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To aid historical recreation, participants in the SCA create historically plausible characters known individually as personae.

To new members, a persona can simply be a costume and a name used for weekend events, while other members may study and create an elaborate personal history.

The goal of a well-crafted persona is a historically accurate person who might have lived in a particular historical time and place.

The SCA has onomastic students who assist members in creating a persona name appropriate to a particular time and place within the SCA's studied period.

However, claiming to be a specific historical individual, especially a very familiar one ( e. g. Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Henry Plantagenet, Queen Elizabeth I ), is not permitted.

Likewise, one is not allowed to claim the persona of a fellow SCA member, alive or dead.

Nor is one allowed to take on the persona of a sufficiently familiar fictional character ( e. g. Robin of Locksley / Robin Hood ).