Baronial Transition

The Candidates:

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Lord Aendru and Lady Enkara

Unto Their Majesties, Their Highnesses, Their Excellencies Maighstir Adhamh MacAoidh and Lady Malie bean MhicAoidh, Baron and Baroness of Rivenstar, Rivenstar Seneschal, the populace of Rivenstar, and Transition Officer of the Midrealm, do we, Lord Aendru and Lady Enkara send greetings and salutations.

We do by these words declare our intent to place our names before the Crown and populace as candidates to the positions of Baron and Baroness of Rivenstar. I hope that we are found worthy to serve the Midrealm and the Barony of Rivenstar in this capacity.

It is often said that "You always have a home in the Barony of Rivenstar". Rivenstar has always been our home in the SCA. We started out 1996 as new college students and loved to play the game in pursuit of "The Dream". During our 23 years we have been in and out of the society as work and school have allowed. During this time Enkara traveled extensively and attended SCA events on two different continents. We came back to Rivenstar in 2002 and we have never left. The Barony of Rivenstar is a special place where one can belong and be surrounded by our dearest friends. We help each other with the recreationsist dreams and also in our everyday lives. We see the Baronage as a wonderful chance to serve the populace of the barony we feel so close to.

Andrew has been involved in rapier combat since the beginning of his time in the SCA. He has been group rapier marshal and a youth marshal of Rivenstar. He has been involved with teaching new people interested in rapier combat and he studies and teaches German longsword with anyone who wants to learn. He has encouraged many people to explore brewing and blacksmithing as well as combat. He has dabbled in armored combat and has been a successful siege engineer, combat archer, and spearman. He was a regional sub commander for rapier at Pennsic and has recently picked up thrown weapons. He is always willing to share his knowledge with others or point them in the direction of others more knowledgeable.

Enkara currently holds two offices in Barony, she is currently Arts and Sciences Minister and Youth Minister. These offices have given her the opportunity to serve Rivenstar and the populace. She has worked to have a dedicated time for Arts and Sciences both in person and, since the pandemic, online gatherings. As youth minister she hopes to foster more families to become involved in Rivenstar by creating more offerings for youth. One such way was the creation of a quiet room for children needing a break from an event. This has prompted other events to have similar offerings for children. She has also been autocrat for several Three Saints Events and an Equestrian Symposium. She can often be found administering a list table or serving lunch. She is someone who is willing to help out when there is a need.

Our vision for the Barony of Rivenstar is one of inclusion and diversity. We hope to encourage new members in our group by learning from them. We must learn from our new members on how to create safe places to express themselves as well as encouraging diversity in our ranks. We must continue to work on communication and information exchange avenues such as online, social media, and traditional communications to continue to include everyone. We also believe that we need to learn from our long standing members to help utilize their experience and institutional knowledge to help our members and the kingdom. We have a lot of wonderful talent in Rivenstar and I am sure we can work together to tap these amazing resources. As a barony we are facing many issues from the real world that matter to all of us in the society. Member recruitment and retention is one of the areas that the entirety of the SCA is working to solve. We believe we are uniquely suited to help. For the last 15 years we have had a Household that caters to new people and transitions them to independence in the SCA. New people need an environment to ask questions and guidance to understand the workings of the society. It takes work and dedication to encourage a new person to invest themself in the SCA. We do understand that if we are chosen for the baronage that we will put the household on hold until we are finished with our term. That will not discourage us from encouraging SCA members to be their best.

Thank you for your consideration,

Lady Enkara of Rivenstar
AOA, Award of the Purple Fret
Baronial awards: Order of the Rivestar, Defender of Rivenstar, and Order of the Silver Acorn

Lord Aendru of Darkhorse
AOA, Companion of the Cavendish Knot
Baronial awards: Order of the Rivenstar, Defender of Rivenstar

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Master Sigulf Karlnar OP, OL

I would like to serve the Barony as your baron. I feel I am well suited for this job in the following ways. In the past I have served the Middle Kingdom as regional seneschal for the Constellation. As the Constellation Seneschal I guided the initial formation of three groups, assisted a group that was experiencing internal tension work toward compromises that allowed the group to continue and worked as a liaison and first point of contact for the groups to the Kingdom Seneschal and Crown. Following this I took on the now defunct position of Deputy Kingdom seneschal - Publications. In this position I was responsible for the printing, sales and distribution of various kingdom hand books.

Within the Barony of Rivenstar I have served as Minister of Arts and Science. I also serve as the Merchant Liaison for the yearly events as well as assisting where I am needed. For many years as a fighter I actively assisted the training of new fighters.

If I have the honor of serving as Baron Rivenstar I would like to guide the barony in finding ways to do community outreach that will allow us to attract and keep new member and raise the awareness to the community for all the great things offered by the SCA. Mosey Down Main Street is a great beginning but I look forward to assisting the Barony in finding new venues to show the Lafayette/West Lafayette community all we have to offer. We in the SCA have so much more to offer new members, fighting of all styles have a great pull but there is so much more we can show off.

We need to continue to have a presence on the Purdue campus as well as reach out to Ivy Tech, finding new ways to attract the "next generation" of new SCA member. In these rough and changing times this will need a new vision to attract people that have less free time and more options both live on campus and virtually.

Any ideas I may have are only the start of what we can do. I am and will always be open to ideas from you and encourage you to come to me with you thought and concerns. Together we will continue to make the Barony of Rivenstar and the SCA great and the family we all want to be a part of.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Master Sigulf Karlnar OP, OL

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