[MR] Peerage confusion -- RE: Atlantia Digest, Vol 102, Issue 58

[Rick Allison]

There will always be thgose whoi feel they should be a peer because they did something for someone at one time or another,
just as there will always be those fighters who can pummel everyone and think they should be knights,
There will also always be those who think since I have been a meber XX years I should be a peer.
 
An ancient Knight and his Lady Laurel once told me several things about the peerages;
 
Peers are not made they arrive and are recognized
To be a peer act as a peer
The dream is not for the awards it's for your enjoyment.
 
Okay so the last is a bit hokey.  But the first two seem spot on.
Peerage awards have loose requirements so we can elevate and recognize those who make the game better for all.
 
by the way everyone I play this game with can fight competently, create a scroll or at least use some calligraphy, play chess, dance a step or two, perform at feast or court, field herald, blazon a device or two, sew some basic garments and construct basic armor and has a pretty good handle on their persona historyu, lineage and charactor.

Maybe I just got lucky ......    Naw that's what everyone who plays can do after a few years...
 
Laird Seanne Alansyn, the Forever Squire
aka, Rich Allison
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