ANST - Most Inspiring SCA people

Mark.S Harris rsve60 at email.sps.mot.com
Mon Dec 6 11:37:02 PST 1999


I was on the Rialto last night and saw this message. I thought that
I would send it here to further spread the word-fame of this individual.
Perhaps reading this will help relight the fires of service in those of
us 
who have become so disillusioned by the politics and self-serving that
the 
SCA often seems so mired in.
  Stefan li Rous
  stefan at texas.net

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Let's each name one person who has been an inspiration, a help, a joy, a
symbol of the SCA at its finest.  We won't agree, but that's fine.  

I'd be hard pressed to pick a top five, or a top ten, or even a top
fifty.  There's just too many good people.

I have no trouble at all, however, naming a top one.  He's been an
essential part of the dream, and the research, and the teaching, and the
hard work, for over 24 years.

Tivar Moondragon came in, looked around, and started working.  He has
never stopped.  He saw something he thought the SCA needed, and worked
to make it happen -- not by complaining and whining, but by teaching,
and training, and convincing people that fencing added something
worthwhile, and by contributing in other areas as well.  He became a
marshal, not because he was particularly interested in rattan combat,
but because marshals were needed.

When he started, he couldn't drive, and was dependent on others for
transportation -- so he determined to be the best navigator in the
kingdom, and carried all local and state maps for the kingdom.  I've
seen him start setting up tents when he arrived at 8:00, keep at it as
others arrived on site to help, and realize at 1:30 that his own tent
was not yet up.

He serves at the feast about one feast in three, and always has.  

Tivar believes -- he believes in the dream, he believes in the study, he
believes in the work.  He has what Heinlein called "a touch of the
divine madness."

He can do the research without getting upset at the fantasy, and he can
do the work without getting upset at the party folk.

Remember when D'Artagnan was stabbed at the end of the DiCaprio *Man in
the Iron Mask*?  His lieutenent said of him, "All I ever wanted to be
was him."  That's Tivar.

Thanks, Tivar.

Robin of Gilwell / Jay Rudin
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