tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079699133524874886.post7248583146709852377..comments2024-02-10T03:44:06.593-06:00Comments on Sarmatian in the SCA: Armory in the SCAAritê gunê Akasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03619166885106439477noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079699133524874886.post-18691881242763430222011-07-18T00:22:31.566-05:002011-07-18T00:22:31.566-05:00The latter. Ex: Sometimes people create new attitu...The latter. Ex: Sometimes people create new attitudes (poses) for animals and such that they consider to be "in the spirit of period armory". Sometimes it is, and sometimes everyone realizes later on that, no, that wasn't such a good idea. This sort of thing happened more often when the SCA was first starting out. <br />I think the best example of creativity gone too far is the attitude "a cat in its curiosity". In period, there are sometimes specific attitudes for specific animals, like "pelican in its piety" or "peacock in its pride". Some earlier on (I'm guessing of the Wiccan persuasion) wanted a cat peeking over the edge of a cauldron. This doesn't actually work as an extension of period style because the specific attitudes of specific animals are very typical of them- Peacocks in their pride are male peacocks with their tails fanned out. Pelicans in their piety are wounding their breast to let their chicks drink their blood (they don't actually do this, but medieval people thought they did). Cats are very curious, but peeking into cauldrons is not inherent to that curiosity.<br />Other reasons for belated blocking are possible- if there were a symbol which people had registered, then someone realized it's offensive or vulgar, it would no longer be allowed. If the SCA had been around at the beginning of the 20th century, you would likely have seen a lot of swastikas in SCA armory because they were rampant in period armory. But since the Nazis used them, our minds equate them with ~not good at all~, so they're banned from used even though they're period because they're offensive now.<br /><br />The vice-versa is exemplified by the recent chevron ruling- V-shaped ordinaries should be at least half the height of the shield, nothing should fit between the point and the shield's edge, etc... This ruling was made to counteract the extremes of variation seen which made them less distinguishable- like being so flat as to almost be fesses (horizontal line ordinary). But the chevron and friends lecture I attended at KWHSS gave many, many, period examples of variation that were banned by the recent ruling. The ruling was overturned this week because of the collection of these examples with an amendment added to solve the original problem: period chevrons are located in the middle of available space, so SCA chevrons should be too. And they should also be not so flat as to be mistaken for fesses.Aritê gunê Akasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03619166885106439477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8079699133524874886.post-34072598311929530742011-07-17T20:14:21.465-05:002011-07-17T20:14:21.465-05:00"You'll see some things that used to be a..."You'll see some things that used to be allowed which no longer are and sometimes vice-versa." Like what? Are they things that were just overused, or things which have since been discovered to be not period?Rebekkah Nileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684711663696588263noreply@blogger.com