Eastrealm!
Hear the words of our illustrious King Kenric and our brilliant Queen Avelina:
Take our love, take our land, and take those whose service benefits all around them.
Though the lands may burn, though the seas may boil, though their efforts go unnoticed through decades, those gentles that provide a Shining light to us all shall go unrecognized no longer.
We have cast about unto the black skies above for all those who might be worthy of our Order of the Silver Crescent, and have found an exemplar in Brochmail de Anglespur.
Hammer in hand, Broch has given his sweat and blood to ensure that every Shindig runs smoothly, from the closest to the farthest-flung. His agile mind has solved problems, resolved arguments, and been instrumental in building his young Shire into a home for all. Today it is his stalwart heart for which we commend him: a true Heart of Gold which leads him to place the welfare of his family, his Shire, his Kingdom and the Society above himself, time after time.
The sages of old have said: those who cannot run, may crawl; and those who cannot crawl, may find someone to carry them. Brochmail de Anglespur is a gentle who will go out of his way to carry others to success.
With this in mind, We, King Kenric æt Essex and Queen Avelina Keyes, find a profound Serenity in inducting Brochmail de Anglespur into Our Order of the Silver Crescent and further do award him the exclusive right to bear these arms Per chevron inverted counter-ermine and vert, a lymphad and an acorn slipped and leaved Or.
Done this 10th day of September, A.S. 51, at the Feast of John Barleycorn and Viceregal Investiture in the Crown Principality of Ostgardr.
***On the back***Illumination and Calligraphy by Aesa Sturludorrie, and Words by Aislinn Chiabach because they are pretty
***On the back***Illumination and Calligraphy by Aesa Sturludorrie, and Words by Aislinn Chiabach because they are pretty
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My partner in Crime in this endeavour was Lady Aesa Sturuldottir. She did the calligraphy and illumination. Our inspiration was twofold as she describes our shennanigansin her blog: https://byswordandpen.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/barleycorn-mischief-managed/
My inspiration was Broch's mundane love for the unfortunately short lived sci fi series, Firefly. Back when it was first cancelled he was in the thick of the protests, going to NYC to try and garner support for the show on the Today Show. I chose to make the modern references instead of a more period and serious text because I knew he would enjoy that kind of scroll. I also knew that the Herald reading the scroll, Baron Ryan MacWhite, would enjoy reading it greatly. He has been known to go by the nickname of Baron Jayne.
With that in mind, I and my beta, Lord Arthur le Taverner worked with the standard SCAdian award text trying to create a scroll that included examples of the many wondrous attributes of Broch, as many Firefly references as humanly possible and still be an eloquently written scroll that stands alone if someone was not familiar with the ill dated Joss Whedon television show.
And as far as that goes, there is only one truly anachronistic word in the entire piece. The etymology of "Shindig" lists it as starting between 1855-1860. Due to the close reference it contains in Firefly, I chose to include it in the scroll.
I hope these words accomplished that.
Beta'd by Lord Arthur le Taverner
