[@Lurking Krog][@MissCapnCrunch]

Like I said, Wikipedia searches are more than fine to draw inspiration from. This is just a free RP and it's all in fun, lol, I'd just like it to be rooted in real events.
Here are some of the articles I've been reading!
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons#Middle_Anglo-Saxon_history_(660–899)]Middle Anglo-Saxon history (660–899)[/url]
	(this is the most relevant section of a very big article, but the page also has good stuff about society and culture if you don't mind going down the wiki hole.)
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercian_Supremacy]Mercian Supremacy[/url] and [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecgfrith_of_Mercia]Ecgfrith of Mercia[/url]
	(short and sweet summaries. the last paragraph of the first article is the most important for us as it's about the end of Offa's reign. Ecgfrith died less than a year after his consecration and that was the beginning of the end for Mercia. this all would have happened just before our RP will begin.)
[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenwulf_of_Mercia]Coenwulf of Mercia[/url]
	(the king during our RP. this is a long article but it has a lot of good info.)

Some of these are pretty long, so if you just skim them or pick passages that catch your interest, that's perfectly fine. :)