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====== Nika Dmitrieva doch' Zvezdina ======
Magistra Nika Dmitrieva doch' Zvezdina lives in Novgorod, the daughter of a boyar family engaged in trade, in the year 1242. As she is literate, she often works as a scribe, both for her family's trading concerns and for others that might need her writing skills.

===== Alternate Persona =====
Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester is a 13th-century Anglo-Norman woman, born in Leicester and currently living in London in the year 1250. Her family holds two manors from the Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort.  She is a patroness of the Dominican Order and has given alms to fund the copying of manuscripts. Her uncle Henry is a famous compiler of English common law. She also occasionally may be seen in the clothing of her great-grandmother, a 12th century Anglo-Norman woman of the same name.

===== Whereabouts ====
Nika currently lives in Stoney Creek, ON.  She plays with three Baronies ([[branches:barony:Septentria]], [[branches:barony:Ben Dunfirth]],  [[branches:barony:rising_Waters|Rising Waters]]) and regularly attend meetings in [[branches:canton:Eoforwic]], where she works.

===== Heraldry =====
  * **Device:**  Per pale gules and Or, five mullets two, two, and one counterchanged within a bordure sable, for augmentation on an inescutcheon overall sable, a pen bendwise sinister argent enfiling a coronet bendwise sinister Or.
  * **Personal Badge:** (Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules bearded Or.
  * **Personal Badge:** Counter-ermine, on a pall Or three crescents gules (former device)
  * **Household Badge:** Per pale Or and gules, a domestic cat herissony counterchanged and a bordure sable.
  * **Laurel Badge:** (Fieldless) A mullet of eight points per fess argent and gules distilling a goutte de sang.
  * **Pelican Badge:** (Fieldless) On a mullet of six points azure four musical notes in saltire stems outward Or. 
  * **Badge of the Ealdormere Scholar's Guild:** Argent, a pale azure, overall a dog salient sable maintaining in its mouth a torch gules.
  * **Badge:** (Fieldless) A mullet of four points gules, overall a manul statant guardant Or.

===== Offices and Appointments =====
==== Current Offices ====
  * **Rouge Estoile Herald Extraordinary** - Ealdormere [[groups:guilds_and_orders:the_college_of_heralds|College of Heralds]]
  * {{activities:service:offices:marshal-archery-symbol.png?30|}} **[[activities:martial:target_archery|Archery]] [[activities:service:offices:Marshal]]** - Barony of [[branches:barony:Rising Waters]]

==== Past Offices ====
  * {{activities:service:offices:herald-symbol.jpg?30|}} **[[activities:service:offices:trillium_herald|Trillium Herald]] Emerita** - Ealdormere [[groups:guilds_and_orders:the_college_of_heralds|College of Heralds]]
  * {{activities:service:offices:chronicler-symbol.png?30|}} **[[activities:service:offices:chronicler|Kingdom Chronicler]]** - Kingdom of Ealdormere
  * {{activities:service:offices:chronicler-symbol.png?30|}} **[[activities:service:offices:chronicler|Principality Chronicler]]** - Principality of Ealdormere
  * {{activities:service:offices:chronicler-symbol.png?30|}} **[[activities:service:offices:chronicler|Society Chronicler]]** - [[scaism:Society for Creative Anachronism]]
  * **Editor of Tournaments Illuminated**
  * {{activities:service:offices:chronicler-symbol.png?30|}} **[[activities:service:offices:Chronicler]]** - Barony of [[branches:barony:Septentria]]
  * {{activities:service:offices:herald-symbol.jpg?30|}} **Green Mantle [[activities:service:offices:herald|Herald]]** - Ealdormere [[groups:guilds_and_orders:the_college_of_heralds|College of Heralds]]
  * **[[activities:service:offices:Lawspeaker]]** - Kingdom of Ealdormere 

She retired as Editor of the Pennsic Independent in 2018 after 19 years of work.

===== SCA History =====
Nika joined the Canton of [[branches:canton:Eoforwic]] in 1990. She spent four years in the Shire of [[middlewike>Tirnewydd]] in the [[scaism:knowne world|Middle Kingdom]] (1999-2003) before returning to the North.

===== Interests =====
  * [[activities:martial:target_archery|Archery]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:Calligraphy]]
  * [[people:people_by_interest:Costuming]]
  * [[activities:service:autocratting|Event Management]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:Illumination]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:Needlework]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:Research]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:Silk Banner Painting]]
  * [[activities:arts_sciences:court_heraldry|Voice/Court Heraldry]]
  * Writing (ceremonies and articles)
  * Miscellaneous Shenanigans (TM)

