The letter M

[msmemory_archive]

Updating the OP, checking for registered names, spelling stuff, etc. Leading to all kinds of questions which could easily become digressions and keep me from making any progress at all.

Was Malkin Grey in the East or Atlantia when she got her Pelican? {I could go check Atlantia's split off date....]
Does Mairi still consider herself Eastern, and has she submitted that change of name yet?
Should I take Mahin out now that she resides in AEthelmearc?

Must concentrate. Want to finish three pages of the draft today. There are after all 103 pages in this edition.

Comments

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

Actually, shouldn't the phrasing of that be "The Crown of the East released her and the Crown of AEthelmearc accepted her petition for citizenship"? It doesn't matter what a subject declares, only what the Crown accepts.

As to the other, I'll ask her about whether the new name has gone through Laurel.

[patrikia.livejournal.com]

I am officially a subject of AEthelmearc, via Corpora (paperwork filed and everything). The new name has not been officially registered (I would explain, but, oh never mind! Teh stupid, it burnz!). -Mairi ni Raghaillaigh (aka Maria Agrissa Sgourina)

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

OK, like Mahin I'll take you out of the Alpha.

What about Mord? East or AEthelmearc?

[patrikia.livejournal.com]

Mord - still East! We joke that there is a line down the middle of the bed, and the citizenry rate goes up or down depending on which side of the line the cats are sleeping on... :-)

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

It can get pretty hinky, though. There is in my household a lady who lives in Meridies, has for decades now. She travels a lot, so much so we see her more than some local friends. She's an Easterner, always has been since she went to school here ~30 years ago. Doesn't go to Meridies events. She's frequently at Bridge and EK/RP events. She gets Pikestaff, not Popular Chivalry. Most people, I'm sure, think she's a Bridgie, or maybe a resident of Carolingia (which she once was). Keep in mind I don't think the Meridean Crown even knows she exists, so the "what the [Meridean] Crown accepts" (or releases) is moot. No "paperwork" has, to my knowledge, ever passed, beyond her checking off "Pikestaff" on her subscription form.

Exercise for the interested reader: Is she an Easterner or a Meridean?

Actually, I know the "answer"

[(Anonymous)]

By the rules as laid out in Corpora, she's Meridian. Which only matters if she wants to hold a kingdom office somewhere, be a territorial Baroness, or be fought for in a Pallatine barony, principality, or crown list.

In all other respects, there isn't any difference unless a local group's by-laws say so, and most don't. If you want to play, and work, and hold office at the local level, it's fine.

At that point, it's about the heart.

But then, I can say that--I'm not the precedence herald, and we all know what sticklers they can be. ;-)

Re: Actually, I know the "answer"

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

[sticklers]
Heh. Much of what I know I learned at Steffan's knee when I was only his protegee!

The anonymous comment

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

Ooops--that was me. I forgot I was logged out of LJ. My bad.