Mira Silverlock

Dame Mira Silverlock, Baroness of An Tir, lives in the Barony of Three Mountains. [[1]]

Her interests include period encampments; tents. She maintains an extensive site on encampments.

http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/index.html

Mira started in the SCA in 1984, at a Far Eastern event three months after she was married. From there, she headed up the household of Kensho, formed of many newbies and good friends, including Fiach CuCool Feardri Ulfredsson, Conchobar Clarsair, and Arik Longarm. She was elevated to to the Order of the Laurel in 2001. She is also a court baroness, so you'll hear her called both Dame Mira or Baroness Mira. She has traveled repeatedly to Pennsic, Estrella, and the Principality of Oertha, to teach, learn, and socialize.

Her persona, Mira Silverlock, was born Anatolian Turkoman in 1540, then married young to a Turkish tentmaker in Istanbul, in the reign of Suleyman the Lawgiver. Her husband died in one of the fires that sometimes break out in the city, and she began running the tentmaking shop.

In 1557, Mira returned to Anatolia to visit family. Just after leaving, she was captured by bandits and after a rough week of captivity traveling, was given to the leader of a Lansknecht group called Ravenslevy as a bribe for safe passage. She now lives in Nuremburg with her husband, General Ragnar von Grimsson, who has retired from war and enjoys running his estates and meddling in local politics. They have three children together, and she occasionally can be seen wearing the local German dress, although she still doesn't really see the point of being so constricted.

She is a member of Ulfredsheim, a household of dear friends. Mira, a devout Muslim, tends to be appalled at how much pork and beer they consume, but has such high regard for their character that she is very tolerant of their foreign gods and odd habits. How she wound up among so many Scythians and Norse and Celts and Kazaks she has NO idea... The fact that her name sounds more suited to someone living farther north is a puzzlement as well (it has something to do with a persona change after people already knew her by the original name, but she doesn't really understand that). Mira speaks Turkish, Arabic, German and French, but struggles to read Arabic. She enjoys time spent in her garden, and is especially proud of the Turkish-style fish pond near her cucumber patch. link titlelink title