[Coastal] Coastal Coordination

[Bill Butler]

(tossing in 2 coppers to the pot...)

Ansteorran Tabards.  Right sleeve - Defenders of the
Coast colors and left sleeve - group (Shire, Canton,
Baronial) badge.

William


--- benliz <benliz at ev1.net> wrote:
> Tessa writes:
>     Three years back, well four, really, when a
> coastal group was 
> organizing the Revival of the Guardian of the
> Gauntlet, which then was 
> held in April, 2002 at the BorderKeep, Rebeka,
> Ansgar, Leah, Simonn, 
> myself, and a committee of others including Armand
> and Caitrin De Lacy 
> tossed around the idea of a coastal "regional"
> device, because we were 
> all cooperating to make that event happen;  we
> really didn't push a 
> device, banner, because we felt/ feel so much to
> heart about being 
> Ansteorran. 
>     Every group did something to make Garudian of
> the Gauntlet Revival 
> happen. Stargate furnished the tables for feast;
> Bordermarch ministered 
> the lists and supplied the site-crats; Greywood
> cooked the feast and 
> furnished the marshal-crat; Sea Winds made the site
> tokens ... oh, they 
> were these nifty little velvet gauntlets about the
> size of your 
> thumb...;  Loch brought banners to spruce up the
> site; I surely 
> misremember some of this but it was like Gate's Edge
> sat gate and 
> Westgate helped set up and clean up.  Everybody
> pitched in on every 
> level with every task to make a successful regional
> event.  
>     Well... at these planning meetings which spanned
> 9 or 10 months, 
> we'd chew over the idea of a banner for Coastal.  
> Probably a black 
> field with a gold crescent (representing the shape
> of the coast) or vice 
> versa, yada, and an Ansteorra star in chief, or
> superimposed over the 
> crescent; with a line of embattlement dividing the
> chief.  You can tell 
> I am not a herald.
> 
> None of us ever did anything with paper work to
> start to register a banner.
> 
> Personally, blue is my very fav color, and it has
> become recognizable as 
> coast.  
> I like the idea of a "sleeve" badge to indicate
> local branches.
> And I'm highly in favor of black and gold, in which
> ever pattern results.
> Thank you, YrExcellencies of Bordermarch, for
> bringing up the idea again,
> Tessa
> 
> Hillary Greenslade wrote:
> 
> >--- coastal-request at ansteorra.org wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:58:18 -0500
> >>From: Kim Tucker <neassa at swbell.net>
> >>Subject: [Coastal] Coastal Coordination
> >>
> >>HE Caitrin De Lacy wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>  Here within our barony, some of us have been
> tossing around ideas 
> >>>for a Coastal Banner that would represent all
> groups within the 
> >>>Coastal Region. How does everyone feel about the
> Coastal Region having 
> >>>their on banner? This could be used at Wars,
> Coastal regional combined 
> >>>events, etc.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>This was what Stargate and the Loch had tried to
> do with the Defenders 
> >>of the Coast about 5-6 years ago. :-) We managed
> to bring together the 
> >>greater Houston area of Westgate, Gate's Edge,
> Loch Soillier and 
> >>Stargate, however the idea didn't catch on as much
> with many of the 
> >>other groups. Some of these groups were forming
> their own war bands at 
> >>the same time, or perhaps had something local
> already in place.
> >>    
> >>
> ><snip> 
> >  
> >
> >>I do have one strong recommendation: Make whatever
> heraldry we come up 
> >>with black and gold. :-)
> >>How does that sound?
> >>Neassa
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >I sorta recall the marshallate this year, was
> encouraging fighting units to wear the Ansteorran
> >gold & black tabard, so as to look like a horde of
> locusts in the war battles.   
> >
> >Keeping with that theme, each fighter in the Coast
> should wear to war an Ansteorran tabard, but
> >put a sleave dag on the left arm for their home
> branch badge, and a dag on the right arm for the
> >Coastal badge.  I sorta like the idea of keeping
> 'blue' in the Coastal badge as the Coastal region
> >forms the gulf water barrier to our kingdom.     
> >
> >My .02cents, Hillary 
> >
> >  
> >
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