ANSTHRLD - Re: Personal Conflict Check

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

"R. Smith" <superboy at lsh.org> wrote:
...
> Device:
> 
> Gules grillage Or, on a bend argent three roses purpure.

I don't know that grillage was used in period.  Fretty certainly was,
even from an early date.  Purpure was quite rare, only a little common
in Iberia -- 8%, I think?  Both of them are registerable, though.  The
primary charge is the grill.  The bend overall is an overall charge.

> Badge:
> 
> (Fieldless) In bend three roses purpure.

Insta-boing, I'm afraid.  Fieldless badges cannot have disconnected
charges.  (A pawprint and an ermine spot count as connected, by the
way.)  If you redesign to have an overall charge on a fieldless badge,
please be aware that it is allowed to be done only if the area of
intersection is small, like a spear and a sword.  Since overall
charges on badges were very rare at best in period, I advise against
it if possible.

> My lady quite insightfully asked how the heck you tell that they are
> in bend with no point of reference.

You have as much of a frame of reference as any other piece of
armory.  If you were to display "Gules, a fess Or" on a roundel,
lozenge, delf, or some such, you'd have the same problems, or lack of
them.  I bear "A mascle gules" as a badge; whatever I put it on
defines top-and-down to distinguish it from "A delf voided gules".

Daniel <> de Lincolia
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