Help Out

Royal Liaison and Royal Retainers

What is a Royal Liaison? In order for the Royals to dutifully play Their part as Royalty They need assistance. When you help out any Royals during any event you are helping Them play Their regal part and adding to the quality of everyone's Dream. 

A Royal Liaison helps organize this assistance for the Royals. A Royal Liaison also tries to answer any Royals’ questions regarding the event.

Who can help?

A Royal Retainer is someone who helps out the royals at an event. The Royal Liaison recruits volunteers to be Royal Retainers. Anyone can help out! Just be sure to mention if you have any restrictions so that you can be assigned a task according to your abilities.

There are many names for those who provide general assistance to the Royals:

• Lady-in-waiting (LiW).
• Lord-in-waiting (LiW).
• Royal retainer.
• Court setup (help will be needed to set up banners, thrones etc for court(s).

Royal retainers at Double Wars

During any event, there are certain times when the Royals need an extra person (or two) to do things for Them. Usually this is during meal times and court (see below).

Sometimes a Royal will require assistance for any activities going on, e.g. fighting, fencing, archery, and classes. They might be participating, teaching or watching the activity. The Royal will tell you what They need help with.

During a week-long event like Double Wars there are many days with meals, classes, activities, and courts. With so many instances where the Royals need assistance, it makes the work easier to have many people willing to serve as a retainer.

What are the duties of a Royal retainer?

It varies depending on who has the role of a Royal in our society at any given time but mostly it means:

• carrying things,
• assistance during meal times (fetching food and drink, incl. refills),
• washing feast gear (dishes and cutlery),
• delivering messages,
• fetching people,
• and sometimes just keeping Them company.

Duties of Royal retainers during court

If you are a Royal retainer during court, there are a few other things to consider:

• Find out if the Royal(s) want you to attend the court planning.
• If yes, find out when and where the court planning takes place.
• Don’t be late.
• Do not leak secrets from the court planning.

• Find out what the Royal(s) want to drink during court.
• If possible, leave the heavier objects behind the thrones (so you don’t have to carry them while walking behind the Royals to the front).
• Don’t forget to bring something for yourself (mug and drink, avoid snacks).
• A Nordmark tradition on how to open cans/bottles during court: while everyone is shouting “Vivat!” or “Vivant!” (it disguises the “modern sound”).

• Be ready to hand stuff to the Royal(s) when They need it.
• Listen to the herald for which award is to be presented next.
• If the Royal(s) intend to give out a token for this award, They may have asked you during court planning to hand it to Them at this time.
• Pay attention to the Royal(s). They will indicate when They want you to give/take Their drinking vessel.

• Be discreet.
  • Court is when the Royals are most visible, and this is how it should be.
  • A Royal retainer should not try to steal the attention of the populace.
  • However, you will probably be caught in photographs, so think about how you carry yourself.

If you have questions about being a Royal Retainer, please reach out to the Royal Liaison.
You can find their contact information on the autocrat page.

Be a Brunch Hero

Are you a morning person? Lend us your hands in the kitchen during brunch (Saturday-Saturday) and the breakfast on the last Sunday from 7 am. until 1 pm.

There is a ready-made menu and all ingredients and recipes will be in place. As in previous years, we will provide a buffet with bread, cold cuts, yoghurt, porridge, etc., but also more hot dishes.

Previous experience of visiting or working at Double Wars not required. You just have to enjoy spending time in the kitchen and feeding your fellow participants.

Please let us know how many meals you want to help out with and what meals would suit you.

If you have questions about the brunch duty, please reach out to the coordinator in charge. You can find their contact information on the autocrat page.

Dinner Teams

Going hungry is one surefire way to make any event miserable, having to resort to Soldatens pea soup every day is just not it! (It’s a good soup, don't get us wrong, but every day?) Unlike non stop rain and the plague, going hungry is preventable! The solution is the kitchen and its crews! So gather some people or let your interest show and become one of our Dinner teams! 

The kitchen is arguably the best place to be during an event, don’t let anyone try and convince you otherwise! You are surrounded by the best atmosphere, great food, and wonderful people.

Each day Saturday-Saturday of Double Wars dinner will be served in the main building. This is made possible by Dinner teams taking turns cooking and serving dinner. If you like eating dinner, please consider creating or joining a Dinner team! 

The Basics:

• Each team decides how many participants there are in the team themselves, but make sure you are enough people to handle the cooking, serving and also clean up after. Max 7 people will be able to eat for free for that dinner.
• The budget to use is: 90 SEK for adults and 45 SEK for children 0-12 y. 
• The dinner coordinator will buy what you need for your day unless some other agreement has been made between us. We will mainly be ordering from Martin & Servera but we also will be able to order from Willy’s.
• The team will be compensated with 20kr per PAID portion and 10kr per UNPAID portion such as the crowns.

Each team can cook on one or more of the evenings - it's up to you! 

You can use your own favorite recipe or get ideas from the dinner coordinator. While we all enjoy the medieval ambiance of Double Wars, there is no requirement that the food needs to be period.

You will have a well equipped kitchen at your disposal and the support of the dinner coordinator with planning your day. 

If you have questions about the dinner teams, please reach out to the coordinator in charge. You can find their contact information on the autocrat page.