I'm so confused...

[thanate]

Question for the SCA-types (Jillian and I were wondering this, after the spate of awards at 12th night)...

We know there are some SCA awards you get to find out about ahead of time (free scholar, where it's announced ahead of time so that part of the ceremony is fighting people... but apparently not provost, as there was one made w/o warning at 12th night, a non-fighting event?... and at least the latest knight-to-be gets a month of warning-- is that normal?) But the impression we have is that for the most part one doesn't find out ahead of time, particularly for high level stuff (Aedan's pelican comes to mind.) Why is this? And how is it determined what things you know in advance and what ones you don't?

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[thanate.livejournal.com]

I was aware of the screwy academy/kingdom award thing with the scarves, but hadn't realized that was part of the distinction on presentation.

So basically you're just saying that it is that way because someone a long time ago said so, and any exceptions just are exceptions, although there's some trend towards letting people plan not to be doing something vital the day they get put on vigil, or other sensible things like that?

[belfebe.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. This has been the object of lots of discussion back and forth. It is a matter of tradition and custom. Just enough to confuse everyone ;-)