Dorcas Whitecap

Dorcas Whitecap with her court baronage, a gold and garnet diadem inspired by the Staffordshire hoard, and wearing a white linen dress with green linen overdress.

New Device: Per pale and per chevron gules and Or

Old Device: Vert, a dolphin haurient contourny and on a chief wavy argent, three crescents vert

Badge: Argent, in saltire a wooden needle piercing the field and a sprig of rosemary proper.

Badge: (Fieldless) A barnacle goose tree Or, leaved and fructed within and conjoined to an annulet gules.

Persona:

• Dorcas is a 7th century Anglo-Saxon from the kingdom of Mercia. The name Dorcas Whitecap is a late-period English name. See, your name doesn't have to match your persona.
• In the SCA, I am a bard and a herald. I also embroider and knit.
• Link to Calontir Armorial - http://armorial.calontir.org/Pages/DorWhi.htm

History in the SCA:

• Timeline:
• I first encountered the SCA in 1984, while living in Forgotten Sea, but it didn't "stick". I moved to Carlsby, and attended a few meetings, and tried fighting, but armor was expensive & I never developed a passion for it. In 1990 I moved to Crescent Moon, and discovered a very enthusiastic and friendly group, and that's the time I consider as my start in the Society.
• Significant events since then:
  • Original Champion of the Bardic College, that is, holder of the Big Damn Stick, in 1999.
  • I wrote "The Compact Between Horse and Man", commonly called "the horsey song", in 2006.
  • I wrote "Sword From the Stone" and won the Northshield WW Smith's Challenge in 2006.
  • I was elevated to the Order of the Pelican in July 2009. I had one Protege: Johann Steinarsson. At the coronation of Donnegal and Catalina (January 2019), I begged the boon for him to be elevated to the Order of the Pelican. After some weather delays, he was elevated at Lilies War (June 2019).
  • I was granted Herald Extraordinary status by Saito Takauji, Gold Falcon, in April 2018.
  • I was made a Baroness of the Court of Logan II and Ylva in February 2023.
  • Link to Calontir OP - http://op.calontir.org/persona.php?p=858

• Groups and Affiliations:
  • Current Group: Barony of Forgotten Sea, Canton of Aston Tor
  • Previous Groups: Carlsby, Crescent Moon
  • Guilds, Households, etc: Member of the Calontir Bardic College since 1992. Dean of the College (guild head) from 2007-2009.

• Offices:
  • Local Offices: Shire Herald in Crescent Moon, Canton Herald in Aston Tor, Fountain Pursuivant in the Barony of Forgotten Sea.
  • Regional Offices: Harrier Herald, that is, Regional reporting deputy for the Central Region.
  • Kingdom Offices: Battleur Herald (tournament herald wrangler), Gold Falcon Herald (principal herald of the kingdom), White Hawk Herald (personal herald to TRMs Logan and Ylva), Eyas Herald (internal submissions).
  • SCA-wide Offices: n/a
  • Other service: tbd

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