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And then David Greenebaum said...
 DG> On the subject of hire-a-herald for challenge tournies, how does this
 DG> practice jibe with the idea that a herald on duty is the voice of the
 DG> Crown?  At the very least, I should think that a herald delivering a
 DG> personal challenge from one fighter to another should be acting as a
 DG> private citizen, devoid of green tabard/baldric.

Greetings, Bjalfi!  I see you changed the spelling of your last name
so that it's pronounceable! (It used to be a lot more complex than
Thordharson, didn't it?)

A few Crown Tourneys back (where Lucan won), fighters were encouraged to
bring their own heralds for the later rounds of the tourney.  My lord
husband Marco, who is man-at-arms to Aethelwyn Aethelredson and the herald
for Aethelwyn's fighting unit the Golden Swarm, made a special tabard for 
the occasion.  It was quarterly vert and sable, the vert sections bearing
the crossed-trumpets badge or, and the sable bearing the locust or badge
of the Golden Swarm fighting unit.  Now, strictly speaking, that wasn't
quite proper, since the crossed-trumpets badge belongs to the King's
heralds.  However, the tabard says loud and clear to Joe SCAdian that
the wearer is a herald connected with "those guys with the bug badge."
It also looks way spiffy.  

I definitely think that heralds delivering private challenges should be
wearing the personal livery of the fighter they're speaking for, rather
than Official King's Voice clothing.

Yours &c.,

Ariane Baccadoro

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