<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Their Royal Majesties, Aaron and Nicollet, and Their Stellar Highnesses, Sven and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Antigone, are entreated to hear these humble words of petition from Maistir Tadhg</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">macÁedáin uíChonchobhair, OL, and
Honorable Lady Meraud de Dun Carraig.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">We seek the indulgence of Your Majesties and Your Highnesses in considering our</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">application to succeed Their Excellencies Orlando and Caterina as Baron and Baroness of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Namron. We come to this request only after discussions within our family and with the encouragement of various Peers, Nobles and members of the populace.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Within this folio, please find separate papers documenting our 25-year sojourn through</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">the Society. We earnestly hope
that You will find within these pages adequate</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">qualifications for this noble post.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">More important are our goals and plans regarding the exercise of our duties as Baron and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin
Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Baroness—should we be called upon to fill those positions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Our goals are simple: encourage the growth of the group and foster stability in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Barony. We believe that in pursuing these goals Namron will find anew the glory it has</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">known so well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">With regard to growth of the Barony, we have two principal concerns: the overall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">number of active members and the personal growth of each member. In spite of enjoying</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">a vital and dynamic canton, Namron remains one of the smaller baronies in Ansteorra.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">We feel it is essential that the population be increased through encouraging the return of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">older members who have drifted away and actively recruiting new members—especially</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial,
sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">by retaining new recruits from the University of Oklahoma’s Medieval Faire.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">In addition, a positive political atmosphere must be encouraged within the Barony as the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">contrary has tended to drive other members out. While this speaks more to the issue of</span></div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">stability, the goal is for Namron to continue and increase its ability to support the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Kingdom through the active participation of all who live within its borders. These</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">members—both new and old—must be given a welcome place to work, learn, and grow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">We wish to foster an environment which provides equally for all endeavors: fighters,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">artisans, and those of service alike. The Barony must be a place where all can pursue</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">their own individual portion of The Dream. The Dream belongs to no one person, no</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">single
viewpoint—It is a shared thing, made richer by each and every person. Only</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">through all their combined works will the Barony flourish as a gem in the North.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">With regard to stability, we can but pledge our sincerest efforts to bring it to pass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Namron has earned past notoriety but we believe that Orlando and Caterina have helped</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">to make this a thing of the past. We pledge to continue that success and feel prepared to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">weather whatever issue may come. To that end, we feel certain qualities are necessary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',
sans-serif;">for each person in these offices: the will must be strong; the ears must be good; the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">judgment must be fair; the heart must be compassionate; and when the need arises, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">countenance must be resolute. All these things are necessary to ensure the Baron and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Baroness are noble representatives of Your Majesties, and we feel our 25 years
have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">allowed us to obtain all these qualities.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Through our travels and our times in the Society, we have found one true philosophy in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">every good
Baron, Baroness, and Seneschal: the individual must wait while the office is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">served. When anyone sees fit to take such offices as these, they must lay aside their</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">personal goals, their personal concerns and grievances, and often their personal rights.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">When they take up these mantles, they become the Office. Whatever priorities they had</span></div><div
class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">as individuals are subsumed by the priorities of the Barony—the well being and health of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">the Barony are paramount. It is imperative to understand that personal attacks against</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">them are part and parcel of their position—retaliation is not. My wife and I have both</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34,
34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">served in the seneschallate—we both know the price of that office and we believe it to be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">an essential precursor for the Baron and Baroness. The location matters little; the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">experience itself is indispensable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">All too often we have heard the older members pine for a bygone day when things were</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">simpler and richer. It is our sincere conviction that such times are not in the past but are</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">simply in need of rediscovery. Our Barony moves toward the future; Its place is there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">We wish only the opportunity to aid Its travel to that new place before us. We are</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">committed to that vision and feel able to undertake whatever works are necessary if You</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">should judge us worthy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">As Barone Orlando and Baronessa Caterina have done such an outstanding job during</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Their tenure, we foresee small changes that will reinforce the great strides they have</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">made: grow the feeling of community in a time where technology has worked to distance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span
style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">us, expand the welcome for families, and enforce the importance of pageantry and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">presentation for the SCA—inside and outside of meetings and events.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">It is our hope that these words have not been too lengthy. Your Time is precious and we</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">hope we have not overspent it on this petition.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">We extend our sincerest thanks for Your Consideration in this matter. May God grant</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">You Strength and Wisdom in Your Works and
Travels.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">As ever we remain Your humble servants,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Tadhg Meraud</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">To this missive we put our hands, this 20th day of January, A.S. XLVIII in the Barony of</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.0001pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book', sans-serif;">Namron, Kingdom of Ansteorra</span></div></div></body></html>