Shire History
The Topeka group was formed in 1978 by Lord
Anam, Lady Galawyn and Lord Renwick. The three formed the group the night of a crescent moon and the stars on the arms of the shire represent the three founding members.
Galawyn originally attempted to register the name Crescent Moon but there was a shire back East that already had that name. They next attempted to register Elenithil which was rejected due to the name coming from Tolken elvish. Finally they settled on Etoiles de Lune [Stars of the Moon] as an alternate.
In the late 80s there was discussion of changing the name to something more period sounding (like Carlsby) when the herald, Andreas, saw that the eastern shire had disbanded and it was decided to do a name change as our founders had intended that and Etoiles de Lune, to be grammatically correct should be Etoiles de la Lune.
And thus we have names for the stars...
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