Scroll Text - Cyrus Augur - Fleur 2025

Kingdom of AEthelmearc - A&S Award

The true Art of the Fleur has many meanings. It is the teaching the manner how to handle weapons safely, as offensive as defensive, as well as the teaching of the skill and strategy of where to move a chess piece upon the board. It is the dedication of teaching the new fencer how to hold a sword and where to position their feet. It is the quiet patience of explaining the rules of chess to any and all who wish to learn that ancient game. There is no doubt that the honorable exercise of the mind and of the hands is made right perfect by means of two things, to wit, Art and Science. Because by the one, We know the manner and method of how to do something, and by the other We show the world the beauty of the thing made or taught. And because the knowledge of the manner of the Art and of the Science does of itself teach us the skill of how to reason and create, and in the end, this is well pleasing to Our eyes. Thus do We, Andreas and Kallista, third of those names, lay down these words and induct Cyrus Augur into the Most Noble Order of the Fleur. Done this 15th day of November, AS60, at Our AEcademy and War College.

Inspired by Giacomo di Grassi's introduction to "The true Art of Defense"

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