*Bio Guidelines:  Your personal biography should contain no more than 1000 words. It will inform the reader  about the time period and area where your persona evolved, and include a small backstory from that era of  adventure, and social history.  Finish (in point form) with the sub-categories of "Interests"; “Awards”; and "Offices"  that will add your ‘real-time’ SCA skills, and duties, within the Shire of Krakafjord. Use the top two posts as  examples.  The reason for a bio page, for the purpose of this website, is to entertain and educate the reader  about the unique quality, and total immersion, that a SCA lifestyle happily promotes.  Please email a real-time  picture, and/or a depiction of your persona, with the text format bio to the webmaster.  © Shire of Krakafjord 2011 Designed by Pat Weston, Webmaster All rights reserved. Offices: Exchequer, Krakenfjord - May AS 45 (2010 - current) Awards: Award of Arms - October AS 45 (2010) Arts & Science Champion (Krakenfjord) - May AS 45 (2010) Kraken’s Oar - May AS 46 (2011) Interests: mosaics ~ stained glass ~ inkle weaving ~ leather work embroidery ~ archery / throwing weapons Lady Ismeralda di Lucio was born Isobeal Gallager in Ireland, in 1519 to an Irish gypsy father and a Scottish / English mother. Her mother died giving birth to Isobeal. Grief stricken, Faelan Gallager not wanting to stay in Ireland took his daughter and wandered throughout Europe. In 1539, when Isobeal was 20, they ended up in France. This was a terrible mistake as they were expelling and hanging gypsies because of their lifestyles. Faelan was caught and hanged. Isobeal managed to escape and fled to Trieste Italy where she changed her name to Ismeralda. Trieste was an important centre of mosaic art so Ismeralda decided to take up the art of mosaics and became well known throughout the land as one of Italy's great Mosaicist. Egidio di Lucio was looking for someone to do mosaics at his villa and heard of Ismeralda and her great mosaics. He hired her to finish the mosaic floors in his personal villa. Eventually Egidio and Ismeralda fell in love and were married. Egidio was the brother to Luca di Lucio, Falco di Lucio’s Father. Ismeralda is Falco’s Aunt by marriage. Offices: Chatelaine, Krakenfjord - AS 43-46 (2009 - 2011) Seneschal , Krakenfjord - May AS 46 (2011 - current) Awards: Award of Arms - August AS 44 (2009) Rapier Champion (Krakenfjord) - May AS 45 (2010) Throwing Weapons Champion (Krakenfjord) - May AS 45 (2010) Interests: Rapier Fighting ~ weaving  painting ~ leather work Lady Falco di Lucio was born in 1516, in Como Italy, to Luca and Georgia di Lucio.  In 1524, Georgia went on trial with hundreds of others pointlessly defending herself against the accusations of witchcraft. Devastated by the execution of his wife and fearing for his only daughter, Luca disguised his child as a boy and fled from Como. Travelling around various places in Italy, never staying for too long, Luca sought out various masters to teach Falco to defend herself with the use of a rapier. Constantly fleeing from her true identity Falco eventually met up with the mercenary unit Clan MacRaith Upon revealing her true identity, Falco swore an oath to defend and protect her new family in return for their fellowship, and a home. Many people in the SCA create what we call a persona.  This is the person we would have been if we had lived between 600 AD and 1600 AD.  We create information and personal details including a time; place; clothing style; social class; manners; language; and a background story.  For some people their *persona is simply a name and a rough time period, while others can tell you their persona's entire life story.  For most people, though, their persona falls somewhere in the middle.