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

Barony of Gyldenholt

Event Staff: Gyldenholt Anniversary 2000: pennant coordinator

Barony of Dun Or

Guild Leader: Bardic Circle 2001 - 2010
Court: Iain and Theresia 2000 - 2002
Officer: Lysts - approximately 2001-2003
Event Staff: Merchants Coordinator - Darkwell War 2002
Event Staff: t-shirt Coordinator - Darkwell War 2002 and 2003
Event Steward: Dun Or Yule 2002
Event Co-Steward / Mentor: Darkwell War 2003
Officer: Arts and Sciences - approximately 2003-2006
Court: Head of Court (& Guard?) Colyn and Muiriath 2005 - 2007
Officer: Web-wright - approximately 2006-2009
Event Co-Steward / Mentor: Dun Or Yule 2024
Officer: Deputy Seneschal - 2025 to present

Kingdom Caid

Event Co-Steward / Mentor: Crown Tourney - Spring 2006
Guard: Direk III and Levana
Guard: Brand and Nuala
Guard: Sven V and Iseabail

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

Caid - Assistant teacher for Guillaume de Saint Michel and Christiana de Mandeville. Beginning Pewter Casting at GWW approximately 2002
Barony of Dun Or - Assistant teacher for Gerhardt von Helmbright. Leather mask making. Guild of the Nine Fingers/A&S class. Approximately 2004
Caid - Burnout: for SCA Volunteers - Collegium Caidis June 2025

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.