Really, there have been "Tuchux" at Pennsic for a 10 maybe 15 years
now. They're a tribe described in John Norman's Gor series.
On 6/9/2010 1:24 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Jun 9, 2010, at 6:52 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
Well, this was a Robin Hood themed fair, (and the local fair was none to
accurate on footwear.
Footwear is hard, as are glasses. Also things vary a lot from faire to faire. The direct
descendants of the original Ren Faire tend to be a lot stricter on cast costumes than the
"small faires".
The general time period portrayed would then be Medieval, the King was Richard
the Lionheart (~1200 AD), though there was plenty of anachronism to go
around.with actors in Late Medieval early renasance armor and a company of
Renascence Landsknechts, parading about. All in all about as confused about
era as you'd expect an SCA group to be. You don't have to explain the SCA to
me, I used to hang out with people who were members, I even managed to talk
other people into joining, never did myself. Too silly especially when you
consider that it was allowable to create a character from the Planet Gor, you
might as well allow characters from thePolysotechnic leage\ or the Terran
Empire.
I don't know which SCA you hung out with, but the one I was a member of didn't
allow personas from anything but medieval Europe, on Earth. Sure there were
people who fudged and pretended that they had returned from Asia with Marco
Polo and some such. Occasionally, folks would slip under the radar,
especially as newbies.
Then again, I've hung out at Marion Zimmer Bradley's (where the first event was) and
people may be a bit more of sticklers "in the land where time began". :)
But that's all just pedantic quibbling. The point of Ren Faire's, and the SCA
is far more about recreation, than re-creation.
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