Heraldry

[Aodhan Ite an Fhithich]

Dia duit!

 [Replying to a message of Dottie Elliott to All]

 DE> I do not know what the college of heralds is doing now, but when I was
 DE> an active herald in the East Kingdom and Arval was the Kingdom
 DE> herald, he was arguing hard to allow other period styles to be passed
 DE> (as long as they were documentably period), such as German and
 DE> Japanese heraldry.  I do not know if he was ever succesful, though. 

Arval was not successful.  At best the CoA might consider and individual
submission using some particular regional style, *if* the submittor provides
heavy documentation.

My view on this is somewhat more extreme than Arval's - I think we should
enforce temporal consistency in names and armory.  If you're a 14th C German,
the elements of your name would have to have been used in Germany in the 14th
C, as would the elements in your armory.  Further, conflict could only be
called against German armory (or other countries the Germans would have
checked against) extant in the 14th C.  In other words, consistency with the
time period the submittor's persona is portraying.

 DE> I think this would be quite nice, since folks could then register
 DE> heraldry the is most appropriate for their personna.

And, they might accidentally learn something about their chosen time and
place.

 DE> I do mind blatant moderness since I joined the
 DE> SCA to do medieval re-creation and would like that to be part of our
 DE> heraldry ...but then that's my problem.

On the contrary, it's the problem of everyone who plays in the SCA but *isn't*
interested in medieval (or rennaissance) re-creation.

Feicfidh me' ari's thu',

Aodhan
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