SC - choosing a Persona

[Ana L. Valdés]

Thank you, Ras. As usual, your answer and your comments were witty, sensible and
very close the kind of comments I wanted to hear.
Do you have some concrete suggestions, about name, profession and location? I
must live in Holmvik (I think Stockholm is called Holmvik) and I wonder if I can
find a way to explain the presence of an Andalusian here. Maybe a scholar or a
diplomat. Or a musician, since Hildegarde is definitiv my favourite composer, and
one of my best friends in Stockholm is a professor in Latin, working with Corpus
Retorum, a collection of middle age singing and praying.
Ana, enthusiastic

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 8/4/99 5:33:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, agora at algonet.se
> writes:
>
> << My dilemma is: what kind of persona may I choose?>>
>
> What you are most interested in.
>
>  <<Which are the criteria
>  to choose a persona? >>
>
> See above.
>
> <<Should I choose a woman or a man? >>
>
> Either a man or a woman would be ideal since other people such as elves are
> unwelcome and prohibited from some events even though they were definitely a
> race of humans because they could interbreed with other humans.
>
> <<A noble or a bard
>  or a nun?>>
>
> All SCA personas are considered to be of noble birth. Bard would be a
> function of your persona should you choose that route. Although there are nun
> and monk personas, the organization as a whole frowns on religious persona
> (or indeed religious expression of any kind) (Ask me privately, I am a pagan
> and have a story or two to tell. :-)).
>
> <<Should I have someone from the Andalusian >>
>
> >From a personal viewpoint Andalusian would be the ideal persona. They are
> after all the most Western of European cultures which would be most logical
> if you interpret 'Western Culture' as specifying European culture which I
> don't despite the revisionist history of the SCA that has been promulgated
> the last couple of years.
>
> <<or from the Italian, from the
>  German or from the Nordic culture?>>
>
> Whatever floats your boat is my suggestion. Although Italian and Nordic is
> way overdone in the organization because it is easy to do, IMO.
>
>  <<My favorite middle age people are Eleanor of Aquitaine (mother of
>  Richard Lionhearted), Christine de Pisan (one of the most known woman
>  troubadour), Hildegarde of Bingen (abbess, musician and doctor), among
>  the women.>>
>
> Hildegarde is the greatest! (After Elizabeth I, of course :-)). I absolutely
> LOVE her music. She is my favorite musician of all time. ;-)
>
> << Among the men Gilles de Rais (accused to be the awful Blue Beard),
>  Leonardo, Dante, Erasmo of Rotterdam.
>  My "mundane" profession is a bard, since I am a writer and a journalist,
>  and a scientist, if you consider my anthropological education. Besides I
>  am a catholic, raised by German nuns and with a cousin who is a bishop.>>
>
> Women in the SCA occasionally do cross gender personas and few people make
> any comment about it although the reverse is inexplicably not true.
>
> << But I am fascinated by Spain during the Middle Age, a time and a place
>  there three religions and cultures could live and interact,....<snip> about
> the Spain before 1492.>>
>
> Then Andalusian sounds perfect for you, IMO. Welcome to the civilized world!
> :-)
>
>  <<My other fascination is the Crusades>>
>
> Overdone.
>
> <<And about Byzantium.>>
>
> Lack of period information in most areas outside martial or religious stuff.
>
> <<Believe the choose of a right "persona" can help me to develop abilities
> and knowledge ...etc.>>
>
> Exactly! You now have an understanding of part of the Dream! :-).
>
>  <>
>
> This is definitely an important factor. Good luck in your choice.
>
>  <<Thanks in advance
>  Ana >>
>
> No problem. :-)
>
> Yours in Service to the Dream,
>
> Ras
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