East Kingdom, Crown List is out!

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It's here and has consorts

This is not in specific Order of Precedence yet.

The dukes, counts, etc., are all group together, but they are not ordered.

I will undoebtedly have some thoughts later.

 

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Well, we are used to doing it that way. More important, though, is that people have done things because they THINK they will work, and then again and again because, for one reason or another, it did.

Many years ago, I was asked to check memberships before Crown Tournament. That rule is based upon a person, who effed up their membership. So we want to get the names far enough in advance to not only CHECK memberships, but fix'em. We can do that.

And an older and experienced Kingdom Seneschal of the East has told me, in no uncertain terms, that some folks would fight for other folks, not even knowing their modern name. They pointed out that the muddle that comes from reigns where the Crowns fight within their own couple, was awful. The paper process and the advance notice gives BOTH of them some involuntary insight into how the other works, and processes information, and gives them a trial run to make sure that between the two of them SOMEONE gets the paperwork in.

I doubt like hell that was the reason any of this was introduced. Someone probably said "a month: that makes my life easy". But I also believe (and having been within the process, actually SEEN) that even this minor impediment and process has refreshed the minds of those that would compete.

Why do we do it? Because, it's a combination of brains and happenstance, that has not just worked, but worked well enough to repeat.