Morgaine FitzStephen

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Baroness Morgaine
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Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Angels Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Vert, a mullet Or within a dolmen argent, a chief embattled Or
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Baroness Morgaine FitzStephen has been active in the SCA for over 30 years. She is married to Baron Jason Thomas the Wanderer. Her Excellency is a weaver, and has generously gifted Queens with shawls woven in the colors of Caid. She is also a merchant coordinator for the Kingdom, as well as Angels and Altavia.

Persona

Morgaine FitzStephen is a Norman lady, born at Stonehenge on 24 May 1170 when her mother went into premature labour. Her alter-ego, Drusilla filia Septimus, is a Romano-Celt who appears whenever the weather gets too hot for Norman garb. Both Morgaine and Drusilla are partial to dragonflies.

Offices & Positions

Kingdom

• Chief Lady-in-Waiting, Edward and Ilaria, 05/31/1986-11/22/1986
• Avant Courier, Kingdom of Caid, 6/1987-11/1988
• Created and maintain Merchants Yahoo group [(SCA-CaidMerchants@ Yahoogroups.com]

Baronial

• Founding Exchequer, Canton of Caldera Keep, 1984-?
• Tenth Baroness of the Angels with Jason Thomas the Wanderer, 09/06/2003-09/13/2008
  • Established the Order of the Seraph for excellence in martial arts, 2003
  • Established the Order of the Cherubim to recognize the service of children in the Barony, 2003
  • Established the Order of Apollo for excellence in the arts & sciences, 2005
• Minister of Arts & Sciences, Angels, 9/12/2009-
• Chatelaine, Angels, 9/12/2013-11/13/2014
• Merchant Steward, Angels - current

Event Staff

Merchant Steward

• Angels Melee Tourney & Border Skirmish 2011
• Summer Crown Tournament 2014
• Angels Melee Tourney 2015
• Winter Festival of the Rose 2015
• Robin Hood Tourney 2015

Classes Taught

• An introduction to the spinner's world, Collegium Caidis Spring 2003
• Tartan and the Triangular Loom, Collegium Caidis Spring 2003
• Weaving on a Triangular Loom
• Merchant 101, Collegium Caidis Fall 2008

Projects & Publications

• Nominee, William Blackfox Award, A.S. 43, Best Poetry or Short Fiction, for "Requiem for Lady Sariah", published in The Seraph.
• Designed tartans for Caid, Altavia, Angels, Starkhafn, as well as the West and several other Kingdoms and Baronies; wove handspun shawls for the rulers of same

Memories

• Who Was Your "First Crown"? memory