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June 2008 
Who Is... Gray Quill?
Posted on May 6th, 2007
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Gray
Technically Gray is the "real" (as opposed to Quill, see below) me; an English-grown and college-bound pretty boy who often believes he's the reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes (sans the opium addiction).
This fall I attend SMU, where I'm aiming for a BA in Linguistics (though I haven't chosen a concentration yet - perhaps Insular Celtic tongues) as well as a minor in Stage Movement. Currently I'm still living at home with both biological parents (including a Captain Chaplain sir) and three younger brothers and their cat, just biding my time...
Though an old (and old fashioned) soul, I don't deny that I'm young and full of myself, high on life and love being me, though I often have to be taken down a few notches. I'm also an introvert, but most people seem surprised by this fact, in much the same way they're surprised to find I'm not actually a liberal, or any of the other large number of things it's easy to assume of me.
Did I miss anything?
Quill
Quill - short for Cuillioc - is, at the very basest level, a Cornish man from around the late 13th to 14th century. He is a Bard, in the most general sense of the word, being a performer who travels about learning songs, poems, and stories to tell, recite, and sing in order to entertain, enrapture, teach and remember.
Originally he was just my SCA persona, and technically that's still the case, but the line between Society life and thinking with what we call "mundane" reality has become so tangled and blurred that Quill is now much more.
My definition of "Bard" does indeed encompass the traditional definition, as well as the idea of bairdd, scop, skald, player, minstrel, troubadour, jonjour, Senechie/seanachie, herald, gleeman, minnesinger, courtier, thespian, and everything in between and beyond, for the moment. That isn't to say that to me these are all the same, but that they share a common thread which I travel on, having yet to find a place to settle. Being an amateur, I have no profession.
Quill does a bit more than sing – he also plays and sometimes dances! As I explore greater aspects of my persona, I’ve found an interest in rapier fighting, in the basics of garb-making, in cooking, and also heraldry (that is, in crying, in blazoning, and even paper-pushing).
Currently Quill resides in the Barony of Steppes, in the Kingdom of Ansteorra, though he considers himself more at home in the Shire of Trelac, and has roots in the Northern Region in the Barony of Namron.
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