[ANSTHRLD] Device checks
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at jump.net
Mon Jul 16 12:52:17 PDT 2001
Bridgid / "PoetLover" <poetlover at spdway.net> wrote:
> [someone else wrote:]
> > (2)sable, two swords inverted in pile points conjoined argent,
> > on a chief argent three hearts gules
> > http://www.code-works.com/seanan/guyon.jpg
> > (blazon feels wordy but device looks good to me)
>
> I tried to check this one (if I did it wrong please tell me). I found an
> easy explanation on a heraldry for kids site
> http://www.yourchildlearns.com/heraldrygame/gamehelp.htm
> Here goes:
> sable, two swords inverted pile wise argent, on chief argent three
> hearts gules
I'm afraid that the first proposed blazon is much closer.
- "-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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