have not moved in years; Albion soldiers have a twenty percent chance of surviving their first day of combat, and the trenches of Gravinia are where the wounded come from. pilot pp. 6-7, 10
• Albion fields airships, military trains, and homing-pigeon posts carrying encrypted paper-strip messages in chest capsules, unlocked by signet ring. pilot pp. 2, 5, 9, 14
• The Albion Consulate in Kormor Kirak is a two-story building with a placard and seal by the door, a roof-deck pigeon coop, a bulletin board for the theater project, and a complex vault door set into the rear wall behind an official desk. pilot pp. 1-2, 25
• The consulate vault opens by placing the signet ring face-down in a port beside the lock and then spinning three combination dials before a timer runs out. pilot p. 26; Campaign World Guide, 'The Albion Consulate'
• The consulate is considered Albion territory; within its walls the Red Guards have no jurisdiction, which is why the ransacking after Feeney's death went unpoliced. pilot p. 25
• The vault held a robust deposit of gold to fund construction of the Theater of Everlasting Peace; it was emptied, and Feeney's body was left inside in a necromantic trellis. pilot pp. 26-27
• Barron's first diplomatic posting after military service was Kormor City, as General Counsel; Feeney was Albion's Counsel there at the time of the pilot. pilot pp. 15, 18, 23
• The Albion Quarter occupies the eastern side of the Kormor Kirak marketplace, organised with military precision, smelling of machine oil and fresh-cut wood, selling precision tools, military surplus, and mass-produced goods. City Locations Guide, 'The Albion Quarter'

Said, believed, or contradicted between sourcesRumored or disputed

• The City Locations Guide describes an 'Albion Embassy' as a four-story townhouse on Merchant's Height flying a gold double eagle on crimson, with an Ambassador's Office, a Cipher Room, and Imperial Guards in bearskins; the pilot and the Campaign World Guide describe a two-story Consulate under the Griffin seal. City Locations Guide, 'The Albion Embassy'; pilot pp. 1, 25
• The City Locations Guide makes Feeney a valet in his sixties and gives Lord Wooster a key to the Embassy Cipher Room in Kormor Kirak; in the pilot Feeney is Albion's Counsel in his thirties and Wooster never leaves the capital. City Locations Guide, 'Feeney'; pilot pp. 1, 6-8
• Barron's colleagues in Parliament fear the economic price of peace: what the factories will produce without a war. pilot p. 4
• Later publications refer to an Albion 'boy king' whose body Barron plans to possess; the pilot mentions only an Emperor and a Prince. Book Two, 'NPC Knowledge Cheat Sheet'; EC_GROUNDING_SHEET.md, section 5
• The Book Two profile gives the Albion oath as 'By his grace, I rise', which does not match the pilot's wording. Book Two, 'Character Profiles', Olivia Faren

What no source settlesUnestablished

• The name of the Albion capital city is not established in any source; the pilot calls it 'Albion Capital'.
• The name and age of the Albion Prince, and of the Emperor, are not established in any source.
• How far Kormor Kirak lies from the Albion capital, in days or miles, is not established in any source.

Reign of Blood, ICM first draft, 2022Scenes set here

1. The Albion Consulate in Kormor Kirak: Feeney's last stand and the pigeon (pp. 1-2).
2. Flight over the Albion Empire: trenches, war zeppelins, factories, the capital (pp. 2-3).
3. Grand Steps of Parliament House and Griffin Plaza (p. 4).
4. The Counting House: counting floor and Chief Accountant's office (pp. 5-8).
5. The consulate ransacked; the vault opened; Feeney's body (pp. 25-27).
6. The consulate cleaned; Nero and Zaffir; Szeret's visit (pp. 39-41).
7. Barron and Koss over the theater schedule; Koss's confession (pp. 46-47).

Who and what this record touchesConnections

Every story, issue and quest where the name appearsAppearances

• BloodletterTHE DEAD PLEDGEBLACK MARKET ALLEY
• BloodletterTHE EIGHTY-EIGHTH JOINTTHEATER OF EVERLASTING PEACE
• BloodletterTHE FOURTH TURNCLIFF ROAD
• BloodletterTHE SECOND BIRDALBION QUARTER
• BloodletterTHE BLANK LETTERTHE NIGHT MARKET
• BloodletterWHAT THE WATER KEEPSERDO POOLS
• BloodletterTHE FULL CUPTHE GRAND BALLROOM
• CourantTHE MARROW IS CLEAREDThe 15th of May, 1793
• CourantTHE ETERNAL REIGNThe 8th of May, 1793
• CourantTHE FESTIVAL BEGINSThe 1st of May, 1793
• CourantTHE CONVERGENCE PROCLAIMEDThe 24th of April, 1793
• CourantTHE TOWER RISESThe 17th of April, 1793
• Quest BoardSILENCE THE TOWER'S VOICETHE EASTERN TOWER
• Quest BoardTHE OCHRE DOORALBION QUARTER

Canon, in priority orderSources

1. The pilot script: Reign of Blood, ICM first draft 2022, pp. 1-10, 14-15, 23, 25-27, 39-41, 46-47
2. Campaign World Guide, 'The Albion Empire', 'The Century War', 'The Albion Consulate', 'Part Five: Technology and Industry'
3. City Locations Guide, 'The Albion Embassy', 'The Albion Quarter'
4. World Style & Tone Guide, 'Albion and Terrassia'
5. _publications/EC_GROUNDING_SHEET.md, sections 1 and 4
6. bloodletter_desk/stories/The_Second_Bird.md; quest_board_desk/quests/The_Ochre_Door.md (appearances of the Albion Quarter and Embassy)

Notes. The pilot and the Campaign World Guide say 'Consulate' and 'Counsel'; the City Locations Guide, the grounding sheet, and the published fiction say 'Embassy' and 'Ambassador'. The pilot's usage is treated as canon here and the Embassy naming is recorded as an alias.