This site is should be mirrored at my tripod page and my hypothetical.net page.
I welcome thee into my humble abode. You may need to duck or step over something, but I am most positive that you will find your way around with ease. I do find myself literate, but I do hope you pardon me if I stumble upon my words. For I am still learning. I still get ink all over my gentle hands... So you may challenge me to a duel with the pen or sword, though the sword is still my favorite to use. That is how my scribe was injured, so now I am doing this myself. If it pleases you, I shall tell you a little about myself.
Salutations! I am m'lady Kassandra Schizandra. I was known as Arianna the
Inquisitive in Atenveldt, Æthelmearc, and Midrealm. My device passed and it is registered under Arianna
of Atenveldt. The rose is purple and is
above the purple panther (yes it's a panther not a house
cat)...
February 2001 UPDATE:
Corrections are as follows: The device registered under
Arianna of Atenveldt in April 2000 is:
Argent,
a winged natural panther sejant affronty, in chief a rose purpure
barbed and seeded vert.
You can usually find me wearing purple or green of some sort. I've been to be near the fighting field, waterbearing (making sure the fighters drink plenty of water), bellydancing, and camp-hopping all night at war.
My current persona is late 15th-16th century Swiss-German. One hard area to find info on. And yes there are other equally hard or more difficult areas to research. I dabble in just about everything, so you will find a myriad of SCA topics here. I was on a pilgrimage in 2000. I went to Estrella War, Gulf Wars, Pennsic War XXIX, and various smaller events. I was able to spend time in Meridies, Trimaris, Aethelmearc, Midrealm, and East Kingdoms. The beginning of 2001 found me in The Shire of Hunter's Home. I did some work on their website. In 2001 I attended Pennsic War XXX and a couple of smaller events in Æthelmearc and Trimaris. The beginning of 2002 found me in the Incipient Shire of Rivenvale. And to complete the semi-circle across the known world, in Coeur du Val, An Tir.
Right now this page is mostly links. It should help with researching SCA topics on the net. If you don't know much about the Society of Creative Anachronism, visit their site. You should be able to locate your local SCA branch.
I thank Hypothetical Industries for the server space this site is on.
Atenveldt has it's own mailing list see it's page for more info. There are also SCA rapier (aten-rapier), historical rapier(rapier-l), A&S, bluefeather lists. As well as others I may not know of. You can also check out the rialto at rec.sca.org. It's an SCA newsgroup. Many SCA groups now have their own mailing lists, hosted on their servers or on what used to be known as egroups, now at yahoogroups.
Rapier Links I'm hoping you can find anything SCA rapier-oriented (particularly schlagers) within 2-3 links/clicks from this page. Lots of research, still expanding... Atenveldt is a schlager only kingdom. I included a few generic fighting links. I will eventually separate them from the rapier page, but until then…
Arts and Sciences dance (w/ cheat sheets), food, garb, illumination, miscellaneous (pavilions and period furniture)
Persona links Do you know who you are? persona, heraldry, and cultures also includes links to mid eastern, drumming, irish, gaelic, celtic... A good start is usually the Academy of St. Gabriel.
War links Have you been to a war lately? Including links to Estrella, Pennsic, Gulf Wars…
Some SCA links Misc. links that I haven't categorized yet.
Some of my favorite SCA groups ones I've lived in, visited, liked...
A list of some of my interests in the SCA definately non-inclusive of all my talents ;-)
The SCA Purity Test Take it. You must take this test. Give it to your friends. The lower your score, the badder/better you are... ha-ha
My Favorite Sites Online I'm including interesting homepages that I really liked along with some friends' pages. It only touches on some of my varied interests.
SCAdians have visited this page as of December 2000.