[Steppes] Twelfth Night -- major decision in front of us.

[AlKudsi at aol.com]

I have a question.  Since when do we have to have a kingdom-level event to 
award a local titled position?  I thought that a Baronial Court would be 
sufficient for Artisan, and Baronial courts can be at any local event.  It IS true, 
according to Corpora and Kingdom law, that awards that grant precedence (i.e. 
include an AoA or other Kingdom-level award) can only be given at a 
Kingdom-calendar event, but if I am remembering correctly, Artisan was NOT a calendar 
event for quite a few years and the title does not grant precedence.  There is no 
reason why, therefore, other than the reflected glory of possible Crown 
presence, that Artisan must be a calendared event.  Buy an advertisement in the 
Black Star, and post the announcement to the Ansteorran list, and we will get 
artisans!  It will not lose any luster, actually, since it is one of the premier 
A&S events in any case.
 
Now, this does NOT mean we should not consider Master Robin's idea of making 
12th Night a Regional event (well, in my definition, it is already a 
Kingdom-level event because of the usual amount of kingdom business conducted there 
regularly), or our new Baroness' ideas, but we need to consider the ideas in 
their proper context.  
 
Personally, I would like to see more regional events -- one of the reasons I 
have been touting the Rosenfeld demo -- because I think we would see more 
people become active at the events if the events were not a six-hour drive away.  
This is a BIG kingdom, and with gas continuing to rise in price, regional 
events may be the only sane way to continue to have events outside of local 
events.  But to feel that Artisan MUST be either combined with another event (a bad 
idea, in my view), or to drop one of the two largest events in the kingdom as 
a Steppes event is, as her soon-to-be-Excellency intimated, thinking only 
within the box -- when the box isn't necessary at all.
 
HL Saqra al-Kudsi
Steppes Artisan  
 
 



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