I was honored to have Katherine and Ysemay reach out to me and ask me to do the calligraphy for a backlog they were working on. One of their friends had earned a Silver Wheel, but because life happens the scroll ended up in backlogs.
Ysemay did a wonderful job with the words, I only wish I could have heard them read aloud in court.
Words:
SEGMENT 1: HOW MARGARETTE la GANTIÈRE HATH DONE ALL AND IN A SHORT TIME BECOME INVALUABLE TO THE EAST KINGDOM AND HER BARONY OF BHAKAIL; AND HOW SHE HAS BECOME AS A WHEEL THAT SETS GOOD DEEDS IN MOTION. This gentle giveth to the Kingdom all that is asketh without grudging of conscience. And if this Margarette wist that others have need of knowledge, hope, and charity she gifteth these in abundance. Of this let there be no doubt, such that her nature be pure service, and such service could not be attained for all the gold in the world. So today at River War Anno Societatis LVIII, in the Barony of Iron Bog, do we Caoilfhionn, Ardrígain & Brennan, Ardrí, Autokrator kai Autokratera Tis Anatolis induct Margarette la Gantiere into Our Order of the Silver Wheel and further grant her the exclusive right to bear these Arms Argent, a winged domestic cat rampant reguardant and on a chief dovetailed sable three plates.
The reference souce used French, Batârd, unfortunately that was a script I wasn’t practiced in so we decided to go with Littera Bastarda, which is one I was MUCH more familiar with.
