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 Magnifico Benedikt von Luzern Photographer: Aurora Faw | ||||
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 Quarterly gules and Or, in bend three cats' faces, a bordure engrailed counterchanged. |
SCA origin story
Benedikt von Luzern was introduced to the SCA by a friend in The Barony of Tir Ysgithr in 1989. He became squired in the mid 90's but was released to follow his lady to the Kingdom of An Tir. Residing in An Tir he sort of fell out of the society with the exception of the occasional armored combat practice and the annual pilgrimage to Estrella War. He then traveled to the Kingdom of Ansteorra for another year. In 2017 the two returned to Atenveldt. He now revels in a strange juxtaposition of building new relationships through the archery community yet reuniting with people from decades ago. In a way Benedikt is reinventing himself. His dreams are that this new energy will spill over onto the rest of Haus Tagesterne.
Persona
Benedikt is a 14th century stone mason out of Luzern, a canton of what is now known as Switzerland. It was a time when the Swiss cantons were first uniting against the Hapsburg rule. Benedikt's persona was born and ages thru time exactly 600 years before his mundane counterpart of today. At events he attempts to maintain a very 14th century appearance and encampment.
Interests & activities
Archery
Benedikt is the current Kingdom Royal Archer, an archery marshal and was the archery captain for the Barony of Twin Moons from September 2021 thru September 2023. He has achieved the archery rank of Bowmaster in open handbow, Yeoman in Period hand bow, and Yeoman in Period Crossbow. He is honored to be accepted as a Companion of the Order of the Black Pheon, a Commander of the Order of the Azure Archers and, mundanely, a certified Level 1 Instructor for USA Archery. He started his SCA archery career with a period longbow which he used for several years. He is somewhat experienced in crossbow but now primarily uses a modern longbow and a modern recurve. He has done minor bow repairs and builds all his own arm bracer's, quivers, arrows.
Has taught/can teach arrow building.
Armored Combat
One of the reason's Benedikt was drawn into the SCA was shinai. Remember SCA shinai back in the early 90's. No? Well you're not the only one. "Brah, shinai was like soooooooooo 90's." From there he transitioned into fencing and from there into full hardsuit. In the late 90's Benedikt actually started the road to knighthood by taking a red belt to Thegn Sir Brendan mac Artuir (then Sir Brendan). A couple years and a AoA later Sir Brendan released Benedict as a squire when he followed his lady love to An Tir. From that point on Benedict only fought occasionally and at Estrella Wars but has recently picked up combat archery.
Arts & Sciences
Benedikt enjoys leatherworking & tooling, metalwork, some light woodwork and silk banner dying.
See more of Benedikt's SCA leatherwork here.
Mead Making
In Atenveldt Brewer's guild competitions Benedikt has achieved-
Heraldry
While no expert Benedikt is knowledgeable and happy to discuss heraldry. He currently has arms, and three badges passed (one especially for his household).
Period Games
"Decades ago I attended a household period game night and I was fascinated." Benedikt enjoys playing backgammon, tabula, nine man's morris, mancala, boccie, chess & Senet and is interested in obtaining & playing the Royal Game of Ur, and Tafl.
Service
As you may have read above, Benedikt loves archery. To practice it, to teach it to schedule wars with it. He somehow became the KRA. Apparently he loved doing all this so much the Order of the Pelican and the Crowns saw it fit to induct him as a Pelican at Polaris in August of 2024.
Awards - Order of Precedence
Kingdom -
Baronial -
Benedikt's Order of Precedence
Household
Benedikt is the current head of Haus Tagesterne as of April 23rd, 2022 in the common era
