Announcements

Hello Calontir,

I am writing to inform the populace that this week will be my last week as Calontir Webminister. This is my own decision and is not related to anything going on within the Kingdom. My personal life has simply taken over all of my time lately and I have not been able to keep up with my duties.

My Emergency Deputy and predecessor Gawin will be taking back over the office in the immediate term. My term was almost up and I honestly should have already been looking for a successor. Hopefully a new Webminister can be found relatively easily so that Gawin can keep focusing on the awesome work he’s doing on CALON!

That leads me to an important acknowledgement. While I did do a good bit of the day to day minutia of user management, policy decisions, answering questions, and so on I think it is important to note that it was Gawin and Ffelix who continued pushing forward the CALON features and enhancements with very little help from me. If nothing else I hope my tenure as webminister gave them some breathing room to be able to focus on making the web experience better for everyone in the kingdom! In addition, all of the many deputies that work for the Webminister (Kingdom and Local both) are absolutely irreplaceable and I am incredibly thankful for all the work they do. There is absolutely no way a single person, or three people, could keep up!

If anyone needs anything from me specifically, please reach out over personal communications as I will be handing over the webminister email in the next couple days.

Thank you,
Líknvé in spaka
Calontir Webminister

Greetings, noble participants and spectators! During the Calontir Crown Tournament, we will be designating two special viewing areas next to the listfield for consorts and ONE additional support person. These will be marked with taped-out boxes on the ground, allowing only two individuals per box while the consort’s fighter is in combat.

Spectators bringing your own chairs and set up: Please be aware that seating directly behind these boxes may obstruct your view of the action.

After each bout, we kindly ask that the consort and their supporter step out of the box and move aside to maintain clear visibility for all attendees. This will ensure everyone can enjoy the tournament while supporting their champions. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. May the day be full of Chivalry and Honor!

In service,

Your Calontir Crown Tournament Marshals

Greetings from your Lilies War “Drums of War” Staff”,

War is coming quickly upon us. Two short months and we will be set up, attending our favorite war activities, seeing old friends, and meeting new ones! We are all very excited with how the war is coming together thus far.

Submit your activities!

The schedules are beginning to be filled in with the official events for this Lilies War; however, it is the activities that you the populace bring to the war that make it special. The cutoff date for activities to be included in the Site Book is 1st May. Would you like to teach a class? Have a tournament or shoot that you’ve always wanted to see happen? Does your group want to sponsor and run a revel or social? All of these things and so many more can be found on the Lilies War website! (https://www.lilieswar.org/).

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Evening social gatherings

This year we will be adding a location that we are affectionately calling “The Falcon’s Revel“. It will be located down on the point, (where we usually gather to watch the fireworks and the Barony of Three Rivers (B3R) party is held). This is a call back to Lilies of old, where many of the official evening social gatherings were held down at the bonfire. If you or your group are interested in hosting a revel or evening social that will be an official part of the war, this, or the Permanent Shelter, is where we will strongly encourage they be scheduled.  All groups hosting at this location will have access in the early morning of your revel/social, and you can drive your vehicle down the road to the point to drop off anything you need to run your activity.

Advertising will be done for you as not only will your activity be on the official schedule on the website and in the site book, but it will also be announced during morning announcements.

Now, we hear you. Does this mean that you have to use these locations in order to host official revels/gatherings? Absolutely not! Does that mean you can’t hold a more private gathering in your own camp? Of course not. Does this mean that if you and your friends want to set up a round of Irish Road Bowling that you can’t? Never! It only means that the official revels and socials will have a place where everyone knows that they are invited and welcome. Not to mention those that are not night owls will know where not to camp!

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Finally, we want you to know that we need all of you to make this war an event that everyone will remember for the rest of the current middle ages. This is our official request to each and every single person, whether it be a peer or a newcomer, we want you all. We need all of your help. We want all of your amazing ideas. Have a question, please contact us. We will work to find a solution to any concerns you may have and we appreciate all of your input. 

We are so excited to be hosting this year’s war. We hope all of you will come join us. Pack up your camping gear, your garb, and bring a drum and travel back with us to the days of friends, family, chivalry, and so much more!

