Barony of Sun Dragon History

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Information

Resides: Barony of Sun Dragon Status: Active

Heraldry

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The Barony of Sun Dragon started in 1983. Sun Dragon encompasses West Phoenix Metropolitan Area – Ahwatukee, Avondale, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Peoria, Surprise, Sun City.

The Barony of Sun Dragon started as "canton" that became a Barony due to the large size of the metropolitan Phoenix area. The name Sun Dragon originated from a Mixed Weapons War event that was near Luke Air Force Base. A Goodyear blimp was seen in the air and someone shouted out, "Look there is a dragon in the sky!" Since we are from the land of the sun, the name Sun Dragon was born.

Sun Dragon's rainbow was designed by Ioseph of Locksley who was the leading herald at the time. He was challenged to design a rainbow that would be heraldically correct. When Sun Dragon became it's own Barony, he was able to incorporate rainbow into the device.

The War Dragon badge was added during the time of Arthur and Timira as an alternate to the rainbow populace badge. Originally, it was just used for the purposes of fighting at war, but has become more popular as use of identifying as a Sun Dragon member.

Sun Dragon has traditionally been a matriarchal barony due to our first baroness at the time, was not allowed to reign with her significant other and therefore reigned alone. Since then, most baronesses have sat in the right-side throne, in the position of power and have been heralded into court first. In addition, many of the Baronesses and populace members have been heavily involved in the "Lost Tribes" which clans are also typically matriarchal.

List of Baronesses and Barons

Reign #	Baroness	Baron
13	Valdisa Álarsdóttir	Wolff Schultz
12	Jacqueline de Bretaigne	Gefroi Le Gris
11	Gwenffrey de Abergavenny	Simon Aaron of Windermere
10	Viola Carrara	Wilhelus le Casse
9	Theresa von Elp	Robert Aonghus of Loch Mohre
8	Katheline van Weye	Ryan Dollas
7	Deborah Inis Glas	Diego de Marulanda al Nadil
6	Tatiana the Midwife	Dmitri Miscovich Katzmier
5	Rowan of the Titans	Wilhelus le Casse
5	Rowan of the Titans	-
4	Tamira Ellivaine du Clonakilty	Arthur O'Flaherty
3	Gilda Nootka's Wife	Nootka Karlsefni
3	Gilda Nootka's Wife	Nootka Karlsefni
2	Cherie Ruadh MhicRath of Locksley	Ioseph of Locksley
1	Alys Carvelsdatter	-

Sister Baronies

Typically, sister baronies are centers of hospitality. So if you go to an event at that location they will ensure you are welcomed, have camping space, etc. In addition, you would consider your barony and their barony to be allies with one another. The sister baronies are determined by the Baroness and Baron. Ambassadors may even be sent to each other’s barony.

Barony Loch Sal Ann, Kingdom of Aretmesia (SLC) – 1997 – the 2 baronies exchanged flags

Barony Eskalya, Principality of Oertha, In the Kingdom of the West (Anchorage, AK) in 2012 - exchanged scrolls and flags

Shire of Windale (Kingman) in about 1993 we sponsored them, to be able to go from an incipient shire to an actual Shire, started with Arthur and Timira. Their zip codes belonged to Sun Dragon, but have since been turned over to the Kingdom as they are now their own Shire.

Awards

All award information and charters here

Trivia

Sun Dragon considers themselves the birthplace of Estrella War, because Estrella Mountain Park was in our zip codes. However, the Kingdom claimed they were kingdom lands.

Baron’s War used to be held in Tuscon and would have over 1000 participants. Each year, a different Barony was in charge of intrakingdom and each barony would fight against each other. This event stopped happening in order to facilitate opening up the schedule for people to go to Caid for Great Western War.

Flag in Space - During the reign of Teresa and Robert, one of the war banners were taken aboard the space shuttle. Deb and Diego donated the flag. The barony got an official print out from NASA that our flag was flow in zero gravity in space. Presented in court in Estrella War 2013.

Stories

A Tale of 2 Dragons by Dame Gepa of SunDragon