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== Introduction ==

Carrick MacSeáin

pronounced = ''Ca''-rick ''Mac'' Shayne

Sometimes known as Carrick of Nordenhal

== Persona ==
[[Category:14th Century Personas]]
[[Category:Brewing]] 
[[Category:Culture (Irish)]]

''Cuirtear fáilte roimh gach taistealaí''

All travelers are welcome

Carrick MacSeáin is a simple man of the earth and a brewer of grains and honey, and an innkeeper by trade.
Neither warrior nor servant, Carrick is a freeman subject of the Crown. He hails from Ail Finn,  Ireland, near Carrick-on-Shannon from whence he takes his name. 
The year is 1370

Carrick keeps a house of general hospitality for strangers. All that pass are welcome to tarry at his tables. Travelers are particularly welcome, as he supplies rooms as well as board.
Specialties include:
Meads of all types, including melomels and methoglyns 
Ales of all types, lagers occasionally 
Honey butter - spiced and non-spiced 
Feasts of fowl, beef, and boar.
Simple meals of stews and soups
Specialty breads
and Cheese!


Carrick maintains several hobbies as well as his baking and brewing.
	Fabric arts, such as creating tunics and dresses. He
	plays recorder, but only to please himself.
	

His home is his workplace. It has a tavern on the first floor and rooms to let on the second. A brewery and kitchen in the back. Carrick lives on the third floor.

== Affiliations ==
* Member of Willow's Keep household
** Chief cook and bottle washer
* Protégé to Mistress [[Eikaterine tin Elliniki]]
* East Kingdom Brewers Guild 
** Journeyman Brewer  
* The Fellowship of Woodland Outlaws
** Member

== Offices & Positions ==
*Chancellor Minor, Shire of [[Nordenhalle]] see also [https://nordenhal.eastkingdom.org Nordenhal Home Page]
* [[Silver Wheel|The Order of the Silver Wheel]] 12th of June 2021.
* Premier of the Maple Leaf Rag 🍁
* Youth Combat
** Youth Combat Marshal - Pennsic 49(MIT), Pennsic 50
** First Deputy of Youth Combat [mailto://deputy-youthcombat@eastkingdom.org Email here]
** Carrick holds a weekly Youth Combat practice in the Shire of [[Nordenhalle]]
* East Kingdom Brewers Guild
** Member 2017
** Brewer 2023
** Journeyman 2024  

