Song Zidie

(For alternate personas see Alternate Persona: Ozme van Helist and Alternate Persona: Sancia de Salazar)

Pronunciation

sewn dzz-deeyeh (all syllables have the same emphasis)

Persona

Song-niang [pronunced as “sewn”] is a Han Chinese woman trained the arts of music, dance, and poetry. She was born near the end of the Tang dynasty in Huazhou (華州, in modern day Shaanxi) on the first day of the seventh month in the fourth year of Qianning (乾寧四年七月初一, by modern reckoning the 6th of August, 897 A.D.), during the first reign of Emperor Zhaozong. Her family was in the capital city of Chang’an (長安, modern day Xi’an) when the emperor was assassinated, and in the political aftermath she lost her family and was displaced to the eastern city of Luoyang (洛阳) and later further south into the peninsula of Leizhou (雷州).

Whereabouts

Song Zidie currently resides in the Canton of Caldrithig, within Barony of Skraeling Althing

Heraldry

Banner: Argent, a polypus within an orle sable. [preferred display method: on a rectangle]

Alternate Persona: Ozme van Helist

This persona may be played during the Fall and Winter seasons.

Pronunciation

OZ-mah fan HAY-leest

Persona

Vrouwe Ozme is a lesser noblewoman of English-Flemish descent living in the late-15th century. She is the oldest of four daughters, a devout Catholic woman, and a married mother of three. Her family home is a small manor farm outside of Bruges. Sheep are raised for wool on their lands.

Heraldry

Arms: Vert, on an altar Or an alder vert. [Preferred display method: on a lozenge] (Helist is thought to be the old name for the modern town of Elst, in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is known for Roman temples, and the word “elst” is a German cognate of Dutch “els”, meaning “alder”.)
Badge: (Fieldless) A zule Or enfiling a Bourchier knot purpure.