Assembly

The Assembly is the annual month-long governing gathering of the Kingdom of Téoren. Attendance is required by law for all lords of the realm (though lords may elect to send a representative,) and open to all free men and women. It acts as an extended court session in which grievances and disputes may be heard and settled by the King, the Lawspeakers, and the public, and wherein the King may propose and alter laws, and award lands and titles. The Assembly is held during the month of Selûne in a large field several miles from Téoren's capital city, Vale.

History
The Assembly is the result of the high tensions between the Great Houses during the early days of the Recolonization. Disputes between the houses over borders, resources, and territory appeared to be at a breaking point and a five-way war seemed imminent when, in 712 AF, Cormac Téo dispatched emissaries to the other houses requesting a parlance. On the first of Selûne, the heads of the five houses met near Vale and over a long, tense month of discussion, reached an agreement to unite as a single independent realm ruled by an elected monarch.

With Cormac as the fledgling country's king, the Great Houses drew up the borders for Teoren's five duchies and crown lands (the king's personal demesne.) King Cormac included his own home city of Vale in the crown lands, moving his family's de jure ducal capital to Doranton, then a tiny House Téo colonial outpost.

Since the founding of the kingdom, the Great Houses have convened for the Assembly every year. As Téoren's population and infrastructure has grown, the Assembly has become more and more crowded, and with every passing year the crowd grows larger.