(SCA stuff) Atlantian Crown Tourney

[damont]

Short version for now...

We were at a Scout camp out in the hills of the western Shenandoah Valley. Duke Logan won the tournament, and now bronx_baroness is Crown Princess. And for the last item of business at Court that afternoon, Their Atlantian Majesties inducted me into the Order of the Pearl.

I'm still a bit stunned by that. Anyway, I'll probably flesh this post out later when I've had more time to wake up.

Comments

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

So actually better than a Maunche. We don't have Grant-level awards lke that.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Until about 4 years ago it was pretty much the exact equivalent of a Maunche (polling order, carried an AoA). In the spring of 2003 TRM of Atlantia bumped all the existing polling orders to Grant level (and gave GoA's to all members still in kingdom that didn't have a Grant or Patent yet -- which is how montuos and I, among many others, got our Grants of Arms) and inserted a new set of AoA-level, *NON*-polling orders.

In some ways I'm an Old Phart -- I still consider a Pearl and a Maunche as being much the same thing, just different kingdoms. (Likewise a Golden Dolphin and a Silver Crescent.)