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- From: schuldy@progress.COM (Mark Schuldenfrei)
- Subject: Re: Annual Xmas Depression; moan, weep, gnash
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:07:30 GMT
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- Mikjal Annarbjorn makes a few suggestions for Drachenwald Kingdom Law.
-
- I'm not a member of Drachenwald, and I have not seen the current version
- of the laws, but I have seen a draft version. I thought I'd respond.
- I will point out that it is MUCH TOO LATE to change the laws of
- Drachenwald. If things are meeting the schedules I think they are,
- the packet for consideration by the Board is already on its way
- (or will be soonest), and the laws have to be part of that packet.
-
- ------
- 1) Don't succumb to the "Award/Grant/Patent" of arms nonsense for
- kingdom honors. [ . . . ] Treat the above as an "naked" AoA, to make the
- Corpora lawyers happy.
-
- Their law doesn't specify anything about Awards/Grants/Patents. except that
- former monarchs may be granted a Patent when they step down. I did point out
- three things to them, when I reviewed the laws. For one, Corpora allows them
- to bestow Grants, but they didn't mention anything about them. Two, they
- intended to award membership in the Order of the Rose with an Award of Arms:
- Corpora requires a Patent or nothing. Three, they did not include an order
- of precedence in their laws.
-
- This means that, if they listened to my advice, they may have addressed the
- issues since I wrote my letter. I dunno if they did.
-
- ------
- 2) Don't hold elimination Crown Tourneys. Have a challenge tourney,
- or a round robin format, or a series of "days" a la Bjornsborgs's
- Tournement of Lions.
-
- Their preliminary Kingdom Law makes no mention of this. For that matter,
- neither does Corpora, nor East Kingdom Law. (Well, EK Law specifies a
- double elim sort of list if the Seneschal is forced to supervise a Crown
- Tourney when the Crown is held in regency).
-
- ------
- 3) Replace the inauthentic fealty and homage oaths us Americans foisted
- on you with versions of authentic medieval oaths. (Unfortunately, you
- will have to remove the religious references, but swearing on relics can
- be replaced with swearing on the sword of state or the crowns or some
- such.)
-
- The East Kingdom does not have standard oaths, so our former Principality
- has never been burdened by them. Hey, while your at it Mikjal, throw
- off *your* yoke...
-
- Tibor
- --
- Mark Schuldenfrei (schuldy@progress.com)
- [I'm just showin' you my opinions: this ain't a gift]
-