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Greetings from Arval!  Gwenllian wrote:

> We are denying the Hungarians one specific charge -- which is only found
> in their culture -- not the remainder of their armory. 

I'm afraid you are incorrect.  Lord Laurel discussed this charge in the
cover letter to his latest LoAR and observed that the green mount on a blue
field is found throughout Europe.  He returned a submission using it,
despite extensive documentation.  His argument, which I find moderately
more palatable than Tadhg's (though no more convincing), is that he must be
careful not to allow too many exceptions to the standard style rules, lest
the rule system become too complex to be usable.  This is the "poor, dumb,
local herald" argument, which starts by insulting our officers and populace
in assuming that they are too stupid to understand that a complicated art
cannot be reduced to idiot-proof rules, and continues to insult the entire
Society by concluding that the only solution is to reduce everything to the
lowest common denominator.

Your statement, Gwenllian, is also somewhat deceptive, as it suggests that
the elimination of the green mount + blue field is only a minor
inconvenience for SCAdians with Hungarian personae.  That combination
occurs in well over 80% of all recorded Hungarian armory (according to
research by Stefan Laskowski).  The effect is comparable to telling people
with English persona that they MUST put color on color: It forbids them the
most appropriate practice for their personae.

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Arval Benicoeur                                       mittle@watson.ibm.com