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Eep! I swear I won't whine about my backlog scroll. It could be much much worse. hrj just got her Laurel scroll from 25 years ago!

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[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Back when Johannes von Narrenstein was Tyger Clerk, there had been an extensive backlog, which he spent a good part of his tenure clearing up. He eventually did clear up the entire list, and to signal it, he saved the best for last. He entered Royal Court, removed the scroll from a case, and blew on it, scattering the "dust" (talcum powder, I think). I got to read it: it was Adrienne of Toledo's county scroll.

Now, you have to understand, Maragorn and Adrienne were the first king and queen of the East. (I've heard some kingdoms acknowledge M&A's successors, Bruce and Florence, since M&A were actually appointed by the kingdom seneschal, to preside over the first crown tournament. But I digress: we count M&A as first). Now, there's no record of M&A bestowing any awards. Nor is there any record of awards from B&F, and in any case, the comital ranks of M&A would have been the first award bestowed in their reign...had comital rank existed then, which it didn't. So, when you parse it all out, in theory, this would have been the earliest award in the history of the East Kingdom, ever.

Adrienne, sadly, wasn't there, but folks who knew her were, and the scroll did get to her.

'Speth and I were staying at a B&B run by a Scadian-friendly lady and her (then) husband. Turns out they're fringe-Scadian themselves. They only attend Pennsic, due to the business, but she's the daughter of a very well-known peer in another kingdom. Her husband tells me on the sly that she got an AoA in her youth, but never got a scroll, and since I'm a big-shot herald %^) can I do something about it as a surprise to her?

Turns out I could: I confirmed the AoA on the Other Kingdom's order of precedence. I was close to the king and queen that reign, Brigantia Herald was my former protege, and everyone readily agreed to issue the backlog scroll. But it gets better. The king of Other Kingdom was in the Eastern king's household, and was planning to attend EK court anyway.

I composed, not a backlog AoA, but a confirmation of arms, attesting to the fact that the heralds of the East, having been directed by their Oriental Majesties diligently to enquire of our colleagues in Other Kingdom, had confirmed that there was recorded in the archives of the Other Kingdom College of Heralds, yadda-yadda-yadda. It had spaces for the signatures of the crowns and principal heralds of both kingdoms. Not something you see every day.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Sorry, those anecdotes were supposed to be hidden behind two lj cuts.

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[metageek.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think cuts work in comments.