[Cynnabar] Archery GM in Cynnabar

[Elizabeth Calhoun]

​Unto Their Excellencies and Their Excellencies' most worthy Populace:

I want to thank everyone for their concern regarding the circumstances of
my "resignation" --  in fact the email I sent our Seneschal, Their
Excellencies, and the Foresters and our Group Marshal in Training asked
that I be considered "on leave."  I have not resigned!  I took an Oath to
the Populace at wassail 2012 and I have not asked to be released from it.
There are no dire circumstances prompting me to be considered "on leave,"
only the recognition that I need to begin the stepping-back process as GM
and letting others, namely Lady Agnoletta, our Group Marshal in Training,
come forward.

I am deeply embarrassed and sincerely apologize for any confusion.

Second, and most important, I'd like to address the nature of archery in
Cynnabar.  Forester Dillon's range has always been, by his intent, "neutral
ground" and his practices open to anyone who wishes to attend them.  His
range is not specifically "Cynnabar territory" except that the presence of
a "lawfully" warranted Baronial GM provides that *for the archers of the
Barony.*

>From Dillon's opening of his range until March 2012, Mistress Giovanna
circulated the weekly announcements of open practice at Dillon's range and
suggested that people interested in archery should go practice.  It was her
hope that a contingent of Cynnabar archers would thus form.  (This from
emails available in the Baronial email archive.)  Obviously, Mistress
Giovanna was not the Group Marshal.  She was simply making known that there
was archery practice available to the Populace.

Forester Dillon's range will continue to be open to all and any who wish to
practice, including anyone from Cynnabar.  He does not assume a Baronial
identification as does Master Nigel's range at Hawkland Moor, also
privately owned and the site of the Northwoods Baronial Archery
Championship (yearly at Smurf Shoot).  ALL are welcome, from any branch,
and we do have several out-of-towners practice on Sundays.

Third, and this is just my opinion:  many groups have Captains or Champions
of Archery which is a station unrelated to being a Group Marshal.  Group
Marshals are warranted: they inspect tackle, submit reports, and so forth.
(At Pennsic it was assumed that Aeffe and I would be in charge of
inspecting all the Baronial archers' equipment, an assumption we did not
know about until it was explained to us by the then-Kingdom AG at the time,
Mistress Roewynne.)  Champions embody the militia leadership of the archery
company.  Nothing says that the two can't be one and the same!  But
obviously, a branch might be too small to have its own range or GM, but
still have a champion to gather the community of the branch's archers
around him or her.

And in all honesty, if I, as GM (and hope to be until Closing of the Range,
despite my leave-of-absence) had to identify ONE archer in Cynnabar to be
Champion, it would be Lord Eachann de Barde, who won outright the Tapping
of the Keg competition two years' running at Ale to the Victors, and whose
courage in the face of a nearly-mortal stroke only resulted in a transition
from hand-bow to cross-bow with no diminution of accuracy and achievement.

THAT is the Spirit of Chivalry embodied in an archer.

In Service Still, I remain:

Godaeth, archer



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