His Serenity's Gaol Dragonsfold

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His Serenity's Prison Dragonsfold, also known as His Riverine Majesty's Prison Dragonsfold (1626–1653), in Dragonskeep in the County of Agnesia is the primary maximum-security detention centre in Elwynn for persons arrested under the Elwynns Straflov or for other offences contrary to Elwynnese law.


Notable Prisoners

Name Ethnicity Status Offence Year Arrested Notes
Kasanrajon, Esau Aalai Elw Convicted. Sentenced to 20 years. Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 2: Agitation). 1635 Resident of Ardashirshahr, Vendor of the Foibles of the Unbelievers
Kirov, Nikolai Mishalanese Pre-Trial Administrative Detention. Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 1: Treachery, Article 3: Insurrection, Article 8: Usurpation) 1650 General Secretary of Mishalan. Took in 1631-1632 part in an armed force claiming to be the Mishalanese military without being authorized so by or under the Constitution of the Elwynnese Union.
Palin, Michael Angsax Convicted. Sentenced to 250 years. Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 2: Agitation, Article 4: Subversion, Article 5: Lèse-Majesté, Article 10: Hindering of the Prince) 1635 Peasant and self-styled comedian. Performed Monty-Python sketch in front of the King, hindering his progress around the Kingly City of Eliria.
Rykov, Fyodor Mishalanese Pre-Trial Administrative Detention. Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 1: Treachery, Article 3: Insurrection, Article 8: Usurpation) 1650 Retiree of the Mishalanese Soviet Air Force. Participated in the years 1631 and 1632 in an armed force claiming to be the Mishalanese military without being authorized so by or under the Constitution of the Elwynnese Union.

Notable Former Prisoners

Name Ethnicity Status Offence Year Arrested Notes
Cruise, Tom Mapother IV Cimmerian Sentenced. Died in prison Charter of Coordination Chapter 3, Article 2.3. and Chapter 4, Article 3.1.2. 1611 High Priest of the Holy Church of the Divine Icebear where he helped to mainstream the doctrine of Holy War. Cruise had a prominent role in the Icebear Rebellion.
al-Zaraqi, Abdullah Babkhi Escaped. Elwynns Fyrstes Hirð (Article 10: Insolence), Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 1: Treachery, Article 3: Insurrection, Article 4: Subversion, Article 5: Lèse-Majesté, Article 7: Sabotage, Article 9: Obstruction of the Royal Government). 1635 Former obstrecian and gynaecologist to Queen Noor. Medical Doctor at the Tokaray al-Osman Private Hospital (Allswell). Educated at the Madrassa of Beebullahabad (Allswell). Suspected of experiments on human specimens with Leng Cabbage. Escaped under obscure circumstances. Believed to have claimed asylum in Natopia before perishing in Anti-Jingdaoese disorders in the Cibolan territory of Walstadt.
Batmanghelidjh, Anousheh Babkhi Released. Suspected of providing support to insurgent groups in the Vale of Angularis. 1639 Released in 1643 without charge after interview by the Court of Star Chamber. Awarded compensation by the Court for period of Preventative Detention.
Volkova, Aleksandra Mishalanese Transferred to Imperial Custody Elwynns Straflov (Chapter 3, Article 1: Treachery, Article 3: Insurrection, Article 8: Usurpation) 1650 Chief Judge of the Soviet Court of Mishalan. Took in 1631-1632 part in a purported Law Court claiming jurisdiction over Mishalan without being authorized so by or under the Constitution of the Elwynnese Union. Transferred into Imperial custody by agents of the Chamber of the Crypteia bearing the seal of the Steward, citing National Security for overriding state jurisdictional primacy.
Win'Eth, Margana Kildari Released. Elwynns Straflov Treachery (Chapter 3, Article 1) commissioned by herself in conjunction with others in the Imperial Court of her father to carry forward an attempt upon the life of His Riverine Majesty and other members of the House of Ayreon-Kalirion and the Descendants of Freyu through a direct attack on Eliria which took place on the 24th of Araroqpinu in the year 1635. Also deriving as a consequence of this initial act, the Prisoner is accused of Obstruction of the Royal Government (Chapter 3, Article 9), Hindering of the King (Chapter 3, Article 10), the Arming of Privateers (Chapter 4, Article 4) and Confederating with Pirates (Chapter 4, Article 9). 1635. Held without trial since 1635 in dungeons beneath Raynor's Keep. Transferred into Elwynnese custody in 1639. Main instigator of River War. 1639-1641 Held in mobile private prison of the Arandur of Alalehzamin and Utasia, waiting interview by the Court of Star Chamber. 1641 returned to Dragonsfold after abortive trial. Released in 1651 after a personal examination by the Royal Instructing Justice of Elwynn, Daniyal Dravot, on account of time served, mistreatment endured whilst in custody, and the changing political priorities of the newly installed government in Eliria.

Other Prisoners

  • After 1650, a vast influx of political prisoners and other undesirables saw the Dragonsfold Gaol expand to the dimensions of a prisoner of war or concentration camp. Privileged prisoners continued to be held within the confines of the old palace complex whilst those less fortunate were incarcerated within the external barbed wire enclosures and set to work building their own barrack huts.
    • 49,541 recalcitrant Vanic clergy and Froyalaners who refused deportation orders were detained at satellite camps constructed around Dragonsfold. These will subsequently be evacuated to the west for resettlement.
    • 919 senior officers of the Fleur de Lys-Longships Guard.

Other former prisoners

  • Released as part of a pardon and amnesty for those who had resisted Storrish occupation:
    • 662 prisoners of war taken from insurgent groups operating in the Vale of Angularis during the insurgency there.
    • A number of 475 persons who were arrested in 1633 under Chapter 3, Article 1: Treachery, of Elwynns Straflov. They had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in a show trial overseen by the Court of Star Chamber.
  • Reported in 1660 to have disappeared under unexplained circumstances during the disorders of the Auspicious Occasion:
    • 14,312 members of the Mishalanese Communist Party nomenklatura detained in the year 1650 under the Organization of the Union Act 1640 (Chapter 4, Section 6: Additional Powers) for activities "contrary to the values of Societal Harmony and the pluralism and liberty that is the common right of all mankind and the best reflection of the Grace of the Divinity of the Lady Elwynn Herself".