Cennanceaster

The year was 1799: England was at peace, at least officially, as across the channel France underwent the last hiccups of a revolution and Napoleon began to pursue power.

Back in England, life in the small of Cennanceaster continued. The town and it's parish had a population of only about two hundred, most of them still tennant farmers under the the current Lord Damien. It was a great source of pride to the villiage people that the ancestral home of the Lords Damier lay just outside their villiage. Out of pride more than anything else, the people did not resent their Lord as much as they might otherwise, and indeed some pitied the man for the recent loss of his wife.

Lord Damier himself wanted little to do with the villiage life, or rather any life, at the present time, though he secretly found great pleasure in watching the people from his carrige when he goes to town each week.