[ANSTHRLD] Device - Conflict Check

[tmcd at panix.com]

"CD" is an abbreviation of the term "clear difference", used in
section X.4 of the Rules for Submission (RfS).

    4.  Significant Armorial Differences - Two pieces of armory will
    not be considered to conflict if two clear visual differences
    exist between them.

[The presence of the word "visual" in there should be ignored; the
subsections define what is a difference for this part, and they are
almost all defined without visualness being a condition.]  For
example,

    a.  Field Difference - Significantly changing the tinctures,
    direction of partition lines, style of partition lines, or number
    of pieces in a partition of the field is one clear difference.

Finding two CDs is one way to clear conflict between two pieces of
armory.  Two other ways are X.1 (addition/deletion of primary charge)
and X.2 (substantial difference in type of primary charge in certain
simple cases).  It's rather a technical subject, I'm afraid.

So assuming that it is real "enflaming" in the SCA heraldic sense
(thank you for the caveat, Blaise), it isn't treated as any sort of
difference at all.

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