Re: Fealty (fwd)

[Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>]

Poster: Mark Schuldenfrei <schuldy@abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU>

Greetings from Tibor.

The learned and informed Senhor Pedro wrote:
  SCA fealty has little, if anything, to do with mediaeval fealty.
  First, we confuse it, on occasion, with homage, which, to be
  true, is very easy to do. Second, aside from our landed barons,
  the usual bond between a lord and his men-land-cannot be used.

I frequently take issue with assertions of the second sort.

In the real world, I am not a Savoyard, nor a Lord or Baron.  I'm just some
guy with neato (albeit unusual) hobbies.

Within the Society we consensually play a game where we pretend to such
lands and titles.

Some of our lands are semi-imaginary: like Storvik, which corresponds to a
real place, or Windmasters Hill, which is the same.

Why can we not play at imaginary lands between two people of suitable rank?

I hold all lands owned by Lord Sebastian du la Maine Gauche that lie north
of Magnolia field... in turn I have given land to hold to two vassels of my
own.  As a court Baron, I have chosen to call the lands I hold Delfcroft,
after my arms.

None of that land holds physical presence.

Then again, the Baron of Storvik must pay full fare for a ride on the Metro,
right?  His rights are imaginary (if agreed upon) even if the land is real.
What is wrong with pretending that the rights are real even if the land is
also imaginary?

	Tibor
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