[ANSTHRLD] help with conflict check

[tmcd at panix.com]

Don't worry if you don't get this: it's fairly obscure and rare in SCA
practice.

"Timothy Rayburn" <timothy at elfsea.net> wrote:
> It is still field-only armory.  If you wanted a less blazon-ese
> blazon it would be more wordy (and more complex to me) :
>
> Per pale
>  - per fess indented argent and gules
> and
> - per fess indented gules and argent

That's a correct blazon, but more succinctly, it can be written
    Per fess indented and per pale argent and gules.

Sometimes multiple lines of division are just concatenated, as in
    Paly bendy azure and argent.
(one way to blazon Bavaria; the SCA Armorial uses the equivalent
"Lozengy bendwise").  But I believe that if the divisions are "per X"
and "per Y", they get an "and" put in:

    Aelfwyn of Longwood|9704M|d|Per pale and per saltire gules and
        argent, ...
    Alexander Sldner|9801S|d|Per pale and per chevron sable and
        argent, ...
    C{a'}el Mactier|9405X|d|Per pale and per fess raguly argent and
        sable, ...
        (I put the "Per fess" first in my text just to make it extra
        clear that only the "per fess" line is indented)

Note that it's the lines of division that are joined by "and", to mean
that both lines of division are in there and that the standard two
tinctures need to follow.  If there's a tincture in there, then it's
nested standard "per X" tinctures, and there has to be at least three
tinctures.

For example,
    Per pale and per fess azure and argent.
can be more succinctly blazoned as
    Quarterly azure and argent.
The two lines of division with only "and" between means that they're
together in the same area.

               |
            az | ar
               |
          -----------
               |
            ar | az
               |

But
    Per pale GULES and per fess azure and argent.
(intruded tincture capitalized) means that the dexter half is red and
the sinister half is "per fess azure and argent":

               |
               | ar
               |
           gu  |-----
               |
               | az
               |

The "per fess" doesn't just have "and" to join it to the "per pale"
part, so it applies only to part of the field.

Don't worry if you don't get this: it's fairly obscure and rare in SCA
practice.

Daniel de Lincolia
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com; tmcd at us.ibm.com is my work address