ye olde retro Melee Gathering: "Robbin Markham"

Proof that Melee is also Fantasy, and NOT just historical medieval reenactment.

PROOF THAT MELEE IS ALSO FANTASY, AND NOT JUST HISTORICAL MEDIEVAL REENACTMENT. 
This Melee article, published in Annuals of Apocrypha Volume 2, Issue 1, page 1, by Timers the Rogue.
"Medieval Reenactment. Fantasy Roleplaying. Melee is all of these and more. It is a common grounding where imaginations meet.....of the world that we live in, there are many with fantastic imaginations.. And to achieve a name that can be placed on the rolls of legend alongside those which we've all heard before: Arthur, Lancelot, Conan, Aragorn, Fafhrd, the Grey Mouser, Elric of Melnibone, Altarius, Alton LaPeto, Doolin MacKeag."

 Alongside with this article, many Melee Factions were based on Fantasy, or RPG.. for example, The Black Company was based on the book, "The Black Company" by Glen Cook. "Chaos" based on the chaos monsters in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Many Gathering Scenarios had magic and monsters and these scenarios shall also be furnished as proof as well.

MeleeCon

We're living in the Anime Con boom, and I was thinking we could really boost Melee attendance by hosting a MeleeCon.
We could find a park building, where we could camp in the park, and use the park building as well as big tents/park shelters to host many things a MeleeCon would have:
Panels, viewing rooms, gaming rooms, etc.
Panels: For example, a Melee Panel would have:
"How to craft weapons"
"How to make leather armour"
"How to make metal armour, chainmail, brigandine, etc"
"LARPS, SCA, Anachronism, etc panel discussions"
"Medieval history, battles, etc"
"RPG"
"Medieval combat"
"Martial arts"
"Jousting"
"Magic, Sorcery"
"Bellydancing"
"Viking Rune Lore"
Etc Etc Etc
These Panels can show us proper techniques in fighting, jousting, marital arts, medieval combat, medieval lore, etc.
etc. In our large commnity of Melee, some of us can do a panel for an hour or so, and show video clips and pictures and related material to the panel discussion on a video projection, and thus, several panel rooms are open all day in the park building or a park shelter on a schedule basis.
Viewing Rooms:
Viewing rooms exhibit movies and anime related to Melee, and are video projected on a screen, in a Park room or a park shelter.
"Fantasy anime viewing room"
example: Berserk, Guin Saga, The Sacred Blacksmith, Claymore, Slayers Excellent, Dragon Half, Familiar of Zero, RG Veda, Labyrinth of Flames, Heroic Legend of Arslan, Dungeon and Dragons cartoons, Legend of Crystania, Record of Lodoss War, Spice and Wolf, Sword Art Online, etc.
Fantasy Movies: Dungeonmaster, Conan, Jabberwocky, Hawk the Slayer, Dragonslayer, Heavy Metal, The Beastmaster, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, Thor the Conqueror, Sheena, Hundra, Barbarian Queen, LadyHawke, Army of Darkness, The Seventh Seal, etc.
Please do suggest some fantasy/medieval movies/anime, etc. The more rarer, obscure, high brow, quality, diverse, foreign, the better. We want to show stuff that no one has normally seen, as well as classics. All day and nite.
Gaming Rooms: RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer RPG, Warhammer 40K, Warhammer Fantasy Battle, tons of diverse RPG's, etc. Gamings can go all day and nite
Guests:
A good example of a Guest, would be perhaps, a writer from classic Warhammer games like Tim Eccels, or perhaps the founder of Drachenfest, perhaps a Joust champion, etc.
Concerts and Dances:
a diverse range of music, related and somewhat fits in the scene, medieval music, viking metal bands, industrial, a masquerade ball, a viking rave, etc.
BELLYDANCERS
PRETTY PRINCESS PARADE
JOUSTING
Medieval Games
Frog Eating Contest (medieval village game- perhaps we can substitute Jelly Frogs for real ones)
We could team up with a Medieval Faire, and add Melee, other LARPS, Dragonhir, SCA to it, for a wide variety of experience, battles, games, and more attendance, as well as getting a diverse variety of panels and guest speakers and instructionals, games, etc.
Dealers Room
you guessed it- Dealers sell all kinds of goodies: Weapons, Armour, Chainmail, leather, garb, gear, accessories, magic potions, etc.
MeleeCon can run over a whole weekend, thus three days of Battles on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, with the festitivities at night and gaming after hours!
 

