Heraldry

[Jennifer Carlson]

In response to Michael's supposition that small-group heralds want to do it
all themselves because they do not want to give up any of their power:

Nuts!

I most certainly did not wish to do it all myself (being lazy by nature), and I
could not have done everything by myself and still have kept up the degree of 
quality that I felt the College of Heralds expected from its members.  The only  
way to do the best job possible was to get help wherever I could find it:  and 
yet, I still had it impressed upon me that local heralds were supposed to be 
holistic when Master Tadgh, then Star Principal, told me his policy concern-
ing court heraldry: "Local heralds will do local courts."  That is a
direct quote.  The upshot of it was that, as Tadgh intended, I learned to do
court heraldry; but it was obvious that he intended that the heralds under 
his administration be able to do more than one thing, and if you suffered
from stagefright, you'd better learn to deal with it.

Now, for me, this policy was a good thing, but I'm the jack-of-all-trades
type.  For some other local heralds, this might have been more of a 
burden.

Yours in service,

Dunstana Talana the Violet