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A few years ago a friend of mine was looking at fencing pics from one of the larger SCA wars (not Pennsic, but i dont remember where)and came across someone with our household's badge painted on their fencing mask. At Pennsic 39 I saw possibly the same mask laying by the rapier lists but it was crowded so I didn't bother trying to figure out who it belonged to. Later in the rapier woods battle there was a group of guys using the same device, but they were fighting for the other side so I rarely saw them.

The badge in question is a red scorpion on a colorless field, usually displayed on black.

Brotherhood of Nod?

olaf haraldson wrote:Brotherhood of Nod?

Sign me up. For the Brotherhood!

woodwose wrote:A few years ago a friend of mine was looking at fencing pics from one of the larger SCA wars (not Pennsic, but i dont remember where)and came across someone with our household's badge painted on their fencing mask. At Pennsic 39 I saw possibly the same mask laying by the rapier lists but it was crowded so I didn't bother trying to figure out who it belonged to. Later in the rapier woods battle there was a group of guys using the same device, but they were fighting for the other side so I rarely saw them.

The badge in question is a red scorpion on a colorless field, usually displayed on black.

Those are some of the Black Tigers, a rapier merc unit. I'm pretty sure I know the specific guy in question, who goes by Hadrurus (the genus of scorpion).

Isn't there a barony in New Mexico with a Scorpion as their device?

InsaneIrish wrote:Isn't there a barony in New Mexico with a Scorpion as their device?

al-Barran. Buy the t-shirt.