[Sca-cooks] Western traditions and killing off Royalty

[Sue Clemenger]

Not just Mists or Caid.  Artemisia had quite the tradition of it, when 
we were a principality.  It was just schtick.  Usually quite funny, and 
always different (depending on the prince/ess who were leaving).
It pretty much got abruptly dropped when we became a kingdom (although 
there's an occasional echo of it now and again), and frankly, I missed 
it!  It gave a bit of uniqueness and humor to something that otherwise 
sometimes seemed like hours and hours of stuffiness, thankyous and 
presentations that you couldn't hear.
--just another viewpoint, from Maire

Stefan li Rous wrote:

>   Viscountess Katira replied to me with:
> 
>> Another interesting inter-kingdom difference is the way Royalty change.
>> Some years ago, I was horrified when the Mists Royalty changed in a 
>> hostile
>> takeover!  I was told that in other Kingdoms this was normal!?!
> 
> 
> Yes, this surprised me too, when I first saw it discussed on this list 
> and elsewhere. This isn't the tradition in Ansteorra.
> 
>> Well, I
>> have since experienced a stabbed and dying Prince give the 
>> Principality to
>> his heir and a Prince who decide to become a monk.
> 
> 
> For more of these stories take a look at this file in the SCA-STORIES 
> section of the Florilegium:
> royal-deaths-msg (35K) 7/24/05   Stories of the best SCA royal deaths.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/STORIES/royal-deaths-msg.html
> 
>> Personally, I much
>> prefer the joyful and regal transfer of Crowns and Coronets to the heirs.
>> Many HAPPY tears.   And why, I ask, did all the examples above happen
>> in the Principality of the Mists?
> 
> 
> Perhaps because the Principality of the Mists includes the mundane city 
> of Berkley? Hardly a "mundane" city, at least in the 60s. But then that 
> is where the SCA started, which seems appropriate.
> 
> Actually though, these theatrical deaths seem more like something that 
> would come out of Caid and Hollywood. :-)
>