===== Awards =====
  * **[[awards:Order of the Laurel]]** - April 20th, 1996 (Middle Kingdom)
  * **[[awards:Order of the Pelican]]** - September 27th, 2003
  * **[[awards:court_barony|Court Baroness]]** - July 4th, 2009
  * **[[awards:Order of Thorbjorn's Hammer]]** - September 24th, 2011
  * **[[http://middlewiki.midrealm.org/index.php/Dragon%27s_Heart|Order of the Dragon's Heart]]** - September 13th, 1997 (Middle Kingdom)
  * **[[awards:Award of the Scarlet Banner]]** - October 31st, 2009
  * **[[middlewiki>Purple_Fret|Award of the Purple Fret]]** - April 24th, 1993 (Middle Kingdom)
  * **[[middlewiki>Willow|Order of the Willow]]** - September 30th, 1995-09-30 (Middle Kingdom)
  * **[[middlewiki>Purple_Fret|Award of the Purple Fret]]** - October 14th, 2000 (Middle Kingdom)
  * **[[http://middlewiki.midrealm.org/index.php/Dragon%27s_Barb|Order of the Dragon's Barb]]** - August 15th, 2002 (Middle Kingdom) 
  * **[[awards:Award of Arms]]** - April 4th, 1992 (Middle Kingdom; reaffirmed May 30th, 1992)
  * **[[awards:Scroll of Honour]]** - July 1st, 1996
  * **[[awards:Scroll of Honour]]** - July 1st, 2007 (Scribe and illuminator responsible for the Scroll of Honour)
  * **[[awards:Scroll of Honour]]** - September 16th, 2009 (Scribal contributions throughout the Reign of Roak IV and Jocea II)
  * **[[awards:Scroll of Honour]]** - August 1st, 2013 (Contributions to awards during the reign)
  * **[[awards:scroll_of_honour|Scroll of Honour]]** - May 22nd, 2021 - FOOL (Rattanicus & Isabel, for service in the Bardic Army of Ealdormere)
  * **[[awards:scroll_of_honour|Scroll of Honour]]** - April 20th, 2024 (for contributions to the Kingdom Gift Basket at Gulf Wars)
  * **[[awards:Order of the Bear's Heart]]** - January 15th, 1994 
  * **[[awards:Order of the Golden Otter]]** - September 19th, 1992 (reaffirmed March 25th, 1995)
  * **[[awards:Order of the Peregrine]]** - April 15th, 1995 (Closed Principality Honours)
  * **[[awards:Order of the Bee]]** - June 20th, 1995 (Closed Principality Honours
  * **[[awards:award_of_the_silver_chalice|Silver Chalice]]** - May 13, 2017
  * **[[awards:award_of_the_warriors_of_the_chalice|Warriors of the Chalice]]** - May 12, 2018
===== Dependents =====
Nika's husband, Master Gunther Wahlstedt von Bremen, [[awards:order_of_the_pelican|OP]], shares an informal household with her. This household is known colloquially as House Herissony.  

Her current dependents are:
  * Lady Caitlin inghean Tomais ui Duibhir (combined [[scaism:protege|protégé]]/[[scaism:apprentice]])
  * Maestra Jocelyn Roget de Cranewell (combined [[scaism:protege|protégé]]/[[scaism:apprentice]])
  * Baroness Gema Krasil'nikova ([[scaism:protege|protégé]], shared with Master Gunther)
  * Baron Dmitri Kievskoi ([[scaism:protege|protégé]], shared with Master Gunther)
  * Lady Mabel Juniper (combined [[scaism:protege|protégé]]/[[scaism:apprentice]])

Foster apprentice: Lady Fursto de Robyne

Out of Kingdom dependents: 
  * Lady Gwerydd verch Llewellyn (combined [[scaism:protege|protégé]]/[[scaism:apprentice]])
  * Lord Michael the Longsuffering ([[scaism:apprentice]])

Inactive dependents:
  * THL Geoffrey Guiscard ([[scaism:apprentice]])
  * Lord Eoin O'Beirne ([[scaism:apprentice]], shared with Countess Genevieve)
  * Lady Sigridr Rognvaldsdottir ([[scaism:apprentice]])
  * Lady Naja Kesali Orekh ([[scaism:protege|protégé]])
  * THL Ailis de la Marche ([[scaism:apprentice]])
  * THL Elanna of Marchmount ([[scaism:protege|protégé]])
  * THL Hans Thorvaldsson ([[scaism:protege|protégé]])

Former dependents, now Laurels:
  * Mistress Marian of Heatherdale
  * Master Alan Fairfax
  * Maistres Medb ingen Dungaile
  * Meister [[people:Albrecht Stampfer]]
  * Magistra [[people:Sciath ingen Chaennaig]] - also now a Pelican
  * Master Tadc meic Briain
  * Mistress Helena Katerina de Roero
 

===== Contact Information =====
Nika can be contacted by [[mailto:herissonycat@gmail.com|email]].
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[{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge_3.png?200|Household Badge : //Per pale Or and gules, a domestic cat herissony counterchanged and a bordure sable.//}}]
[{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge_4.png?200|Laurel Badge: //(Fieldless) A mullet of eight points per fess argent and gules distilling a goutte de sang.//}}]
[{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge_6.png?200|Pelican Badge: //On a mullet of six points azure four musical notes in saltire stems outward Or. //}}]
[{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge_7.png?200|Badge: //(Fieldless) A mullet of four points gules, overall a manul statant guardant Or.//}}]
[{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge_5.png?200|Badge of the Ealdormere Scholar's Guild: //Argent, a pale azure, overall a dog salient sable maintaining in its mouth a torch gules.//}}]
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