Master Tonis van Driele, O.L. & Lady Anne Mulligan


To Their Royal Majesties of the Midrealm, Their Excellencies and the populace of the Barony of Sternfeld, we write these letters to express our desire to serve as the next Baron and Baroness of Sternfeld.

We have participated in the SCA for nearly 25 years starting In the Kingdom of Atenveldt and moving to the Midrealm over a decade ago. For mundane reasons we scaled back our participation in the SCA until some four years ago when we started participating with the Barony of Sternfeld. Over the last four years we have been finding our stardust in the SCA again and seek to serve in one of the most challenging roles the SCA has in the hopes to spread the stardust to many others. While we reside within the lands of the Shire of Qu' Al Jafar, we have been participating primarily in the Barony.

Lady Anne is an artisan and a fencer. She has been baronial A&S champion in the Baronies of Sternfeld and Tir Ysgithr (Atenveldt). In past roles she has served as a Baronial Chatelaine and Arts Minister as well as on multiple baronial and kingdom level rapier guards. She is currently serving as the Sternfeld Baronial Deputy A&S Minister. She is currently apprenticed and a cadet to Baron Sir Domingo Diez (etc.), KSCA, O.L., currently of Atenveldt.

Master Tonis is a laurel in Bardic Arts and a founding member Of the Whiskey Bards. He has served as Bard of the Sun, Baronial Deputy Herald & Deputy Seneschal, Baronial Steward, Atenveldt Chaplet (Queen's — I reign) and Crown (King's —2 reigns) Herald, and Principle Court Herald for 2 Estrella Wars. He is the current Sternfeld armored champion [3 rd term] and has served as Baronial Rapier Lieutenant for Tir Ysgithr as well as serving on multiple Queen's Armored Guard retinues. For 10 years he ran the Crystal Flute Bardic and Crystal Fruit Filk competitions at Estrella War. Prior to receiving his laurel Tonis was squired to Herzog Matthias von Loewenburg currently of West Kingdom.

It is our desire to continue fostering the arts of peace and war within the Barony with a focus on growing membership and building communal ties amongst the existing populace. The SCA is built on many things but we believe one of the most important to our society's growth and longevity is the bond of friendship. We will seek ways to increase inclusivity and encourage the social aspect of our society making it not only increasingly desirable to the existing populace but the model of a group that observers will wish to be part of. Our support of the burgeoning "Bards of Sternfeld" is one aspect of how we wish to encourage participation in many common interest groups.

Our children have been finding interest in the SCA over the last several years. Both have served at events they have attended in various ways such as: assisting with feast prep, assisting setting up ranges and tents, participating in archery and thrown weapons, attending local bardic activities, and our oldest is currently fencing (and had tried his hand at armored combat for a while). At this point in our lives, our children are old enough to not need significant oversight at events allowing us more opportunity to tend to any duties or interests we may have.

It is our honor to declare our interest to serve the populace of Sternfeld and the Kingdom of the Midrealm as the next Baron and Baroness of Sternfeld. We place our Letter of Intent in Your hands and await Your pleasure to determine the future leadership of Your lands.

Master Tonis van Driele, O.L. & Lady Anne Mulligan