ANST - Famous people in the SCA

[Mark.S Harris]

Jean Paul de Sens wrote:
> Yep.... I remember all of thos names.... Master Iolo was an excellent
> bowman too :)  Even funnier one of the best towns to get to in the game was
> Mooneschadowe... hehehe.... don't know if my shire copied him, or he copied
> my shire, or both or neither... buts its kinda cool...

The following is from my SCA-stories2-msg file in the SCA STORIES
section
of my Florilegium.

Stefan

> From: mordraut at bga.com (Mordraut Freyulf)
> Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
> Subject: Re: Master Iolo?
> Date: 28 Jun 1994 12:16:54 GMT
> Organization: Real/Time Communications - Bob Gustwick and Associates
> 
> mondschein at delphi.com wrote:
> :  
> : 	Is that the same fellow from the "Ultima" games? I've always wondered
> : that.
> : 	Weird thing: My lady whistled a bar of song in the car as we were
> : returning from the Renn Faire. I whistled the next bar. Then we both looked
> : at each other and realized that it was "Stones," which is a song from the
> : Ultima games, credited (in the game) to "Iolo FitzOwen." Weird, huh?
> :  
> : 			--Tristan
> 
> Don Shomino, MKA Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, creator of Ultima 
> based some of the characters on people in the SCA, most of whom live(d) 
> in the Barony of Bryn Gwlad.  Master Iolo is both a crossbow maker and a 
> bard, and he does look like the computer version.  He tells a story about 
> a young person coming up to him with the following questions:
> 
> KID: Your Iolo, right?
> 
> IOLO: Yes I am.
> 
> KID:  Your a bard?
> 
> IOLO:  Yes I am.
> 
> KID:  And you make crosbows?
> 
> IOLO:  Yes I do.
> 
> KID:  So you based your persona on the Ultima character, right?
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