Anéžka Liška z Kolína
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 Anéžka as court herald at GNEW 2022 |
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| Resides: Barony of Carolingia |
| Status: Active |
| Awards: Order of Precedence |
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 Per bend bevilled Or and vert. |
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Introduction
Anéžka Liška z Kolína (she/they) came to the Society in AS 51 because she collects hobbies and the SCA is basically just one big collection of hobbies; she stayed because it's also a monument to enthusiasm and interconnected communities. Her main passion is heraldry of all kinds, with a specialty in Czech onomastics, though she recently began studying Italian rapier (Fabris, primarily) and has rapidly fallen just as deeply in love with it — look for her among the heralds or the fencers, at most events.
Anéžka is also enthusiastic about weaving, calligraphy, music (particularly harp music), pottery, connecting people to other people, shenanigans, being useful, and probably plenty of other things they just haven't dipped a toe into yet.
Persona
Anéžka lives in late 14th/early 15th century Bohemia, in the town of Kolín; anything more precise than that is yet to be determined.
Heraldic
Official:
- Interim Pantheon Herald (submissions deputy), July 2024 to present.
- Blue Tyger Herald (kingdom submissions herald), July 2022 to July 2024.
- Webminister for the Blue Tyger Herald website, July 2021 to present.
- Pantheon Herald (submissions deputy), March 2021 to June 2022.
- Decision staff for Wreath Sovereign of Arms, November 2020 to present.
- Decision staff for Pelican Sovereign of Arms, August 2020 to present.
- Golden Gryphon Pursuivant, Barony of Carolingia, August 2018 to July 2021.
Unofficial:
- Server owner and moderator for the Knowne World Heraults discord server, December 2021 to present.
- Group admin for the What's My Blazon facebook group, August 2018 to present.
Event staff:
- Event co-steward, virtual Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium, Jan 2024
- Heraldic staff for Tindal II and Emerson, 2024
- Heraldic staff for Matthias and Æsa feilinn, 2023-2024
- Heraldic staff for Brennan IV and Caoilfhionn IV, 2023
- Heraldic staff for Mohammad and Corotica, 100 Minutes War, Nov 19 2022
- Heraldic staff for Ryouko'jin and Indrakshi, 2022
- List herald, Crown Tournament of Ioannes II & Honig II, Nov 6 2021
- Court herald, First Court of Fiore & Frithuric, Virtual Falling Leaves, Sep 11 2021
- List herald and general dogsbody, Crown feeder tourney (Quintavia/Carolingia edition), Jul 3 2021
- Scroll reader, various Ethereal Courts of Tindal and Alberic, 2020-2021
Projects, accomplishments, and accolades:
- Commendation from Laurel Queen of Arms for Czech name patterns research, October 2023 Board Meeting
- Update to SENA Appendix A, Czech Patterns, May 2023 LoAR
- Kudos from Pelican Queen of Arms, May 2021 LoAR
- Update to how we consider conflict for comets (contributing commenter), May 2021 LoAR
Rapier
- Chivalry Prize, Uncollared Prize Tourney, Lions Gate Baroness' Inspiration (An Tir), Nov 16 2024
- Winner (Best Period Form), By the Book tournament, Pennsic LI (2024)
- Baronessa's Champion of Rapier [Carolingia], Carolingian Rapier Championship, Jun 1 2024
- Queen's Guard - Feilinn
- Rapier Heroic Champions team, Pennsic L (2023)
- Novice Rapier Champion, 100 Minutes War (East Kingdom Novice Day), Nov 19 2022
- Queen's Guard - Corotica
- Rapier Heroic Champions team, Pennsic XLIX (2022)
Anéžka is a Fabris/Capoferro fencer, but has also begun studying Domingo Luis Godinho's 1599 Art of Fencing as a side project.
Other
- Busking Challenge winner, Harper's Retreat 2024
Classes & Publications
- Or and Vert, Anéžka's blog
Fencing:
- Meatsuit Maintenance: Warmups and Cooldowns for Fencers - first taught at Balfar's Challenge, May 2024
Heraldry:
- Heraldic Consults 101 - first taught at Virtual Midyear KWHSS, Jan 2022
- How to SENA (or, Where the Heck Do I Find That?) - first taught at KWHSS, Jul 2021
- What is Heraldry? - first taught at Carolingia Newcomer Night, Apr 2021
- Documenting Name Patterns - first taught at Virtual Midyear KWHSS, Jan 2021
- Blazonry for Scribes - first taught at Virtual Midyear KWHSS, Jan 2021
- Laurels Challenge entries, May 2021
Anéžka has also served as a roundtable/panel participant for the following:
- Heraldic Research Roundtable, KWHSS June 2022 and KWHSS June 2024
- Stories from the Submissions Desk (Submissions Herald panel), KWHSS June 2023
- Consulting Herald Language Choices: Let's not be That Herald, Virtual Midyear KWHSS Jan 2022
Affiliations
- companie of ye cafe
- Carolingian Calivers
- Scherma Nova Studiorum
In Case of Court
When planning awards for Anéžka, surprises are welcome but by no means required. Because community is important to them, however, please do not keep awards a surprise from their family and friends, particularly Gavin Kent and Remy Delamontagne de Gascogne; this also means do not omit Anéžka from any court summons that are issued. Please also notify the relevant Order prior to the award. Awards in Ethereal Court are acceptable.
Scrolls created and read by her friends are preferred, as are scroll texts based explicitly on period sources. Despite being primarily focused on Czech (and always appreciative of Czech sources!), she also has great fondness for Middle English and Latin, and particularly enjoys the many inconsistent spelling variations found in period texts.
A note about pronouns: as you may observe from this page, "she/they" is a fully interchangeable set of pronouns; neither one is more preferred than the other.
A note about titles: though they are now the bearer of a grant-level award, please do not use THL or its variants for Anéžka. They have strong opinions about this post-period form of address and the fact that per Corpora, grants carry no difference in titles from awards; they will continue to use Lady (or Scholar, in fencing contexts) until they are entitled to something else. Most of the time, though, they prefer to go without a title, as the important titles to them are heraldic ones, and those aren't appropriate for every situation.
More Information
Pronunciation: ah-NEZH-kah LISH-kah zkoh-LEEN-ah (IPA: [ˈanɛʒka lɪʃka z koliːna]) - the standalone "z" is very subtle, more like you're saying "lishka's koleena". Yes, this is a nonsense Czech name. Yes, she did this to herself. No, she's not going to be offended if you get it wrong.
Anéžka does not have a Peer or official mentor at this time; if you have feedback for them, please seek them out and deliver it directly. The majority of their rapier instruction comes from Remy and Donovan, so commentary on that can also be directed to them.
While the image above of her heraldry is the art as originally registered, Anéžka's love for period inconsistencies extends to heraldry as well; as such, here are several examples of heraldically-equivalent ways one might depict her device.
Using the Stuttgarter Schiessen palette from Iago ab Adam's Armorial Palettes, with added diapering. Credit: Iago ab Adam (An Tir)
With the bevil aligned on the per-pale line instead of at a 90 degree angle. Credit: Vémundr Syvursson (An Tir)
With the bevil as a right step instead of a left step. Credit: Cormac Mór (An Tir)
