1994. SCA member since 1990.

Captain, Marshal-in-Charge. Runs the goings-on (more like corralling the creative minds) here-abouts, and bears the responsibility for the decisions of the group...unless, as always, it's Lorenzo's fault.

On September 13th, 2003, Ian realized that everyone around him sucks (but in a good way). His entire Militia, the Order of the Golden Rapier, many Eastern citizens, and indeed even his own wife, conspired to hide the fact that he was to become a companion of the Order of the Golden Rapier at East Kingdom University. For seven months. On that date, it also became apparent that the actual mission of the Militia is to keep Ian in the dark.

"Mad" James Bonney, Captain o' the Queen Anne Arqi, was described thus by the test:

Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Bonney is a Scottish pirate of the 16th century, given to obscure reasoning, arbitrary behavior, and unfathomable verbal outbursts.

Mad Jimmy's ship can be identified by the figurehead of a crazed Diana the Huntress carrying an armload of melons and drooling a bit, and by the fact that the cannon are arranged to fire through the gun ports on the opposite side of the ship. Muppets!

There are two other alternate personas: Ian MacNiann, a 15th c. Scot; and Svengar Hrodgarsson, called "the Graceful", the famed one-armed Viking swordsman.

Baronial Rapier Marshal, Barony Bhakail
Companion of the Order of the Goldern Rapier (OGR)
Cadets: Brunissende de Broceliande (Dec. 2003); Lillia de Vaux (June 2005)
Companion of the Salamander (CSal) (baronial service award)
Companion of L'Ecole de la Salamandre Flamboyante (CSalF) (baronial rapier award)
King's Rapier Champion (Retired), East Kingdom
(Lucan VIII-Griffith I-Andreas III)
Twice past Rapier Champion, Barony of Bhakail
Past Rapier Champion, Barony of Carillion
Member of Queen's Guards of Elspeth I and Isabella II
Selected as a Pennsic Rapier Champion, Pennsics XXX, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI (King's Champion), XXXVII
Former holder of the Iron Ring of The East (May-Aug. A.S. XL)
Alternate persona Ian MacNiann has been a member of the Hounds of Denmark, and possibly the Argent Tyger. Who can say?

Don Ian's Top Ten List: 10 Coolest Things About Becoming an OGR
10.	OGR badge looks sooo cool pinned on Gold Cord
9.	Being the first "Don Ian" in the East Kingdom
8.	Better seats at posh restaurants
7.	Spiffy new club useful for crushing bones of enemies...no, wait, that's for becoming an ogre. Sorry.
6.	Instant pay increase at work (well...a guy can dream, can't he?)
5.	Can refer to Don Ricardo as "Your Excellency"
4.	Doña Marion is my sister again...she hated being "Aunt" Marion!
3.	OGR badge strikes fear in the hearts of younger fencers now gunning for me
2.	Going from cadet 6 of 4 to OGR #64
1.	Hey! It's Don Dogass now, Mister!

Ian works as an graphic designer in Plainsboro, NJ, and lives in Montgomery County, PA, with Annys (the Herbalist), three children, four computers and occasionally, the neighborhood children. Likes to pretend he has some control over his life, or his career, or the Militia that bears his name (see above).