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Games Guild of Ealdormere

2004-01-19T13:19:11Z

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The Games Guild of Ealdormere is an open organization of medieval games enthusiasts within the Society of Creative Anachronism. Our primary goal is to teach folks about medieval games, and spread our love for them.

Though the guild is based in Ealdormere, it has members and sister-guilds in various other kingdoms. The Guild's membership is open to anyone who is interested, whether they reside within the Kingdom of Ealdormere or not. The only requirements are that you register yourself with the Head of the Guild and, when at an event in a Guild function, represent us to the best of your abilities.

It was founded in November AS 36 (2001), with the guild's charter being signed by His Majesty Aaron and Her Majesty Rustique.

http://www.lozengy.net/gamesguild/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/games_guild/

Bardic College of Ealdormere

2004-01-19T13:16:05Z

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Bards.ca is the home of the Bardic College of the Kingdom of Ealdormere. We are a branch of The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a Middle Ages re-creation club. If you are new to the SCA in general, check out The Canton of Ardchreag's Newbie Handbook, available for free in PDF format. It explains the SCA very well in easy to understand language and photos.

Being very inclusive, the Bards of The Bardic College of Ealdormere are composed of musicians, poets, storytellers and wordwrights in the Ontario region of Canada. Bards.ca is a repository of our Bardic Arts, a place where all can view the works of the Bards and interact with them.

Our primary means of communication when not at SCA events is via our e-mail list, ealdorbards.

http://www.bards.ca

Guilds

2004-01-19T13:15:15Z

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In earlier medieval times, Guilds (originally Gilds) were social and religious institutions, providing mutual support to their members. In later periods, they came to be exclusive associations for mercantile groups, such as merchants, or craftsmen.

Guilds would help their members in a number of ways:
* Supporting the families of dead members
* Setting price ranges for wares (thus preventing uncompetitive pricing)

=== Guilds in the [[SCA]] ===
An SCA guild is an association for promoting a particular art or science. There are a large number of Guilds in the SCA, covering most of the major [[arts]] and [[crafts]].

Some of the Guilds are:

* [[Bardic Guild]] ([[Entertainment]])
* [[Bardic College of Ealdormere]]
* [[Brewers, Vintners and Imbibers Guild]] ([[brewing]] and [[drinking]])
* [[Worshipful Company of Broiderers]]
* [[Guild of Cooks]]
* [[Royal Guild of Defence]] ([[rapier]])
* [[Fibre Guild]]
* [[Painters and Limners Guild]]
* [[College of Scribes]] ([[calligraphy]] and [[illumination]])
* [[Guild of the Silver Rondel]] ([[dance]])
* [[Woodworkers Guild]]
* [[Games Guild of Ealdormere]]

A full list of guilds in Lochac can be found on the Lochac guild guide here: http://www.sca.org.au/lochac/groups/guilds.html

Guilds in the SCA offer ways to improve and share your knowledge in the subject area, through in-person meetings and correspondence (snail mail and email list). They also encourage their artform to be practised more - more lessons, competitions in that topic, etc.

Some guilds use a structure of names (eg novice, journeyman, master, unranked) to indicate the assessed skill of a member. This rank generally indicates a few things:
* the assessed skill of the guild-member (ie how well they make/do guild-specific things - including how well-documented the things are)
* the productivity of the guild-member (i.e. how many things they've made or how many variants of skills they've learned)
* how skilled the guild member is at *teaching* the skill to others

For example, in the Guild of Defense:
* Journeyman is an apprentice teacher and has mastered 3 different styles of period fencing
* Provost is an accepted teacher and has mastered 5 different fencing styles
* Guild-master is an exceptional teacher and has mastered 7 different styles

''see also:'' [[mailing lists]]