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I just couldn't let his topic be posted at the forum level without posting a rebuttal.

JP

Now that made my day. Thank you, Sir.

He might or might not suck, but i'll tell you this...I don't know if Revolution is the appropriate phrase to use yet, but he is certainly opening some eyes with "Anvil of Virtue" and has started something of a ground swell or ripple effect here in Atlantia since it was published.

Men at arms are offereing Ransom, and trying to speak plainly, yet in the High Speech here in Atlantia.

Just this past weekend at the Atlantian Tournement of Chivalry, HM Cuan ran a sceranio for a Grand Mellee where all fighters that had been dealt a good blow to the leg were required to find the one that bested them and offer themselves as prisoners for Ransom. (Providing that the man that threw the blow was a vassal of the King or one of his knights' vassals...) This encouraged much goodly speech and rich gifts to be bestowed. I am humbled at the ransom offered to me for a good squire of Duke Badioun whom I struck. (I asked for some small token for my lady, perhaps roving since she is a spinner, and that he do good service for his knight, and offer to cut meat and serve at table, in lieu of eating himself for Badioun and his lady at the next feast they attended together. I was offered a fine loom for my lady instead of the roving! )

Also, I hear that HM offered a special selective reading of the Anvil to many of his knights and thier squires who stayed with him at his estate friday before the tourney....but that is another story apparently...

So while Sir Vitus may indeed suck, he is doing as a knight should ~ INSPIRING.

Pax,
Byram

As far as my damn camp setup goes- I am just dropping the ball. Gotta get to work on new stuff.
As far as the purpose of the Anvil, if there is one thing that I have learned from all of my reading, it is that regardless of political affliation, the culture of "good men-at-arms" was almost like an international fraternity, and these men shared a common culture, that we now call "chivalry." We CAN re-create this culture, regardless of the limitations of the stuff that we lack...and even that is changing.
The Anvil was designed to help speed up the spread of the True Virus, from the bottom up, where the squires and men-at-arms struggle and strive. Most Peers should know about this culture, but many have forgotten it, or else they want to project their own culture upon the canvas, because it serves their purposes.
I will fight until my last breath to bring the true chivalric culture always to the center of the canvas.
All good men-at-arms are brothers in the pursuit of the Noble Life, or else they should be.
But I am screwing up in important departments, because of a temporary lack of funds (everything I can find is going to the wedding and to the honeymoon)...Gott think long-term. Gotta get to the next level of ultra spiffiness....
And I had to pay ransom to my own GREAT-grandknight this last weekend! I gave him a book of medieval illuminations.

Vitus wrote:As far as my damn camp setup goes- I am just dropping the ball. Gotta get to work on new stuff.
As far as the purpose of the Anvil, if there is one thing that I have learned from all of my reading, it is that regardless of political affliation, the culture of "good men-at-arms" was almost like an international fraternity, and these men shared a common culture, that we now call "chivalry." We CAN re-create this culture, regardless of the limitations of the stuff that we lack...and even that is changing.
The Anvil was designed to help speed up the spread of the True Virus, from the bottom up, where the squires and men-at-arms struggle and strive. Most Peers should know about this culture, but many have forgotten it, or else they want to project their own culture upon the canvas, because it serves their purposes.
I will fight until my last breath to bring the true chivalric culture always to the center of the canvas.
All good men-at-arms are brothers in the pursuit of the Noble Life, or else they should be.
But I am screwing up in important departments, because of a temporary lack of funds (everything I can find is going to the wedding and to the honeymoon)...Gott think long-term. Gotta get to the next level of ultra spiffiness....
And I had to pay ransom to my own GREAT-grandknight this last weekend! I gave him a book of medieval illuminations.

Isn't money spent on the wedding and honeymoon paying attention to the long term? Careful Vitus, your lady may find this missive and take offense.

Jean Paul

someone keeps bumping the other one so I have to keep it close to it

Nah, she let's me keep whatever dough I can find through means other than my "job'. She rules.

Vitus:

Do you not have a trestle-table or benches? A good slat-bed? If not, perhaps I can whip up a set of them for you. Fauldestools are a bit beyond my ken, but what I've offered is (at very least) a start.

Respectfully,