Barony of Stormhold

The overriding theme in Stormholds' A&S activities and competitions will be one of persona development. Inspired by other competitions around the known world, the aim is to explore what your persona may have known about, experienced, or done in your chosen time period.

A&S meetings will still be held once a month, and will act as an introduction to topics that can be further discussed or worked upon at Kensington Hall, and there is a chance to show your new skills with a competition held at Monthly Bash. A lot of these competitions are documentation-based, as they deal with persona development.

We're making silk banners.

Our process is based on the banners made by Southron Guard and documented here

Other groups in Lochac have made banners of all different sizes and I've collected scale drawings of them all.

Here is a closeup of the proposed Stormhold personal banner To the right of the Stormhold or Lochac device, it is intended that members of the populace put their own design/device. The two stripes are for your motto or a patch of solid colour. The stripes are optional.

Heraldry is the practice of designing, displaying, describing, and recording coats of arms and badges. The origins of heraldry lie in the need to distinguish participants in combat when their faces were hidden by iron and steel helmets. Eventually a system of rules developed into the modern form of heraldry.

In the SCA, heraldry is concerned with ceremonies and Courts, the crying of announcements and proclaimations, the pomp and circumstance of the Tournament, and the authentication and registration of members' persona names and arms or badges. These areas of interest give rise to the terms "court heraldry" and "field (or list) heraldry" (both also known as "voice heraldry") and "book heraldry" (which also includes the background work and research in arranging ceremonies).

The SCA has its own College of Arms.

Below are examples of heraldry for notable members from Stormhols past:

The Barons and Baroness of Stormhold

Styvren Longshanks and Rhyllian of Starfire Retreat

Alain Lorenz and Lucrezia Lorenz

Sven Stormdriven and Ingabjorg Ambasdottir

Rudolf von der Drau and Nicollette Dufay

Gwynfor Llwyd and Gwir ferch Madog

Hugh the Little and Teresa Cummins

This link is a pdf of the cross stitch for the basic Stormhold device

This is the device for the Baron of Stormhold drawn by a noted artist of the Baron, Lord Claas Jongkrijger de Leeuw, for the second Baron and Baroness of Stormhold, Alaine and Lucrezia.