[ANSTHRLD] Device checks

[PoetLover]

Thank you for the blazonry vocab lesson...I have found a few blazonry
primers online but this explains things a bit better.  :)
Bridgid

> - "-wise" is a word suffix, so no space before it.
> - "Xwise" means "an object or objects oriented as if along an axis of
>   an X", like "in fess three staves bendwise" would be \ \ \.
>   A pile doesn't have an axis like that, or if it does, it's the
>   palewise axis.
> - "Chief" here is a noun, so it requires "a" or a number before it.
>   (In "in chief", there's no "a" or number, but "in chief" is a
>   position on the field, not putting things *on* a chief, as here.)
>
> For
>     http://www.code-works.com/seanan/guyon.jpg
> - The SCA capitalizes these words:
>   * The first word of the blazon
>   * The word "Fieldless"
>   * The tincture "Or"
>   * Uses of proper names, as in "a Bowen knot" or "a cross of
>     Jerusalem".
> - We would usually blazon those things as "rapiers", due to the cup
>   hilts and the thin blades.  That's not a CD from any other type of
>   sword, mind you: blazonable != CD.
> - You'd expect the tips to be very close when in pile.  They don't
>   quite look conjoined (there's a hair of field between then).  So I
>   wouldn't blazon that.
> - "In <arrangement>" can go before or after depending on preference
>   and clarity issues.  Separating "in pile" and "inverted" just makes
>   it sound a tad better to me, but there's no clarity issue here.
> - Oh, and you can omit all but the last occurrence of adjacent
>   identical tinctures.
>
> I'd call it
>
>     Sable, in pile two rapiers inverted, on a chief argent three
>     hearts gules.
>
> Daniel de Lincolia
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