Cormac Mór

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Cormac
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Resides: An Tir Started: 2002 Awards: Order of Precedence Offices:
Heraldry
Per fess with a right step Or and argent.

Thegn Cormac Mór has been in the SCA since 2002. He lives in the Barony of Three Mountains. He is the lord of Poore House, and previously served as Wreath King of Arms of the Society. Though his official heraldic title is Beare Herald, Cormac is best best known by the appellation “the Voice of the War,” which he earned by serving as cry herald for wars across the Known World. He has been described by at least three knights as the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the Society.

Offices & Positions

• Founding Seneschal, Noe College, 2002-2004
• Herald, Noe College, 2002-2007
• Silver Trumpet Pursuivant, 2004
• Bellows Pursuivant, 2004-2006
• Seneschal, Noe College, 2005-2006
• Premier Bard of Dun Or, 7/2006 - 7/2007
• Battlement Pursuivant, 2007-10/15/2010
• Seraph Pursuivant, Barony of the Angels, 9/12/2009-5/12/2011
• Legal consultant to the Kingdom Seneschal, 2/8/2011-6/6/2015
• Crescent Principal Herald, 6/4/2011-6/6/2015
• Thrown Weapons Champion, Barony of Altavia, 2013-2014
• Golden Rose Herald, Sven IV and Cassandra II, 2013
• Golden Rose Herald, Conrad II and A'isha, 2013-2014
• Golden Rose Herald, Agrippa and Bridget, 2014
• Thrown Weapons Champion, Shire of Al-Sahid, 2014
• Seraph Bard, Barony of the Angels, 2015-2016
• Golden Rose Herald, Conrad III and A'isha II, 2016
• Courtesy Herald, 1/7/2017-3/31/2018
• Wreath King of Arms 6/2017-7/2020
• Quarterstaff Herald, Society for Creative Anachronism, 7/2020-11/2021
• Argent Scroll Herald, 3/2022-Present

Event Staff

• Event Steward, Kaleidoscope, 2003
• Event Steward, Baron's BBQ, Bardic and Bash (Lyondemere), 2003
• Event Steward, Kaleidoscope, 2004
• Deputy War Herald, Great Western War VIII, 2004
• Event Steward, Kaleidoscope, 2005
• War Herald, Great Western War IX, 2005
• Event Steward, Kaleidoscope, 2006
• Deputy War Herald, Great Western War X, 2007
• War Herald, Great Western War XI, 10/07/2008-10/13/2008
• Event Steward, Persian Pirate Tournament (Wintermist), 3/28/2009
• Event Steward, Crown Prints Prize Tournament, 6/27/2009
• War Herald, Great Western War XII, 10/06/2009-10/12/2009
• Event Steward, Crown Tournament, August 21, 2010
• Deputy Event Steward, Angels Anniversary, September 11, 2010
• War Herald, Great Western War XIII, 10/05/2010-10/11/2010
• Deputy War Herald, Great Western War XIV, 10/05/2011-10/10/2011
• Deputy War Herald, Great Western War XV, 10/03/2012-10/08/2012
• Event Steward, Coronation, June 1, 2013
• Event Steward, Queen's Champion Tournament, 06/02/2013
• War Herald, Great Western War XVI, 10/09/2013-10/14/2013
• Event Steward, Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium, 06/13/2014-06/15/2014
• War Herald, Great Western War XVII, 10/08/2014-10/13/2014
• Kitchen Crew, Caid Twelfth Night 2015, 01/03/2015
• Master Plater, Caid 12th Night-Winter Coronation feast 1/9/2016
• Master Plater, Caid 12th_Night & Winter Coronation feast 1/7/2017

Classes Taught

• Court Etiquette for Teens (and otherwise), Collegium Caidis Spring 2003
• Survival for Voice Heralds: Beyond Oyez, Collegium Caidis Fall 2004
• Field Heraldry, Collegium Caidis Spring 2005
• Beginning Field Heraldry, Collegium Caidis Spring 2006
• Court Heraldry, Collegium Caidis Fall 2006
• Behind the Trumpets - The College of Heralds, Collegium Caidis Fall 2008
• Grammar and Syntax of Blazon, Collegium Caidis 2009
• Court Heraldry, Collegium Caidis 2011
• Heraldic Flag Design - Various events from 2012 onwards, including Collegium, Pennsic, and Great Western War
• Heraldic Submissions and Anything Heraldic, with Selene Colfox and the Caid College of Heralds, Collegium Caidis 2013
• Brass Etching - Filthy Dirty Collegium 2014, Potrero War 2014, various classes throughout Caid
• Artistic License - Collegium Caidis 2015, KWHSS 2015, Scribal Playday 2015
• Morning Cry - Your Ticket to Fame and Fortune! , Great Western War 2015
• Court Heraldry as Performance (later titled "Court as Theatre") , Isles Bardic Collegium 2016, Collegium Caidis 2016
• Simple Heraldry, the SENA Way, An Tir Online Grand Ithra 2020
• Armorial Display, Virtual Meridian Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2020
• Sir Gawaine and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: The Oath of Chivalry in Malory's Works, Virtual Black Gryphon – Barony of Thor’s Mountain, 2021
• Heraldry for Non-Heralds, Terra Pomaria online class 2021
• Effective, Efficient Courts, KWHSS 2022, An Tir KHSS 2023, Collegium 2023

Projects & Publications

Tournaments Illuminated Feature Articles

• "The Poore House Dayshade" - Fourth Quarter 2010
• "Quest article: Court As Theatre" - Second Quarter 2013
• "Tablet Charting" - First Quarter 2014
• "Stall Plate Etching" - Third Quarter 2015
• "Morning Cry" - First Quarter 2017

External Links

• Cormac's entry in the Order of Precedence
• Poore House, where most of Cormac's projects are posted
• Poore House Academy of Heraldry, where Cormac hosts articles on various aspects of heraldry.