[MR] "Blue Scarfs" and "Free Scholars"?

[Aedan Aylwyn]

And in case anyone is curious about the scarf colors and design...

The blue and yellow colors were pulled from the colors in Atlantia's arms.
White was left out at first because of the WS treat being a long term, hoped
for goal.  Green was also an option but didn't get used.

During the 12th Night in Black Diamond (Jan '96), Cuan and Brigit were on
the throne and discussing the signing of the WS treaty.  A strong concern
was that we maintain our strong focus on Atlantia. As I like to say, we are
Atlantians that happen to fight rapier, not rapier fighters that happen to
live in Atlantia. To that end, we were looking at variations on the plain
white scarf to use for our soon to be order.

Isobel came up with a number of design suggestions.  In a boisterous closed
door meeting in the hotel with Cuan, we settled on using the blue pale and
unicornate seahorse on our white scarf.  We were the first kingdom to
distinguish by law (as opposed to early signatories that sometimes would add
personal arms or Kingdom colored trim but only by not always followed
custom).

Aedan

PS That was the infamous 12th Night that became 13th Night, 14th Night and
even 15th Night for some where we got snowed in and the interstates were
closed for days.