The Lorien Trust was formed in late 1991, after a group of experienced live role-players decided to run something better than the events that had been run before. After a few large meetings, this group of players formed a company, the Lorien Trust (limited by Guarantee). They set up a board of trustees to run the company and the events on a co-operative basis, with a set of business ideas and policies.
During the first few years, it became clear that major changes in the way the business was to be run in the future needed to be implemented. By mid 1995 the Lorien Trust limited by Guarantee was replaced with a new company, Merlinroute Ltd T/A (trading as) the Lorien Trust.
Merlinroute Ltd then restructured the way the business and events were to run. As the requirements of the players have grown and changed over the years, so too have our business policies, the events we run and the Lorien Role-Playing system. Every year since the change in 1995, many improvements to the quality of the events have been made and yet we still hold true to our original policy: 'live role-playing events, run for live role-players by live role-players'.