The recipient had registered arms, so I incorporate them into their award design wherever I can...as the award was a fighter award (and I don`t personally know him) I chose a generic chainmail-clad warrior to portray Lord Caelan, with a display of his arms in the upper corner.
Jacob of Heronter, Order of the Golden Alce
Our current Royalty, Khalek and Branwyn, are Mongol; so in keeping with their reign I did the next two awards with an Oriental theme. This image of a standard-bearer came from an 18th C Taoist painting that resides in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...the lamellar-clad soldier looks quite SCAdian to me, so with a bit of tweaking the standard-bearer now holds an Oriental banner emblazoned with the badge of the Order. As I do not kow how to write Mongolian script, the calligraphy was simp-
ly written in my Batarde-ish hand.
I also had a lot of help with the text of this scroll from Lord Po Silvertop the Rogue, who offered to compose this on VERY short notice!
Antonio de Luna, Golden Alce
So much for my foray into mixed-ethnic theme scrolls!
I could not get a Mongol translation of Lady Deianeira`s inspiring words fast enough in order to complete this scroll--so I resorted to my computer-font, Ulaan-Bataar, for help! The text is copied from the letters my old Compaq generated, letter-for-letter from Dei`s words...
Complete gibberish to someone who can actually read Mongolian, but the vertical text fit so much better with the vertical lines of the dragon--which was adapted from the Nine-Dragon Scroll, a 10th C painting (I think) from China. And the space for TRM`s vertical signatures would just look like it belonged, too. The red "seals" are just Chinese-look stamps I happened to have-
the top square one means "good luck"; the middle one depicts cranes and water; the small rosette one is just that, a small rosette!
Very fun, and a change from the usual 12th-15th C illuminations that most of us are used to!
