Emelyn Fulredy
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Emelyn Fulredy is a heraldry zealot who served as Hazel Leaf Pursuivant from 2013-2016. Though currently between offices while caring for a newborn, she is Bardic Champion of Terra Pomaria and a courtier to Their Excellencies.
Armorial research, design, and consulting are Emelyn's primary passions. She also loves onomastics and the "voice" side of heraldry. Her other interests include period music (for voice, recorder, or pipe and tabor), scribal arts (mainly drawing), persona development, and backgammon.
Emelyn's charming and friendly husband, Gregory de Munemuth, supports her by chasing their three young sons around. If you see him at an event, please challenge him to a game of chess!
Persona
In persona, Emelyn and Gregory are Lincolnshire folk of exactly 700 years ago, which makes this 1317 for them. Their aesthetic and historical touchstone is the Luttrell Psalter.
Emelyn was born in Cambridge to a lay astronomer and his wife. Gregory is the second son of a Knight Hospitaller who disappeared shortly after settling his family in recently-conquered Wales. After working all his life to become a priest, Gregory dropped out of his schooling just weeks shy of receiving tonsure in order to marry Emelyn instead. Fleeing north from the ensuing scandal, they ended up in Lincoln. There they earned the favor and patronage of an eccentric vicar who now employs Gregory as a clerk, courier, and tutor at the magnificent new Lincoln Cathedral. Emelyn helps with these tasks on occasion, and otherwise is kept busy by running her household, finding a few spare moments here and there to draw, play her pipe, or privately study heraldry. But she has these strange, recurring dreams about living in a faraway kingdom called An Tir...