Melee Gathering/Scenario Park

This park.. Ahem.. is perfect for a Gathering and Scenario for Melee.

the Dr. Dayal Meshri Park, at a fabulous location at 21st and Peoria, near the heart of brookside, a party location.

check out the great expanse of land and room for a giant battlefield, surrounded by lush landscaping and beautiful scenery. A pagoda rests in the middle of the park, a great feast spot.

steps lead to the posh palace in which one can have a grand, royal feast. The gardens are opulent and will please any royalty.

as you can see, the park has a great expanse of battlefield in which countless of warriors can fight for hours on a saturday afternoon.
 

why Langenheim makes a good Melee Park

 The name alone makes it awesome- "Langenheim". Most medieval villages and cities have the word
Heim" in it. It's sooo Warhammer, like MiddenHeim, City of the White Wolf.

 

 there are two parking spaces, one by the Castle Playground and one in the back of the park. Plenty of parking unused by people. This one is near the Elf Forest on the left with cute small trees. Notice the big trees in the background that has huge shady expanse.

 Castle Playground. How awesome!

 Big Shady Trees for factions. Notice the Elf Forest with small trees in far background.

 Big Shady Trees by the playground. Notice how huge the battlefield is.

 Huge Park, eh?

The AWESOME ELF FOREST> many small trees and many you can't see.
Pros and Cons:
1. Unhabitated, unbusy park. The battlefield is always available. The Castle Playground is the only thing used and used by little kids. Thus parking is ample and the park is big and spacious.
2. Big shady trees, a Small-treed Elf Forest for special battles, big expanse of battlefield.
3. Flat surface.. no hills, but no rocks.
4. Castle Playground.

Volker Von Baky, Witch-Hunter Bio

Volker Von Baky was born in Middenhiem, in the heart of the Empire. The Von Baky family is a prominent Nobelese that do nothing but attend and host masquerade balls and are social elitists, only carousing with high society. While Volker was young, he and his father went on a special voyage, of which they were attacked by Vikings. Volker, a young lad, was abducted and used by Vikings as a pit fighter- it was there that Volker acquired such strong fighting skills. He was used as a pit fighter slave, making the Vikings money on bets. One day, Volker's uncles in their years long search, chanced upon the pit fight to find the royal birthmark on Volker's butt, and brought him at a princely sum of 1 Gold Syn.
Volker, now a teenager, was home schooled by many tutors in the arts of literature, writing, poetry, baudry, song, history, horsemanship, swordsmanship, fencery, of the arts afforded by the nobelese. He attended many a royal ball with his mother and sisters, and knew the arts of high society. Soon he attended a collegia in Aldorf, and dreamed of being a musician and studied it, but he partied quite hard, drinking and taking weirdroot, a hallucinatory drug that gives you vision-like dreams, and also took stardust and went to many Elven Raves, and raved all nite and had a lot of fun with the Elven girls and many girls of the town. His friend, Altor, one time, was on a bad weirdroot trip, and was tainted with warpstone, turned into a Slaanesh Daemon and was raping the girls, and Volker, to his dismay, drew out his sword and slain his best friend in order to save the girls, and was the life of the party, and saved the lives of the girls and therefore won their hearts.
This inspired Volker to be a Witch-Hunter and he trained hard and was accepted into the ranks of the Order of the Sacred Flame, and he has a soft heart, he cannot burn the children or those tained with warpstone, and is accused of siding with Chaos when most psychotic, paranoid witch-hunters usually burn down villages to get rid of the taint of Chaos- however, he is well known for going out on the most difficult missions of hunting down cultists to intercept demon summonings and has slain many a summoned Greater Daemon, earning him many medals.

Witch Hunter Faction: Order of the Twin-Tailed Comet