[MR] Re: On Titles,

[Nicole Spaun]

Please accept a question and a comment from a person not accustomed to 
Atlantia's laws...

First, the question... are Grants of Arms without any other award (such as a 
Court Baronage) common in these parts?  I'm from the East Kingdom and it 
seemed exceptionally rare there.  For that matter, I didn't see the practice 
much when I was in the West or Middle either.

Second, the comment...
>
>  A GoA is something to be rightly
>proud of and the recipients should be entitled to a distinguishment of
>address.
>

Some of us are rightly proud of our AoAs, as we're from groups where they 
are hard to achieve.  So if folks want to use a different title for 
independent GoAs (which are also certainly hard to achieve, hands down), 
then I think that's great so they won't be confused with us peons who are 
happy to have our wee AoAs.  Sorry for the air of sarcasm but in my old 
Barony (Carolingia, EK... which I love dearly but getting awards in a Barony 
that size was no small feat) no one ever got an AoA unless they'd been in 
for at least 4 years and highly visible (lesting they walked on water) so we 
took them to heart and think of them as things that we should be "rightly 
proud" to have as well.     Besides, everyone I know from EK with a GoA is a 
Court Baron so the title issue is solved... though that probably gets into 
the question of "Shouldn't landless Barons have different titles than Landed 
Barons?" which is another can of worms altogether...

Thank you in advance for answers to the question at the top of this,
~Bianca di Bari, AoA