The climate and culture of the SCA is a microcosmic reflection what is going on in the mundane world. It is where we go to both, escape from, and to process what is happening on the outside. It is a sublime pendulum that arcs back and forth between the complicated, and the simple. It is what we make it. You cannot pontificate at it to create change. You must lead change-- be change. Be chivalrous. Be charitable. Be industrious. Have a good time. Everyone will see what you are doing, and join in.  -- Syr Gerwyn y' Teigr, Baron Aarquelle