Cera ingen Taidc

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Cera ingen Taidc
Information
Preferred title: Honorable Noble Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Dun Or Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Argent, in pale three horses passant azure. Registered : Nov-2001 Artist : Thomasine Lestrange
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Intro

Cera started in Gyldenholt in 1997 and moved to Dun Or in 2000. Is a member of the fighting unit Cross and Dragon. Interests include Rapier, Pewtering, and storytelling.

Persona

800s era Irish

Offices & Positions

• Lady in Waiting - Iain and Theresia 2000 - 2002
• Lady in Waiting - Colyn and Muiriath 2005 - 2007
• Lysts Officer for Dun Or
• Arts and Sciences Officer for Dun Or
• Web-wright for Dun Or
• Deputy Seneschal for Dun Or - 2025 to present

Activities

Barony of Gyldenholt

• Graduated newcomers 1998
• Gyldenholt guilds 1997-2000: leather workers, pewter casting, costumers, bardic
• Volunteered at Wayzgoose - University California Irvine - 1998-1999.
• Volunteered at Santa Anita Race Track demo - approximately 1998-2000.
• Volunteered at Orange County Fairgrounds demo - approximately 2000
• Event Set-Up, Take Down, and General Support (Numerous Events)
• Gyldenholt War Mart. Stacked firewood / set up - GWW 2000

Barony of Dun Or.

• Event Set-Up, Take Down, and General Support (Numerous Events, demos, Fun Or)
• Dun Or Guilds: Guild of the Nine Fingers/Tinker Guild, bardic, foresters guild
• Kitchen Assistant: various (anniversaries and Darkwells between 2001-2005)
• Volunteered at demonstrations: Poppy Festival (approximately 2003-2006), renaissance festival in Quartz Hill (approximately 2005)
• Site tokens: two designs (Celtic and Roman) - Darkwell War 2003 (design and mold only - bulk casting was delegated)
• T-shirt design: Darkwell War 2003 (by default - no volunteer)
• Designed baronial award scrolls - 2005
• Wrote text and designed scroll for Baroness Favor - 2005
• Baronial Award Medallions - assisted Master Rufus MacDaniel (art and hand painting the enamel onto the rounds) - enamel cloisonné on acid etched copper rounds and electroplated - 2005-2007 or so (I lost track)
• Volunteered at demonstrations: Stallion Springs Renaissance Festival - 2024
• Various projects: assisted painting walls for baronial encampment - 2024-present

Kingdom Caid

• Event setup up. GWW 2000. Drove stakes and installed road signs (wooden signs that Guillaume de Saint Michel made).
• Rapier marshal - approximately 2001 to 2012 (plus field heraldry)
• Rapier marshal in training - 2024 to present
• Various projects: assisted Baroness Doria Tecla with painting Canterbury Tales character wall hangings for Festival of the Rose - 2002
• Various projects: assisted Count Gerhart von Atenberg - Cast pewter site tokens he designed - approximately 2003
• Entered 5 submissions - Pentathalon 2005
• Site Tokens - Festival of the Rose - approximately Summer 2006
• Kitchen assistant - coronation June 2006, plus various (I lost count when and where)
• Fealty Token - Edric IV and Faizah
• Fealty token - Edric V and Faizah II
• Volunteered - Ridgecon 2024 (rapier) and 2025 (rapier and pewter casting static display)
• Feast Server/dish washer - coronation January 2025
• Volunteered - Set up and ran Dun Or game booth at St Jude’s Tournament - June 2025

Classes Taught

• Burnout: for SCA Volunteers - Summer 2025
• Assistant to Guillame and Christiana de Mandeville. Beginning Pewter Casting at GWW
• Assistant to Gerhardt von Helmbright. Leather mask making. Barony of Dun Or.

Projects & Publications

Darkwell War

Darkwell 15 site tokens based on Celtic and Roman artifacts

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Pelican Medallion

Pelican Medallion for Rufus MacDaniel. Original cast in pewter. Based on earliest version of pelican from an illuminated manuscript. Final cast in bronze.

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Festival of the Rose

Festival of the Rose site Tokens

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Fealty Tokens

• Fealty Token of Edric IV and Faizah

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• Fealty token of Edric V and Faizah II, A two-sided token pictured is a Peacock, the side not shown was Edric's winged serpent.

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Other Projects

• A project for Faizeh cast in pewter.

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• Pictured is an unfinished bronze casting of a project for Mealla Caimbeul

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• Pentathlon 2005

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Guilds and Associations

• Guild Leader for Dun Or Bardic Circle 2001 - 2010
• Protege to Ragnailt Inghean Mhaoil Sheachlainn - September 2025 - to Present

Competitions

• Dun Or Arts and Science Champion - 2003
• Gyldenholt Arts and Sciences Champion - 2004

Photos

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  Cross Swords for Cross and Dragon
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