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- From: schuldy@progress.COM (Mark Schuldenfrei)
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.220128.2325@progress.com>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:01:28 GMT
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- Tadhg wrote:
- MS> So, on the one hand, you seem to maintain that modelling of period
- MS> behavior takes precedence over SCA style when creating names, but the
- MS> inverse when creating armory?
-
- Yup, because the rules are quite different for the two.
-
- Which misses the point of my question. The rules are an artifact which has
- been created, and been changed, and will be again. The rules do not justify
- themselves.
-
- Why, Tadhg, have two different standards for names and armory? Please don't
- answer "because we do".
-
- Another difference is that "SCA armorial style" quite comfortably tries to
- err on the side of authenticity, while "SCA naming style" makes a valiant
- effort to turn us into a mutant descendant of the Tolkien Society by way
- of Darkover and the Dragonriders of Pern....
-
- Nice prose. But the first clause is provably incorrect. SCA Armorial Style
- does not accurately model even the unambitious portions of the period
- you would have us cover, let alone the scope of the SCA as it is authorized
- and practiced. (We don't have rules making purpure as rare as it was in
- period armory. Our whole conflict structure forces us to swing wide of
- existing examples of heraldry, instead of forcing us to emulate it more closely).
-
- Our naming conventions support "If it was done in period, you can do it". Our
- Our armory conventions support a homogenized style, that excludes period
- practices.
-
- [Haggling over exactly what level of disapproval Tadhg has demonstrated over
- naming in the past, deleted. Lovely smokescreen, however.]
-
- Tibor
- --
- Mark Schuldenfrei (schuldy@progress.com)
- [I'm just showin' you my opinions: this ain't a gift]
-