🚀 go-pugleaf

Greetings from Arval!  Aindreas wrote:

>    Rather than seek a royal herald, your local group might consider
> holding a small kingdom event and, after stating your case respectfully
> that it HAS been a rather long time since you have seen a crown in your
> area and there are many who might deserve some small recognition...

You are assuming that the royalty should visit every group, that it is
possible for them to do so, and that it is better for the award to come from
the Crown personally, rather than through an intermediary.

The first is a matter of opinion.  In some of the larger kingdoms, the
second is simply impractical.  The third is also a matter of opinion, and
several people have expressed exactly the opposite opinion, that an award
given by a good, local friend means more than one given by a distant,
anonymous figure.  

All these points refer back to the earlier discussion with William de
Corbie over how much we should focus on the Crown as the single significant
figurehead in our kingdoms.  As he noted, we could easily decentralize
royalty powers, and there would be significant advantages and disadvantages
to that change.  Like most things in the SCA, it is something that will
(and should) vary from kingdom to kingdom and from reign to reign.

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Arval Benicoeur                                       mittle@watson.ibm.com