[ANSTHRLD] badge help

Teceangl tierna at agora.rdrop.com
Thu Feb 14 21:17:34 PST 2002


> (Yeah, I'm following myself up, it's late...)

And you've done an amazing amount of work.

> > As I read the above return, a mount *is* considered a peripheral
> > ordinary (whether or not it should be is the debate).  So far I've
> > managed to come up with the following precedents:
>
> I re-read this, and understand NOW that Tecangle was referring to the
> proposed badge, with a mountain couped.  So yes, by the current
> precedents, a mount couped is not clearly considered a primary
> charge. (Head hurt, head hurt)

And annoying.  I'll welcome any evidence to the contrary.

> > 	A trimount is equivalent to a base enarched to chief... (Jaelle of
> > 	Armida, LoAR May 1997, p. 8)
> >
> > ...but not to a plain base? Implying (but not stating outright) that
> > a trimount is essentially a type of complex line base.
>
> Likewise, I didn't catch myself here -- there's no CD between a plain
> line and an enarched line, since the latter may only be an artistic
> variant (curvature of the shield and all that).  But I still wonder
> about "three big jaggy bits" being equivalent to a flat line. Not to
> *me*, they aren't, but I don't have enough period sources to find out
> what period heralds thought.

A rounded mount gets a CD for line type versus a flat base.  Likewise, a
mountain gets a CD from a flat base.  But whether a mount and a mountain
get difference is problematic, and they likely do not.

- Teceangl
--
     The sun, moon, and stars are for the birds -- a big naught.
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