East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The following combatants remain in the tournament to determine the heirs to the Tyger throne. With No Losses Duke Randal of the Dark fighting for Duchess Katherine Stanhope THLord Sterling de la Rosa fighting for THLady Caitrina Gordon called Katya Sir Matthew D’Arden fighting for Mistress Fia Karmen THLord Ôzurr the Boot-Giver fighting for Baroness …
The tournament to decide the heirs of the East is well underway, with the following combatants continuing to fight for the honor of their consorts. With No Losses Duke Randal of the Dark fighting for Duchess Katherine Stanhope vs. Jarl Valgard Stonecleaver fighting for Lady Gracia Vasquez de Trillo Lord Greadden Olthursun Veassellurd fighting for …
The tournament to choose the heirs of König Wilhelm and Königin Vienna is beginning in the Barony of Endewearde. The format will be standard double elimination up to the final 8. From there it will be best of 3 each round until the final 4, then best of 5 with the finals being best of …
Doña Lilias de Cheryngton, the incoming Kingdom Marshal of Fence, talked to the Gazette about her new position, diversity in fencing, and the Order of Defense. Please describe your job responsibilities. The Kingdom Marshal of Fence sets and enforces weapon and armor standards for fencing, supervises the authorization of rapier combatants, and deals with disciplinary …
The following announcement is from Lady Audrye Beneyt, Event Steward for Saturday’s Crown Tournament in Endewearde: We will be moving the lists under the cover of Bennett Hall for Saturday’s Tournament. What does this mean for combatants? 1. You will be dry. No wet fighters. No wet grass. 2. You will be fighting in concrete. …
Preparations where all in place, the barony was ready and then on the morning of October 27th, A.S. LIII, known in the common era as 2018, Their Majesties, Wilhelm and Vienna arrived to join in the traditional celebrations of Concordia of the Snows, Bjorn’s Ceilidh event. In morning court the current Baron Jean-Paul Ducass and …
Our twenty-fourth Research Paper comes to us from the members of the Accademia della Danza, chiefly of the Barony of Carolingia and the Shire of Quintavia. It has been their mission these past two years to transcribe and decode an original fifteenth-century manuscript that may be a reference book? an archive? a mystery and a riddle of the terpsichorean arts? Look within and learn what they have discovered! (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
The Gresley Dance Collection
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On the 20th of October A.S. LIII, known in the common era as 2018, the radiant Queen of the East, Vienna de la Mer, travelled to the Shire of Owlsherst in order to attend Shire Wars VIII, the battle of Hastings. As Her King had great trials that required His attention, it would fall to Her alone this day to see to Their people.
Early in the morning the Queen had Her herald call for all present to gather ‘round- for there was one thing that She simply could not wait to do. At Her nod, the herald called one Kathryn Perry forward, and the Queen spoke of this woman’s phenomenal skill in making clothing and accessories of an Elizabethan type. Then She bade Her herald to call for Her Order of the Laurel and once they drew near, the Queen playfully admonished Kathryn and instructed her to think about what she’d done while she sat in vigil this day.
Once this most urgent business was completed, and the Order had whisked Kathryn away to her vigil, The Queen was free for a while to enjoy the activities the people of Her Shire had arranged for the day. There were Boat Battles on the Heavy Weapon field, list combat by dashing Rapier fighters, an Arts and Science Competition, children’s activities, a tasty day board to sample, something called Helga ball to play and one thing quite near and dear to Her Majesty’s heart – weapons to throw! (more…)
In response to many requests for gender-neutral period titles, the SCA College of Arms has been conducting research and taking commentary on several proposed titles. The research project is being supervised by Mistress Ursula Georges of the Middle Kingdom, the Palimpsest Herald. The College of Arms recently approved the first three gender-neutral titles – two …
The Society College of Arms runs on monthly cycles and letters. Each month, the College processes name and armory submissions from all of the Kingdoms. Final decisions on submissions are made at the monthly meetings of the Pelican Queen of Arms (names) and the Wreath King of Arms (armory). Pelican and Wreath then write up their decisions in a Letter of Acceptances and Return (LoAR). After review and proofreading, LoARs generally are released two months after the meeting where the decisions are made.
An “acceptance” indicates that the item(s) listed are now registered with the Society. A “return” indicates that the item is returned to the submitter for additional work. Most items are registered without comments. Sometimes, the LoAR will address specific issues about the name or armory or will praise the submitter/herald on putting together a very nice historically accurate item. The following results are from the August 2018 Wreath and Pelican meetings.
EAST acceptances
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