I live in Meridies.
Before that I lived in Ansteorra.
Before that: Meridies, Ansteorra, Meridies,
Drachenwald (when it was part of the East), and Meridies.
Before that, Novgorod.
I was born in Novgorod, the Northern principality of what is
now (but was not then) Russia. At some point--and the why's and specifics
are unnecessary--I left the land of my birth and wound up here in Meridies ((the
first time…, in 1982, when I started in the SCA)). I have not, since that
time, taken up residence in Novgorod, or any other part of the Rus lands.
I do not hold lands there, and trouble myself very little with that land's
goings on, except for the bits I pick up from others who once lived there, whom
I encounter here in the Laurel Kingdoms.
I am not sure how I could manage to live all the way back
there, anyway, (like I could ever convince my lady wife to tolerate that
much snow!) and still make it to tournaments and courts and revels here in
Meridies. It takes many weeks to accomplish even part of the trip, if I
even knew how to get back.
And how would I explain one sovereign to the other?
Rus traditions are certainly more relaxed than those in Western Europe. I
could leave service to one Prince or magnate, shift allegiance to another, and
still keep the land I was given by the first. The ways of the Laurel
Kingdoms are even more relaxed. Nonetheless, I cannot bring myself
to pledge my service and fealty to a Meridian King while at the same time
espousing similar devotion to a French or English King or claiming to hold
lands from a Turkish Emir or a Grand Prince in Tver'.
No, that doesn’t make sense for (to) me.., temporally or
feudally or any-way-ally.
No, I live here in Meridies, full time, with my family and
all the retainers, troops, and tenants befitting my station, in my fortified chalet
overlooking Altantia’s southern border vale.
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