East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The format for Crown Tourney will be a pooled round robin leading into a 16-man double elimination tournament. Weapons of choice throughout up to the semi-finals. Semi-finals will be best of 5 with rotating weapon forms. The undefeated fighter will start up 1 win. The finals will be best of 5 with rotating weapon forms. …
And so it was that Brennan Ri and Caoilfhionn Banri did throw a party for their heirs, and hold Court in the Shire of Quintavia on 9 April AS 50. First was Duchess Marieke called into court. She presented the restored and refurbished Sword of State to Their Majesties. Brennan Ri and Caoilfhionn Banri called …
Unto the Rapier Combatants of the Kingdom of the East do I, Master Frasier MacLeod, send greetings, We have recently changed Webministers for the EK Rapier website. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Mistress Analeda Falconbridge for stepping in at a difficult time and keeping the site afloat and viable until …
Mistress Laura Hawkwood (also known as Laura de Segovia), 43rd Laurel of the East, passed away in Carolingia on Tuesday, April 12th. She was awarded arms in AS X at the coronation of Alaric and Yseult, and was one of only 14 inductees into the now closed Order of Fatima, which honored illustrious clothiers and …
Attention, Talented Artisans of the Society for Creative Anachronism In the Society for Creative Anachronism, we are a collective of volunteers, each serving in their own way at one point or another so that all may have a chance to play, enjoy, learn and have fun. It is on this mantra that the SCA has …
Due to the Crown Tourney Letters of Intent website inadvertently closing early, it has been reactivated and will remain active until approximately 6:00 PM EDT on Tuesday April 12th. The address is http://surveys.eastkingdom.org/index.php/925981/lang-en Mercedes Vera de Calafia East Kingdom Senechal
The following is the court report from Mudthaw held by Their Majesties Brennan Ri and Caoilfhionn Banri on April 2, AS L. Court heralds were Master Malcolm Bowman, Mistress Kayleigh MacWhyte, Master Ryan MacWhyte, and Baron Yehuda ben Moshe.
“The East Kingdom Server will undergo a planned upgrade during the late evening of Wednesday, 4/6/2016. This is the third in a series of planned updates this year. (The second update did not require an interruption of services, and was performed last Thursday.) We will be migrating from our current level of service “Linode 8GB” …
Every year the heralds of the East (and the Known World) do their best to come up with silly, hilarious, ridiculous and generally foolish – but completely documented – names and armory. We’re pleased to share this year’s efforts with the Gazette and the whole Kingdom.
The names of consulting heralds frequently have been changed to protect the guilty.
Hugs and kisses from the College of Heralds Imaginary, Eastern Branch
1: Bogus Viking – New Name & New Badge 
Per fess argent and sable, a human male affronty armored vert bearing a spear and magic helmet proper (more…)
Our eighth A&S Research Paper comes to us from Sir Michael of York of the Barony of Carolingia. He examines a catastrophic climatological event with both modern and historical records, and in the telling introduces us to a very interesting chronicler. (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
Matthew Paris and the Volcano
Photograph by the British Library. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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