Great Reavings (event)
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The Great Reavings are a series of annual events where the Spheroid Clans fight Trials related to Bloodnames.[1]
Overview[edit]
Beginning in 3095, the Clans represented on the Council of Six Clans began holding annual Great Reavings.[1] As the name suggests, Great Reavings include Trials of Reaving fought between different warriors of different Bloodname Houses. Great Reavings also include Trials of Propagation and Trials of Founding.
Trial of Founding[edit]
Trials of Founding are the main events of the annual Great Reavings.[1] A Trial of Founding is initiated when one of the Khans of the Six Clans nominates a freeborn warrior to become the Founder of a new Bloodname.[1] The respective Clan Council then votes on the proposed new Bloodname, with the ratio of the votes in favor of to the votes against setting the number of opponents that the nominee must fight in the Trial of Founding[1] (this is akin to how odds are set in a Trial of Refusal).[2] If the nominee is victorious, he or she becomes the founder of a new Bloodname limited to ten Bloodrights. If the nominee is defeated, his or her bloodline cannot be nominated for another Trial of Founding ever again.[1] As with any other Bloodname, a Bloodname created in a Trial of Founding is subject to Trials of Reaving and Trials of Propagation to alter its Bloodcount.[1]
Notable Great Reavings[edit]
3095 through 3100[edit]
The Council of Six passed the Edict of Severance in 3095, which cut the ties between Bloodnamed warriors taken as Abtakha by the Six Clans from Bloodname Houses that were under the control of the Homeworld Clans. These warriors were allowed to fight in Trials of Founding to create a new Bloodname House in the Inner Sphere, separate from their birth Bloodname House in the Clan Homeworlds. Warriors whose Bloodnames were affected by the Edict of Severance, including N'Buta, Telinov, Dinour, Boques, and Holliday, fought Trials of Founding to create branch Bloodname Houses among the Spheroid Clans.[1]
Also, in 3099, a warrior of Clan Sea Fox won a Trial of Founding to create the Bloodname of Kel (Clan Sea Fox).[3]
3111[edit]
Warriors of the Magnusson Bloodname won a Trial of Propagation to increase the Bloodcount for their Bloodname to the maximum number of twenty-five Bloodrights.[1]
3138[edit]
Warriors of Cooper Bloodhouse defeated those of the Howe Bloodhouse in a Trial of Reaving during Clan Snow Raven's Great Reaving for that year.[1]
3146[edit]
Khan Gottfried Amirault sponsored Ilnay Techus for a Trial of Founding. Techus was defeated when he was shot out of his Arcas. After apologizing to his family for his failure, Techus committed seppuku and Khan Amirault served as his second. In connection with Fulk Lassenerra's election as saKhan the previous year, warriors of Lassenerra Bloodname fought and won a Trial of Propagation to add a twenty-third Bloodright to their Bloodname House.[1]
Khan Dalia Bekker of Clan Ghost Bear sponsored aerospace fighter pilot Svenga Miraborg to become the Founder of a new Bloodhouse. Svenga fought against two OmniFighters in her Trial of Founding. She was victorious and her Bloodname was officially added to the Clan's genetics program.[1]
Khan of Clan Sea Fox Mori Hawker proposed reclassifying the Fowler Bloodname from a lineage that specializes in breeding aerospace fighter pilots to one that would produce ProtoMech pilots and to restart production of ProtoMechs. The Sea Fox Clan Council voted against Khan Hawker's proposal and a Fowler warrior lost the ensuing Trial of Refusal.[1]
Khan Malvina Hazen of Clan Jade Falcon called for a Trial of Reaving against the Bloodright previously held by the late saKhan Beckett Malthus following his failed assassination attempt against her on Hesperus II.[1] Khan Hazen ordered the rest of her Star to stay out of the fight and faced a Star of warriors of the Malthus Bloodname alone. Khan Hazen not only defeated all of her opponents, but she intentionally killed all of them.[1]
In Clan Snow Raven's Great Reaving, warriors of Cooper and Howe Bloodhouses fought to a draw in a Trial of Reaving.[1]
Clan Wolf held its Great Reaving on Solaris, the first time the Game World hosted this type of event. To commemorate Alpha Galaxy's victory against the Golden Ordun on Hesperus II, Khan Alaric Ward called for Trials of Propagation for every Bloodname House who had a Bloodnamed warrior serving in Alpha Galaxy.[1]
3150[edit]
MechWarrior Eric Weaver of Clan Wolf, formerly of Clan Wolf-in-Exile, fought in and won a Trial of Propagation for his Bloodname. Eric Weaver is a descendant of a warrior of the Sixth Jaguar Dragoons taken as Isorla by Clan Wolf-in-Exile.[4]
Future Great Reavings[edit]
With the reintegration of Clan Wolf-in-Exile into Clan Wolf following the IlClan Trial, Alaric Ward decreed that the matter of more than twenty-five warriors holding the same Bloodname would be addressed at Clan Wolf's next Great Reaving.[5]