Sulicena filia Vassurae

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Image captured by Sage Élan de Janvier
Information
Resides: Malagentia
Status: Active
Awards: Order of Precedence
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Introduction

Sulicena filia Vassurae (she/they, formerly Tiffan Fairamay, mundanely known as Sylvan Thorncraft) is a very curious person who loves to make beautiful things. She wonders a lot about human life ways, and how our personal lives, beliefs, and domestic practices are part of a sweeping arc of time, history, and evolution of culture. She also harbors a long standing love for, and curiosity about ancestral roots, fairy tales, and folk ways.

Persona

Rooted in pre-Roman Iron Age Britain, Sulicena’s people live in a small inhabitation built upon a fen carr next to the River Brue, the remains of which are now called the Glastonbury Lake Village. Learn more here.

Affiliations

• Apprentice to Camille des Jardins, November 2018 to July 2023
• Laurel for her apprentice Lydia Webbe, July 2024
• One third of the Thee Headed Peer (with Christiana Crane and Brenden Crane) for their student Sage Élan de Janvier, July 2025

Offices, Positions, Guild Associations

• Keeper of the Forest Court of Malagentia, July 2023 to July 2025. Guild Member/Forester - East Kingdom Foresters Guild, May 2022 to August 2025.
• Scribe - East Kingdom College of Scribes, April 2018 to the present. Semi retired. Visit my Scriptorium to see finished projects.
• Guild Member/Journeyman - Keepers of Athena's Thimble, July 2019 to the present.

Papers & Publications

• Historical work on Instagram - 2024 to the present
• Artifacts of a Life VI: Things I Have Dropped, Forgotten, or Tossed - November 2025
• Foraging Project - 2023 to 2025
• Sulicena filia Vassurae: Persona Project - Updated January 2025
• Egtved Clothing Project - January 2025
• Blogged at: https://thornandthread.wordpress.com - 2014 to 2024
• Tyger Camp Challenge 2021, The Moonstone, Province of Malagentia Newsletter, March 2021
• Warding Off Plague and Other Miasma with Pomanders, The East Kingdom Gazette, March 2021 (With supplemental article on my blog: Pomanders: of What and How they are Made)
• Chivalry Renewed, The Moonstone, Province of Malagentia Newsletter, November 2018

Image captured by Brenden Crane at the Great Northeastern War (2023). Pictured with Bo of Malagentia, Kevin D'Noe, Gaius Claudius Valerianus, and Zhigmun' Czypsser.

Classes Taught

• Displaying Your Work - Autumn's Inspiration 2025
• Getting to Know White Pine - Endewearde Hunt 2024
• Processing Acorns for Food and Dye - Harpers Retreat 2024, Endewearde Hunt 2024
• Making Cordage with Day Lily Leaves - the Endewearde Hunt 2023, Harpers Retreat 2024, Silver Wyvern 2024, Hrim Schola 2024
• The Gift of Garb, a discussion exploring our relationship with garb - the Stonemarche Garb Schola 2023, Hrim Schola 2024, Autumn's Inspiration 2025
• Dying Fiber and Fabric with Acorns - Forest Court of Malagentia Gettogether, December 2022
• Part of the Malagentia Scribal Night Teaching Team - November 2021 to November 2022
• Producing Directly Applied Tablet-Woven Trim - Autumn's Inspirations 2018, Great Northeastern War XXXIV (2022), The Stonemarche Garb Schola 2023
• Exploring Carmelite Water - Autumn's Inspirations 2018
• Warding Off Plague and Other Miasma With Pomanders - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018), and 12th Night in the Shire of Panther Vale 2023
• Sew Your Own Hood (Youth) - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018)
• Make a Set of Quoits (Youth) - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018)

Projects In Service

Scribal work donated (2018 to the present)

• 18 East Kingdom scrolls (illumination and calligraphy)
• 2 East Kingdom scrolls (calligraphy alone)
• 5 East Kingdom scrolls (wordsmithing)
• 1 Baronial scroll (illumination and calligraphy)
• 7 Blank scrolls
• Winner of the 2021 Endewearde Hunt scroll (words, calligraphy, and illumination)

Pewter Harvest Moon site tokens (soapstone mold)

Additional work

• Creation and donation of largess for the Kingdom and the EK Royal Foresters Guild - including Roman style clay oil lamps, pomanders, amigurumi mushrooms and other items for the EK toy box, embroidered forester badges, lucet cords, bags and pouches, etc. As well as specific projects like weaving the strap for the Forest Court of Malagentia's hunting horn. (2018 to the present)
• Designed site token for Great Northeastern War (2022)
• Cast pewter site tokens for Harvest Moon (2021)
• Cast pewter site tokens for EK Rapier Champs (2021 - Cancelled due to COVID)

Awards & Accomplishments

• Elite Category Winner, Artifacts of a Life VI (2025)
• Sovereign’s Award of Esteem, from King Matthew des Arden - Stonemarche Baronial Investiture of Gerhardt and Amalie Von Hohensee 2025
• Honorable Mention in the Birka Fashion Show 2025
• Provincial A&S Champion (Malagentia) - Harvest Moon 2024
• Order of the Laurel, Great Northeastern War, July 2023 (Brennan IV and Caoilfhionn IV)
• Typical Category Winner, Artifacts of a Life V (2023)
• Order of the Maunche, 100 Minutes War, November 2021 (Ioannes II and Honig II)
• Gifted a Token of Inspiration by Consul Alberic at the XI Ethereal Court of the Eastern Consules, July 2021 (Tindal & Alberic)
• Order of the Silver Brooch, Crown Tournament of Wilhelm & Vienna, November 2018 (Wilhelm & Vienna)
• Malagentian Provincial A&S Award, Autumn's Inspirations 2018, Malagentia

Interests

Illumination inspired by the Rothschild Prayerbook

• Material Culture
• Scribal Arts (Illumination and calligraphy)
• Plants (Herbal medicine, traditional foods, dyestuffs)
• Fiber Arts (embroidery, garment fabrication, spinning, weaving (especially tablet))
• Leatherworking
• Metal Casting
• Folk Traditions...

In Case of Court

• Surprises are fine but not necessary.
• Please speak with Lydia Webbe or Camille des Jardins in case of court.