[ANSTHRLD] Zelda and a Badge.

Jacquie Ziegler shauna at 2a.net
Sun Sep 29 11:30:40 PDT 2002


Greetings!

> > 1.
> > Fieldless, In Chief, an dexter hand, sable,  maintaining a
> > Besant, In Base,
> > a sinister hand, gules, maintaining a wooden bowl, proper.
> All elements of a fieldless badge must be cojoined to each other. You
could
> do:
> Fieldless, a dexter hand sable maintaining a besant proper cojoined in
base
> to a sinister hand gules maintaining a wooden bowl proper.
> > I believe that besants/coins are default OR and so I didn't add
> > the tincture
> > to the above.
> You list each element with its color, because there is no color for the
> besant; it defaults to the next mentioned color, gules. I added proper
after
> the besant in mine to match what you indicated.

Not completely true - the roundels and gouttes are a special case in blazon!

If something is listed as a 'bezant', then it is by default a gold [or
yellow] roundel.
Period. {and that is the period term, too! :-)}

> > 2.
> > Fieldless, A maiden maintaining a dexter wooden staff proper and
> > a sinister
> > wooden bowl proper.
> I would say in sinister instead of a sinister. If you mean the bowl is on
> the sinister side. I'm not sure how a sinister bowl would be different
from
> a bowl, which is what the blazon above says.
> Eirik Halfdanarson
> Arbalest Herald
> Kingdom of Ansteorra
> arbalest at ansteorra.org

I am sure others will also comment on this, but I think that you
have to say if the maiden is clothed or not! In addition, you have not
really mentioned the position.

Better would be:

(Fieldless) A maiden clothed in [choice of raiment/tincure here]
affronty maintaining in dexter hand a wooden staff
and in sinister hand a wooden bowl, all proper.

As for the other question, 'how about a hag?', if you want an
old woman, draw an old woman. Blazon it as an old woman,
and Wreath will probably, if the drawing is good, call it
an old woman. Remember, all blazons are mutable until
ruled on.

Mistress Shauna of Carrick Point
Golden Wing Principal Herald for the Kingdom of Artemisia





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