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'''The Populace Badge of Ealdormere''', better known as the '''Wolfium''', is a [[badge]] which can be displayed by any subject of the [[Kingdom of Ealdormere]] regardless of birth, station or [[rank]].
'''The Populace Badge of Ealdormere''', also known as the '''Wolfium''', is a [[badge]] which can be displayed by any subject of the [[Kingdom of Ealdormere]] regardless of birth, station or [[rank]].


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The "Wolfium", as it is affectionately known, is a remembrance of the "spirit of the wolf" which carried the people of Ealdormere through the dark days of [[Ban on Regions|King Alen's Proscription]]. As such, it is particularly associated with the struggle to achieve [[principality]] status, and during the Proscription was used as a way of quietly declaring one's with [[regionalism|regional]] sympathies.
The "Wolfium", as it is affectionately known, is a remembrance of the "spirit of the wolf" which carried the people of Ealdormere through the dark days of [[Ban on Regions|King Alen's Proscription]]. As such, it is particularly associated with the struggle to achieve [[principality]] status, and during the Proscription was used as a way of quietly declaring one's with [[regionalism|regional]] sympathies.


Another, less formal populace badge is the simple use of three trilliums on a red field (one for each of the three original [[barony|baronies]] of Ealdormere); popularly in use as it is much easier to embroider than the wolfium.
There is a rumour, perhaps apocryphal, that certain pieces of [[Midrealm]] royal [[regalia]] made in [[Barony of Septentria|Septentria]] and [[Barony of Rising Waters|Rising Waters]] in those times are liberally (if discreetly) marked with wolves and trilliums.

There is a rumour, perhaps apocryphal, that certain pieces of [[Midrealm]] royal [[regalia]] made in [[Barony of Septentria|Septentria]], [[Barony of Rising Waters|Rising Waters]] and [[Barony of Skraeling Althing|Skraeling Althing]] in those times are liberally (if discreetly) marked with wolves and trilliums.


[[category:SCAism]][[category:device heraldry]]
[[category:SCAism]][[category:device heraldry]]

Revision as of 02:19, 16 January 2009

The Populace Badge of Ealdormere, also known as the Wolfium, is a badge which can be displayed by any subject of the Kingdom of Ealdormere regardless of birth, station or rank.

The badge is: (Fieldless) On a trillium argent barbed vert a wolf's head cabossed gules.

The "Wolfium", as it is affectionately known, is a remembrance of the "spirit of the wolf" which carried the people of Ealdormere through the dark days of King Alen's Proscription. As such, it is particularly associated with the struggle to achieve principality status, and during the Proscription was used as a way of quietly declaring one's with regional sympathies.

Another, less formal populace badge is the simple use of three trilliums on a red field (one for each of the three original baronies of Ealdormere); popularly in use as it is much easier to embroider than the wolfium.

There is a rumour, perhaps apocryphal, that certain pieces of Midrealm royal regalia made in Septentria, Rising Waters and Skraeling Althing in those times are liberally (if discreetly) marked with wolves and trilliums.