1. What is your mundane name?
Christopher Alexander
2. What is your full persona name?
Christian Amaury de Launey
3. What is your peerage and, if appropriate, your discipline?
Order of Defense
4. How long have you been in the SCA?
23 years. I got serious in late 1995.
5. Can you give us a little of your persona’s story?
Christian was a junior cavalry officer who engaged in an affair of honor and had to leave France for several years. After a comfortable time on the fringes of Elizabeth’s court, the call of home grew strong. He arranged to have himself burned in effigy and his crimes pardoned. Now in his late middle years, he tends his family’s interests, keeps his swordplay sharp and samples the delights of Paris.
6. What offices have you held? What were the greatest challenges of these duties?
Deputy seneschal, local and regional rapier marshal, deputy kingdom rapier marshal. The biggest challenge in the marshallate has been a lack of consistent reporting and recording of injury data. It is difficult to shape policy without data driven arguments.
7. What is your favorite SCA memory (not including receiving your Peerage)?
Lots of choices, here is one. 2004, Pennsic War. We had put together a solid team for the Atlantian 5-Man but one of our fighters, Earl Brian (now Duke) was still in an armored battle, so we took the field with four (Allesandra Bentivegna, Sasha Grey, Diego Munoz and myself.) The first round saw both ladies and three of the other side go down fast. Diego and I had their last two surrounded. He asked me which one I wanted and my reply was the one in the yellow hood. They both stopped and looked at each other to figure out who that was. Diego threw a shot. The last guy(in the yellow hood!)surrendered.
The rest of the tournament was similarly epic.
8. Are you a member of a household or guild? If so, what is it, and how do you participate?
No. The closest I have ever come was being a member of the Black Wing Company in the kingdom of Artemisia. It was a guild that helped grow my early fighting career.
9. What is something about you that you don’t think many in the SCA know (that you don’t mind them knowing now)?
Nothing that I care to admit in a public spotlight. If there is something that you want to know, come ask in person.
10. What advice do you have for less-experienced members of the SCA?
Find balance. The SCA is a wonderful lifestyle and hobby; it has given me some of the finest things in my life. However, it’s a big world full of beautiful things. Stay connected to wonders within and without the Society.
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