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Don’t Take This Too Seriously
The Society for Creative Anachronism is a national non-profit educational organization dedicated to the study and re-creation of the Middle Ages. An important part of its activities is its Kingdom Colleges of Heralds, which regulate the use of names and Heraldic arms within the Society. This site has absolutely nothing* to do with the Society for Creative Anachronism’s highly esteemed, cherished, treasured, and revered College of Heralds.
Warning: This is a work of friction. Any similarity to persons or institutions, living or dead, incorporated or defunct, is purely the result of the author’s deranged imagination and unusual sense of humor. If you’re a stuffy Herald or some other serious dignitary and are likely to get your ruff all scrunched up from reading this farce, then please close this link at once and forget you ever saw it. On the other hand, if you take this Medieval costume party only as seriously as the author thinks you ought to, and if you enjoy a good laugh at the expense of people who the author thinks ought to afford it, then go right ahead and read it. Just don’t take it very seriously**.
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*much**Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
