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Old 11-12-2022, 03:01 PM   #740
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Default Re: 'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

Clan McSheila:

Sheila McEdwards: Was a daughter of a lady-in-waiting in the Princely Court of Caledonia (it is customary for retainers to use either the surname of the employer, in this case the royal family or the surname of the family they are born into and there are rules about which is used where). At a young age she showed ambitions toward naval service and enlisted on a Midshipwoman's commission. She distinguished herself and received a knighthood. Then she transferred to the merchant service, for several years ending up as a ship's captain.

When the Prince offered a boon for services she asked for land on McBrendon which was, by treaty, the new extraterritorial colony on Stephenshold as well as permission to found a clan. She set out, founded a clan and after several years of service to gain landholding rights, distributed holdings among "lacklanders" from Caledonia under the liegeship of Earl McBrendon. She remained active in shipping and her clan boasts several merchant ships convertible into privateers as well as productive agricultural territories.

McSheila is a mixed Human/Aslan clan and the Ko of the Aslan portion is accounted a septchief and holds the chief as liege (in Caledonian usage "sept" can mean either a client clan or a subdivision of a clan that is equal in status with other septs). It's present holdings are mainly along the coastlands and toward the edge of the taiga with a grassland region reserved to the Aslan sept. The present chief is Gordon McSheila but he is often gone on campaign as a professional military officer. His wife Erin McSheila handles most of the economic and political affairs directly or indirectly, as well as matters of family concern such as matchmaking. The McSheilas form a battalion of the 3rd Stephenshold Highland Infantry.
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