[MR] 4th Peerage

[mweymark at carolina.rr.com]

Personally I think non-heavy combat has been too long ignored in the Peerage community.  The rapier, archery, thrown weapons populous give every bit as much, to the game we all adore, as the Heavy fighting, A&S and service communities.  Why should they not be recognized on a peerage level for that contribution??

Now the question of "do they fit into an existing Peerage"?? No I dont think they do.  Yes rapier (for example) is both an art and a science, however in that light so is heavy fighting, so a rapier fighter can no sooner be considered a Laurel as a heavy fighter could. And the fact that heavy fighting has its own peerage would say that in all fairness non-heavy combatents should have their own.  Lets face it, there are certainly some rapier fighters out there that have honed their craft to such a degree as to have achieved Mastery in their craft, this point can not be argued, so why not award them with a title of that achievment???

Just my two cents.

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Caterine St. Loe
"the Good 'Prentice"
Chateaux Ferneaux

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> New peerage...I'm a 'half and half' - 1st half: what's wrong with the 3 we
> have? 2nd half: the non heavy armored martial arts could use some love, but
> is it 'art' (A&S) or 'belt' worthy :) dunno, not my call.
> 
> Miriel