[ANSTHRLD] CD for Color of Cotises?
tmcd at panix.com
tmcd at panix.com
Fri Feb 18 10:58:53 PST 2005
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Miriam Cook <zahavabathannah at yahoo.com> wrote:
> When checking Armory for conflict, can you get a CD for changing the
> color of cotises?
We can go to first principles for the answer. The CoA Glossary of
Terms includes
Secondary Charge Group. A group of charges on the field around the
primary charge group. A design may have more than one secondary
charge group. Each group may confer difference independently. In
Gules, a pale between two mullets argent, the mullets are the
secondary charge group. The secondary charges in Or, a maunche
between three roundels azure are the roundels. In Sable, a
chevron cotised argent between three millrinds Or there are two
secondary charge groups, the cotises and the millrinds. ...
It says that a secondary charge group is a group of charges directly
on the field. (OK, it doesn't say "directly", but it should: if
they're not "directly", they're "tertiary" or perhaps "overall".)
It says that cotises are secondaries. RfS X.4.b, d, e, f, g, and h
give various types of CDs to "charges in any group placed directly on
the field".
Therefore, cotises get all the CDs of any other secondary charges.
> Example, A pale cotised vert vs. a pale vert cotised sable?
Exactly the same as "a pale between two mullets vert" versus "a pale
vert between two mullets sable", which is to say, yes.
Daniel de Lyncoln
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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