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Segel Weyr
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| Fan Club | |
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| Name: | Segel Weyr |
| Dates: | mid-70s - 2000s? |
| Founder(s): | Eileen Eldred and Mira Limbacher |
| Leadership: | Eileen Eldred, Chantal Whittington |
| Country based in: | USA |
| Focus: | Pern roleplay |
| External Links: | archived site |
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Segel Weyr was an official Dragonriders of Pern roleplay fanclub. Their first quarterly newsletter was Blowing Off Steam and their second, bi-monthly newsletter was The Far Eastern Flash. The Harper Beat ad mentions two smaller Pern zines called The History of Segel Weyr and The History of Western Snows Weyr. It also published two Star Wars saga zines called Foxfire and And So It Has Ended, and a zine called Spooks in an unknown fandom. Their RP zine was Far Eastern Flashback.
Segel Weyr had roughly 50 members in 1983, when it was advertised in the back of Harper Beat issue #8. According to the advertisement, official colors varied according to Wing, and the club was open to members worldwide. By 1992, Out of the Blue would describe the club as based mostly in the Far Eastern US.
At the time of the creation of Segel Weyr, there were only three other Pern clubs: Argon Weyr, Fort Weyr, and Ista Weyr.
Relationship with McCaffrey
In order to stay out of McCaffrey's way and to kill any arguments by club writers about use of McCaffrey's copyrighted characters, the Windwall was created and set into place around the Far Eastern Continent. A map was drawn, rules for certain things laid down, a little history, and the Continent took shape. Later, Ms. McCaffrey saw a copy of the FEC map and its location, liked what she saw, and asked Eileen Eldred if she could incorporate it into the Map of Pern as the Far Western Continent. Eileen said yes. (Like she would have said anything else? (g)).