Duncan Burns (called Monster)
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About this person
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Persona
Duncan is a Borderer, what many call a Reiver. Most respectable English folks would label him a Scot. Any respectable Scot of course would consider him an Englishman. Both agree that he is not to be trusted around livestock.
Born in 1541, in the Middle Marche of the Debatable Land between Scotland and England. Duncan lived a pretty normal Borderer life, right up until he found himself on the wrong end of a Truce Day. The Warden of the Middle Marche issued a mostly(...probably..) unfounded writ for him to be bound by law until tried and undoubtedly hung for some stuff. Deciding that maybe it would be better to try putting his skills to use abroad, Duncan left the Debatable Lands and began to travel as a man-at-arms. After a few years of running about with a (mostly) German mercenary group he found himself, quite by accident, suddenly saddled with lands and responsibilities in a Kingdom far from his birthplace. He decided to make the best of it, and was mostly able to put his more criminal instincts to bed, but it seems that there just keep being Wars which need fighting. He has been pretty peaceable,even turned out to be a decent landowner, making improvements to the largess given and adding to the coffers of the Kingdom. He even got married and had a son of his own. It's really sad though...cause two years from now(whenever now is BTW) that old writ from the Warden is gonna catch up with him, and he will likely be hung by the neck until dead...as is the third most common death of a Reiver.
So far, that hasn't caught up with him.
So far.
Offices & Positions
Groups Knight Marshal, Shire of Greyhope
Marshal of the Field
Midrealm Army Chief of Operations[two terms]
Regional XO, Unbelted Champions Midlands 4 terms
Regional Legion Commander Midlands 3 terms
Champion in the War Band of King William of Fairhaven I (AS51)
Founder: Combat Camera Corps[overall]/Midrealm[Operator]
Miscellany
Squired to Sir Gueric der Wilde Fuchs || Often assigned the Byname 'Monster'
Married to Capt Mei Li.
Interests and SCA-related hobbies
The 4 cuts, The Place, and True Time.
I spend a fair amount of time trying to shove as many Period Fightbooks into useful ideas as possible.
Awards and Honors
Order of the Willow (Given for Bardic Arts) 28 Oct, 2023/A.S. 57
Royal Augmentation of Arms 18 Apr, 2020/A.S. 55 (Golden triangle dragon scale with green radiant beams)
Order of the Royal Vanguard 23 Sept, 2017/A.S. 52
Order of the Dragon's Heart 23 Jun, 2016 /A.S. 51
Order of the Gold Mace 13 Jun, 2015 /A.S. 50
Order of the Red Company 14 Aug, 2006 /A.S. 41
Award of Arms 13 Nov, 2004 /A.S. 39
Current Martial Database Info
Armored Combat Marshal
Armored Combat Two-Handed Weapon
Armored Combat Two-Handed Weapon
Armored Combat Single Handed Weapon
Armored Combat Pike
Cut and Thrust
Cut and Thrust Rigid Parry
Rapier Single Handed
Rapier Rigid Parry
Combat Archery
