Information on Beacon and Members of Beacon’s Staff

Beacon is short for "Beacon Principal Herald" – one of the Greater Officers of the Kingdom of Meridies. According to Kingdom Law, Beacon is responsible "for the conduct of the College of Heralds, the Masters/Mistresses of the List, and for all the Heralds and Pursuivants" of Meridies. Beacon has a number of deputies to help with this and below this big table are Beacon’s expectations for staff members.

Office Title (short version)	Responsibilities	Officer Term Began	Deputy Succession
Beacon	Oversee all heralds in Meridies and their work.	Bronwen o Gydweli Apr 2010	~
Pennon	Process Internal Letters of Intent from Cypher. Oversee preparation of External Letters of Intent. Educate local heralds on preparing submissions.	Stefan d'Gascon July 2008	~
Lambent	Research conflicts in names and armory submissions. Provide commenting, for Meridies, on submissions from other kingdoms.	Roderick Zweistern Apr 2010	~
Cypher	Receive submission paperwork packets from local heralds. Answer questions on submissions. Prepare Internal Letters of Intent. Post images of armory submissions to the kingdom commenting list (Meridies-LOI). Deposit the submissions fees. Send a financial report monthly to the Kingdom Exchequer. Maintain a simple database on the status of all submissions received.	Mariana Tirado de Aragon Nov 2009	~
Papyrus	Scan documents to save them in electronic format.	Brian MacGrioghair July 2007	~
Torch	Responsible for the conduct of all Kingdom courts.	Alexander Ravenscroft Apr 2010	~
Clerk of Precedence	Maintain database of kingdom-level awards received by current subjects of Meridies. Update information on Society name(s) and home group/kingdom. Mark the records of the honored dead.	Gregory Markham May 2010	~
Bagatelle	Oversee production of award regalia for Meridies.	Gwynna Emrys July 2010	~
Parchment	Oversee production of award "scrolls" for Meridies.	Adela Scrijver van Brugge Dec 2008	Isabella de Boyce TBA
Trumpet	Oversee the implementation of lists and tournaments, especially Crown Lists. Provide education on list heraldry and field heraldry.	Bianca the Inquisitive May 2010	~
Lantern	Educate the populace on medieval heraldry. Work with the Royal University on heraldic curriculums.	Óengus mac GillaDubain July 2009	~
Candle	Responsible for ensuring that new heralds have the resources and knowledge necessary to be successful in Meridies. Acclimate both new heralds and heralds moving here. Help to schedule consultation tables and provide outlines for local classes.	Tobias Morgan Dec 2008	Randwulf æt Blacwulveslea TBA
Lucis	Reporting deputy. Combines information from group reports for Beacon.	Izza Amat al-Rahman July 2010	~
Arbor	Maintain this Web site.	Ýves de Fortanier Jan 2007	~
Ember	Former Beacon Heralds may serve as advisors to Beacon.	Various	n/a

Beacon’s Expectations of Staff Members

Adapted from Mistress Amicia Readyman, September 2007

Be active within the kingdom. To me this means trying to attend at least an average of one event per month other than August and December. That is just 10 events a year. I think it would be hard to function as a kingdom-level officer and be less active than that.
Report quarterly to Beacon on the activity of the office and goals both short-range and long-range.
Be a paid member of the SCA. This is required.
Be a member of the Beacon Staff list (on Yahoo Groups) since Beacon uses it to communicate with the entire staff at once.