Activities Submission Area: https://www.lilieswar.org/activities/

Volunteer Area:https://www.lilieswar.org/lilies-war/volunteers/

For more information about Lilies War, head to the website: https://www.lilieswar.org/

Lilies War XXXVII – June 6th to June 15th, 2025

Event Stewards – His Lordship Ottar Surtrson & The Honorable Lord Skallagrímr Bárðarson

Greetings Calontir,

This is a reminder that we will hold the first of our training sessions for the new event bid system tonight at 6pm.

I will post the link on this announcement a few minutes before we start.

Our second session will be tomorrow night at 6pm.

Link to Monday night’s session: https://meet.google.com/zdb-bshv-nvx

Hope to see you there!

The February Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. The results for Calontir may be found at the following links:

https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2025/02/25-02lar.html#Calontir_acceptances10
https://heraldry.sca.org/loar/2025/02/25-02lar.html#Calontir_returns10

Greetings Everyone – I am pleased to announce that pre-registration is now OPEN for Lilies War 2025! Follow this link to pre-register now.

For more information about Lilies War, head to the website: https://www.lilieswar.org/

Lilies War XXXVII – June 6th to June 15th, 2025

Event Stewards – His Lordship Ottar Surtrson & The Honorable Lord Skallagrímr Bárðarson

Greetings Calontir,

It is with great pleasure that we can announce the launch of our new kingdom event bid system as part of CALON. This system provides a workflow for groups to submit events to the Reeve, to provide informational updates to those events, and for that information to populate the kingdom event calendar.

It is our hope that this system will greatly improve our kingdom’s digital communications about events by providing a single, authoritative source for information in a structured and accessible way.

The tools that we have created in CALON will put Group Seneschals and Event Stewards in control of their events by allowing them to directly and continuously update the Kingdom website.

A more in-depth explanation of how to use this system can be found here.

Briefly:

1. This system provides a toolset for group Seneschals and Event Stewards to submit and update information about their event to the Kingdom Reeve and Website. This system replaces the previous Google Form and Google Calendar and can be used for both regular events and Royal Events.
2. The Calendar will link to an “Event Webpage” for every event based on the information submitted using this form. These pages will include information about the event, the site, the schedule, and the staff in a structured way that will make it easier for people to find the information that they are looking for.
3. Seneschals can generate the required Event Bid signature form for submitting Royal Events based on the information entered on the web form. Event Sites are stored in the system and can be re-used, which should make data entry far easier when re-using sites for Royal Events.

We would encourage group Seneschals – especially those who have events occuring over the next few months – to login to CALON and update their event information. We will be working on tidying up some of information that wasn’t fully transferred over the next few days.

Please contact [email protected] if you need help using this system or to report any bugs that you find.

We will hold 2 virtual training sessions next week – One on Monday April 7 at 6pm and another on Tuesday April 8 at 6pm. The links for these will be published a few minutes before they start.

This project is the culmination of nearly 2 years of work by the CALON development team and the Kingdom Reeve. We’d also like to acknowledge Jon Chesey for his work compiling a historic event calendar from paper copies of the Mews. As new events are submitted through CALON, they will be added to this list.

Join us on Saturday, April 12th, 2025, at 9:30 AM, for an exhilarating experience as we livestream the Calontir Crown Tournament! In an effort to continue inclusion within Calontir and out, you can tune in to our livestream on YouTube to witness the unfolding drama, breathtaking displays of prowess, and the glory of chivalry on full display.

We are currently working on improving the livestream experience by adding a voice herald to relay who is fighting, etc. We will send more updates on this soon!

HOW TO WATCH:

* Go to https://youtube.com/@kingdomofcalontir/ and select the “Live” option from the menu.

** Select the livestream that you wish to view from the current list.

*** This will give you direct access to any live streams going, but we will not be setting up a scheduled event, as it created issues the last time we attempted to use it. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to witness history in the making!

#CalontirCrownTournament #Livestream #MedievalMayhem

Greetings from your Spring Crown Tournament Event Steward!!!

I am please to announce that Pre-registration for Spring 2025 Crown Tournament on April 12th 2025 is now live!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmSmJNGr-73Dvt6253Q6uTct9dmuAYLRWB4C202So9Mj_KkA/viewform?usp=sharing

Pre-Registration will close on Tuesday, April 8th  at 8 pm.
All invoices must be PAID by Wednesday, April 9th at 8 pm.