Squire Pyat Q. Wiltboggle of the Lower Alimentary Tracts

[pyat]

ruiskafleck and wggthegnoll were over today, the first time we've seen them since their wedding, almost exactly a year ago. Well, aside from a 45 second conversation at FanExpo.

We had a pleasant afternoon of conversation and sewing. Yes, sewing. velvetpage and ruiskafleck combined their talents to create me a sort faux-Medieval tunic. velvetpage and may be descending even deeper into dorkdom, and joining the Society for Creative Anachronisms! We're going for generic vaguely medieval for our first event, but if we like it, we'll need to create personas. wggthegnoll noted that one can choose any culture from the period between 600 AD and 1600 AD, provided it had contact with Europeans. This makes me sort of wonder if I shouldn't go for an Aztec from the time of the Spanish conquest...

I'm sure that would go over well at SCA functions.

"Glory unto Huitzilopōchtli for this delicious mead! Death is the road to awe! Hey, who made that mail for you?"

More seriously, I was thinking just going with my Dutch heritage, but sadly the 1600 cutoff date just misses Holland's golden age of empire and culture.

Comments

[anidada.livejournal.com]

I dunno... Aztec garb doesn't seem compatible with our weather outside of, say, July. ;)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Cold weather is just Huitzilopōchtli's way of asking for more sacrifices to make the Sun rise!

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

At one crown tourney, many years ago there was a contender for the crown who had an Aztec persona. For a weapon, he used a representation of the obsidian spiked club, and wore jaguar armor.

I'm rejoining soon. So I can come up and visit when there's an event.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's very cool. :) How well did he do?

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

He came close that year. For all I know he made it to the top while I've been on hiatus. There's been *Japanese* royalty too. Imagine what the uber Euro-centric folk thought of that.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The Japanese would make more sense than the Aztecs - they were actually sending delegations to visit the Pope and what not, before 1600.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

The whole *anyone we made contact with* came about with people wanting to do Arabic and Mongol at first. Though you've got a wicked big spread of time in which to play already. Used to be some stretched it to 1650. I was one of those who cheated with red velvet cavalier made from auditorium curtains. A little bit of lace, big feather in the cap? Babe magnet. Though, Erin is going to be a magnet herself, I'm telling you. Just watch.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Erin will be a babe magnet...? Goodness. :)

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Yes, she will, for babes of either gender.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

More seriously, I was thinking just going with my Dutch heritage, but sadly the 1600 cutoff date just misses Holland's golden age of empire and culture.

Most SCAers won't stand on nitty details like that, and the rest you can challenge to a duel!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Heh. True.

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

I used to be part of it, back when I was in college. I even got Authorized for heavy combat. I ended up departing because I left the university. I didn't really have the money to stick with it, because making the armor, while not prohibitively expensive, required a little too much financial outlay that I could spare at the time.

I think the Aztec persona would be super neat. It would require a bit of research to make sure you stay in character, but if you're enough of a history nerd, it'd be well worth it.

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention, the name I came up with for my Period Persona was Leonard Arlotte.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ah! I had wondered.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think the Aztec persona would be super neat. It would require a bit of research to make sure you stay in character, but if you're enough of a history nerd, it'd be well worth it.

I'm thinking it would necessarily limit interactions with people in certain ways, though. And, as anidada pointed out, stereotypical Aztec clothing is not very "Canada Climate" friendly.

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Well Holland's war for independence from Spain had begun well before that cut-off, so you get the beginnings of that golden age - Sea Beggars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geuzen) and what not.

Of course, it wouldn't be terribly medieval, but they had nice swords in that period :)

Although the Aztec idea is nice. Or you could do Iroquois - that could be awkward, though... Oooo - or a Jesuit - or a Teutonic Knight, who hunts pagan peasants for fun and sport!

Or, you know, maybe not...

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think I might just be a Jedi. *nods*

[nottheterritory.livejournal.com]

Well they aren't specific about 'a long time ago', it's true. My impression of the SCA's stringency about character persona was permanently coloured when I met "The Renaissance Man" in university - one of those eternal students who just kept kicking around Trent in his generously sized, anacronistic clothes, who explained to me one day that he had solved the problem of era by playing an immortal who had been alive through the whole range of the SCA's target dates.

Hmmm - maybe you should play a time traveling Bruno Von Boots - "I haf come to subjigate you all - vear my magic-candle veapon!"

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

I love the Aztec thing, both for how alien it is to the SCA tradition, and for the chance to piss-take yet another culture that richly deserves it. I think you could get around the too-much-exposed-skin problem; just say you're from a parallel world where the Aztec Empire expanded north, and that you're a minor noble from the Lands of Chalmecatl.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Hmm... what I really want to be is a time traveller, though!

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Time-traveling Aztec warriors with "Roar of Acolnahuacatl" man-portable smart missiles!

Yes, I have read Mick Farren's _Necrom_ and Ernest Hogan's _High Aztech_ entirely too many times. And only the latter remotely deserves it.

[thebitterguy]

Make sure you paint lots of dots on yourself.

"No, I seem to be coming down with something. I'm sure it's nothing!"

Then give someone a tomato.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Excellent ideas! :)