[Ansteorra] Handling AoAs with non-titled personas

[Stefan li Rous]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 9:44 PM, Goldweard wrote:

> The usages of titles within the sca can conflict with
> persona play sometimes.    I'll give two examples
>
> my persona as it stands right now.
> I finally have my AoA.  but using the title Lord
> Goldweard  in formal situations doesn't feel right to
> my persona.   I would still like some sort of title in
> these situations.  So the usage of Brother is a close
> approximation.

Well, here is a story from this file in the PERSONAS section of the  
Florilegium. The individual, Leon, did play in your barony after the  
time of this story.
persona-msg       (77K) 12/ 8/00    Persona development. Ideas of  
Persona.

This isn't exactly your situation, but it is similar. Anyway, it does  
give some ideas on one way to handle the situation, and besides it is  
funny.

Stefan
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From: Theron.Bretz at f555.n387.z1.fidonet.org (Theron Bretz)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Surprise! Surprise!
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 20:39:00 -0500

 From the pen(?) of Etienne de Montagu, good greetings:
Regarding awards that "don't fit the persona", I'd like to share a tale:
Many moons ago, there lived in my barony (Bjornsborg,
Ansteorra) a gentle called Leon Donne, a goodly fellow for yeoman
stock. Leon's persona was (still is) an English bowman straight out of
Henry V. When he got his AoA, his solution to the problem was to carry
it (the scroll) around in a leather case at his belt wherever he went,
so that he could prove his right to hunt the King's deer. One day,
some friends of his with more "noble" personas cornered him and
confronted him about "pretending to be a Lord". Leon presented the
scroll to the threesome and the exchange went something like this:
Godwyn (holding the scroll upside down): Michael, you're a Norman, can
you read?
Michael: I thought you could....
Martha (grabbing the scroll away) Here, I can read..... wait this isn't
Portugese!
Leon grabs his scroll and ducks out
Exeunt omnes
I remain,
Etienne de Montagu

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