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Edward and Marguerite just held their first staff meeting. I'm so excited to be able to be part of their reign!!

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Thank you for saying so. Tourneys, a few. Courts, not so much.

Let me say this, just to add some historical data points to the issue. First, the idea of a "pocket herald" is not new: the concept has been around at least from my earliest days, when baron_elric of Erewhon frequently acted as such. Back then, doing royal courts was very much Brigantia's bailiwick -- Brigania was "the king's herald" -- so this was controversial, but baron_elric was so darned good no one really complained. So good, indeed, that I appointed him Jellinge Herald, which was an institutionalization of his "pocket herald" role. Yes, I later abolished the office. It wasn't personal, and I regret the unintended slight to this day. But that was almost 30 years ago.....

Now, OTOH, despite being perhaps the most experienced court herald in the entire realm, with several spiffy awards for court heraldry, I haven't been able to buy or steal a gig since Lucan III, and then only because my lady was queen. That's a datum, not a complaint. I'm trying not to whine, but it does show that (a) there is something, perceptually if not functionally, broken in the current state of affairs, and that (b) whatever that state of affairs is, it isn't new, but has perhaps gotten increasingly broken over the past 3 decades. To the point, IMO, where people are finally starting to notice.