== Event Staff / Volunteering ==

*East Kingdom 50 Year (EK-50) 2018 
**Youth Point Volunteer, 
**Shire Demonstration Volunteer
*Pennsic 48, August 2019
**Pennsic University, Teen University Volunteer
*Persen House Demonstration, October 2019
*East Kingdom Fall Crown Tournament, November 2020
**Chancellor Minor
**Youth Point Volunteer
**Family Point Volunteer
*War of the Roses 2022
**Youth Combat MIT
*Pennsic 49 2022
**Youth Combat MIT - obtained warrant
**Family Point Volunteer
*Daffodils 2023 
**Youth Combat Marshal in Charge
*Crown Tournament of Brennan and Caoilfhionn IV 
**Youth Combat Marshal
*Dancing Fox 2023 - Foxes al Fresco 
**Youth Combat Marshal in Charge
*War of the Roses 2023
**Youth Combat Marshal
*Pennsic 50 - 2023
**Youth Combat Marshal
**Family Point Volunteer - Background Checked Supervisor
**Chef to Auntie Arwen's staff
*Persen House Demo 2023 setup assistance
**Banner placement 
**IT Support
*East Kingdom Twelfth Night and Buckland Cross Baronial Investiture - January 13th, 2024
**Taverner
*Followers of Peter the Dressmaker
** Kitchen Staff
** Serger Station
** Setup/Cleanup crew
*Dancing Fox 2024
** Youth Combat Marshal in Charge
** "Grill Sergeant" provided chicken and beef kabobs
*War of the Roses XLIV
** Organized the Brewing Schola - 6 instructors on topics ranging from beginning brewing of ales and meads, cordials, to non-alcoholic beverages 
*Northern Region War Camp and Equestrian Championships 2024
** Youth Combat MIC
*Pennsic War LI 2024
** Youth Heavy Combat 
***Deputy MIC
***Marshal
** Runnymede Dinner (East Kingdom Coronets) volunteer
*** Brewer
*** Bartender
**Persen House Demo 2024 
***Medieval Medicine Display and discussion
***Provided Stepponi (Medieval non-alcoholic drink from Digby)
**[https://www.eastkingdom.org/event-details/?eid=4287 Hunter's Moon 2024]
***Provided a competition prize of a bottle of Pear Melomel
*** Participated in the A&S Moot with a  Display and discussion
**[https://www.eastkingdom.org/event-details/?eid=4228 Goats Inn 2024 ]
***Medieval Medicine Display and discussion
**East Kingdom Online Arts and Sciences Display, December 2024
***Medieval Medicine Display and discussion
**East Kingdom 12th Night, 2025
***Provided handcrafted Stepponi for the dayboard drinks table
**At the Sign of the Dancing Fox XXV
***Chancellor Minor
***Youth Game Room Attendant
***Provided handcrafted Stepponi for the dayboard drinks table
**West Hurley Library Medieval Day Demonstration (Local Homeschool group)
***Medieval Medicine display and discussion
== Projects & Publications ==
*Projects
**Contributed to the [https://youtu.be/SpfyQ4bPD8U video on how to modify a hockey helmet] for Youth Combat
**Game Set fabrication for the toybox. Alquerque and Nine Men's Morris. March 2021
 
**Belt Favors, May 2021
***Officer Belt loop insignia for the Shire of [[Nordenhalle]], May 2021
***Officer Belt loop insignia for the Canton of [[Northpass]], May 2024
**Belt favors for
***Indrakshi, May 2022 + embroidery machine files
***Corotica, August 2023 + embroidery machine files
***Caoilfhionn IV, May 2023 + embroidery machine files
***Emerson, March 2024 + embroidery machine files
***Fiamun, November 2024 - created and shared the embroidery machine files of her Majesty's belt favor device.
***Angelica di Nova Lipa, January 2025
***Indrakshi II, March 2025 favor embroidery machine files

**Baldrics
*** Provided a new legacy baldric for the Baronial Rattan Champion of the Barony of [[Concordia of the Snows]] (War of the Roses 2024)
***Provided the Crown with new Youth Combat Divisional Championship baldrics (War of the Roses 2024)
***Provided a new legacy baldric for the Baronial Arts and Sciences Champion of the Barony of [[Concordia of the Snows]] (Bjorn's Ceilidh 2024)

*Publications are accessible [https://wordpress.com/post/carrick4.wordpress.com online].
**Developed and delivered a presentation on advanced brewing techniques at The Brewing Schola at War of the Roses XLIV
*** [[File: The_Magic_of_Mashing.pdf]] 
**Researched [https://wordpress.com/post/carrick4.wordpress.com/101 Medieval Medicine] 
**Medieval non-alcoholic drink.
***Documentation for a medieval lemon and raisin drink called [https://carrick4.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/stepponi-documentation/ Stepponi] from [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16441/16441-h/16441-h.htm The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] 

== In Case of Court ==
In case of court contact [mailto:240199@members.eastkingdom.org me] and my pelican, 
Mistress [[Eikaterine tin Elliniki]]

In Case of Peerage Letter [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sjhXCx2UKwVBAsUAJ9uY0a8LueZelsmRikVWgGzDvQM/edit?usp=sharing ICOP]

Preferred pronouns he/him

== More Information ==
Carrick may be contacted via [mailto:240199@members.eastkingdom.org Kingdom eMail]