About Me

Hi, I’m Esa. 

You can find me Here, on the OP, or here, on the Atlantian Wiki. 

I currently reside within the Barony of Caer Mear in the Kingdom of Atlantia. I specialize in women’s studies, and am a researcher of women’s health from the ancient world to the middle ages with special emphasis on menstruation and sexual health. I am currently serving in the role of Society Minister of Arts and Sciences Women’s Studies Deputy.

A few helpful tid bits: 

  • I use she/her/they/them pronouns.
  • My chosen Peerage title is Ollamh, pronounced like “olive”
  • In case of court or other important SCAdian business, Lord Rudiger knows my schedule and where to find me.

My primary persona is a late Iron Age Orcadian woman (ie, the Northern Scottish islands of Orkney from the turn of the common era through approx 600 CE). As such, I am often found impersonating a broch-dwelling-peplos-wearing enemy of Rome, a brightly decorated Pict, or sometimes, a Romano-British lady about Londinium.  Alternatively known as Venus of Atlantia, my secondary persona of Venus is Roman; inspired by Aphrodite, the ocean, sapphic love, and living deliciously.

celtified arms

Azure, in pale a salmon and a loaf of bread, a bordure embattled argent.

My heraldry is inspired by the medieval “love loaves” and other food magic, and the persecution of women that beliefs like these incited.   “The desperate mistress was condemned for using magic to incite love. Successes were claimed to have been accomplished by her serving a man bread she had kneaded with her buttocks or a fish she had previously inserted into her vagina.”  -From the Buchard of Worms, as quoted in McLaren’s History of Contraception (pg.85).