[Sca-cooks] RE: East's Burdened Tyger award

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius said:
> Also sprach Robert Newmyer:
>>As a recipient, I'll try to field your questions. The award is, as far as I
>>know and I could be way off on this, for direct service to the Crown at a
>>kingdom level event.
>
> It was my understanding that originally, the Burdened Tyger was for
> cooks or autocrats of events at which the Crown was present (and not
> necessarily kingdom-level), either for excellence or for quality
> under duress, i.e. making it look easy, or at least functional, when
> it wasn't.

Giving something for service that benefits the Kingdom as a whole
sounds a lot better than an award that is there just because someone
that benefited the Crown, given by the Crown.

> The award may not be given at the event for which it was
> earned. Recently (about five reigns ago? Either by Balfar and Luna,
> or Andreas and Isabella, I forget which) the award/order's definition
> was changed to include the reference to "service to the Crown".

Thank you. A bit for my East-hist-msg file. :-)


> And Stefan wrote:
>>  > Is there a similar but different award for doing the same thing when
>>>  the Crown is not present at an event?
>
> Well, the award is in the gift of the Crown (meaning there's no
> polling or anything, unlike the East Kingdom's four Orders of High
> Merit, which, BTW, are not grant-level awards, YHL Stefan...), so
> that would probably explain the clause about the Crown being present.

But isn't this always the case? I thought most awards were given on
the recommendation of others and only a few by direct knowledge of the
Crown.
Maybe it is a kingdom differance. Here there are no polling orders, even for the
Peerages, the laws say that the order only has to be "consulted" by the King.
They have no veto power and Peers have been made where the circle unanimously
voted against the individual. I believe Gunthar made mention of this a short
while ago, in fact.


> No, just harder to document outside the polling mechanism that some
> of our awards require by law, and of course the East Kingdom has the
> Order of the Silver Crescent as the more traditional polled "service
> to the kingdom" award. It's not like the provision doesn't exist.
> It's just that this isn't it. ;-)

Okay. Then this lessens the idea that only actions witnessed by the Crown are
important.


> Adamantius, whose own OBT is for valorous and continued function in a
> kitchen infested by nuns... very nice nuns, mind you, but no amount
> of cleaning or spraying could dislodge them

Nuns??? Please do tell.
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