====== 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 (Foreign Grants of Rank: Middle Kingdom) * **[[awards:Award of the Scarlet Banner]]** - October 31st, 2009 * **[[middlewiki>Purple_Fret|Award of the Purple Fret]]** - April 24th, 1993 (Foreign Awards of Rank: Middle Kingdom) * **[[middlewiki>Willow|Order of the Willow]]** - September 30th, 1995-09-30 (Foreign Awards of Rank: Middle Kingdom) * **[[middlewiki>Purple_Fret|Award of the Purple Fret]]** - October 14th, 2000 (Foreign Awards of Rank: Middle Kingdom) * **[[http://middlewiki.midrealm.org/index.php/Dragon%27s_Barb|Order of the Dragon's Barb]]** - August 15th, 2002 (Foreign Awards of Rank: 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 (Closed Principality Honours, 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]]. [{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_augmentation.png?200|Arms: //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.//}}] [{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_2.png?200|Badge: //(Fieldless) A comet fesswise gules bearded Or.//}}] [{{ media:heraldry:personal_heraldry:nika_dmitrieva_doch_zvezdina_badge.png?200|Badge: //Counter-ermine, on a pall Or three crescents gules (former device)//}}] [{{ 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.//}}] /* PLEASE DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS POINT - TAGS FOR AUTO-GENERATED LISTS */ {{tag>people:personas_by_century:13th_century people:personas_by_culture:norman people:personas_by_culture:russian people:order_of_the_laurel people:order_of_the_pelican people:people_by_location:eoforwic people:people_by_location:septentria people:people_by_location:rising_waters history:lineages:line_of_nicolaa_l history:lineages:line_of_nicolaa_p people:people_by_office:archery_marshal people:people_by_office:herald people:people_by_interest:target_archery people:people_by_interest:calligraphy people:people_by_interest:costuming people:people_by_interest:autocratting people:people_by_interest:illumination people:people_by_interest:research people:people_by_interest:court_heraldry people:people_by_interest:needlework people:people_by_interest:silk_banner_painting people:people_by_household:house_herissony people:barons_baronesses}}