[ANSTHRLD] Some help please for a new Herald

[Joseph Percer]

No worries... Everyone starts at some point. To be honest, my armory skills
are nowhere near where they should be. Being Retiarius is very helpful!

Azure, a chevron between three mullets of four points one and two and a
tower Or. 

Note - Not having seen the sketch of this device - I wonder if there is
enough room to have clearly identifiable mullets of four points above the
chevron. This could be an issue. You might drop the number of mullets to
two. 

The possible clear differences we can get for this piece of armory will come
from RfS (X.4) and some likely ones are:
Change of Field tincture (RfS X.4.a)
Addition/Deletion of Charge Groups (RfS X.4.b)
Changes in Primary Charge Tincture (RfS X.4.d)
Changes in Primary Charge Type (RfS X.4.e)
Changes in Secondary Charge Type (RfS X.4.e)
Changes in Secondary Charge Tincture (RfS X.4.d)
Changes in Secondary Charge Number (RfS X.4.f) (One two and three are
significantly different from any number)

Conflict checks are most easily performed using the Ordinary - as opposed to
the search engine. 

Searching under - Chevron - 1 - Uncharged - Plain line - Or:
	No conflicts found
Searching under - Chevron - 1 - Uncharged - Plain line - Argent:
	No conflicts found
Searching under - Chevron - 1 - Uncharged - Complex Line - Or
	No conflicts found.

I would say the above device is conflict clear. 

However, you still need to overcome the issue imposed by RfS VIII.3, which
says elements must be used in a design as to preserve their individual
identifiability. Put the sketch on your fridge, and walk across the kitchen.
Can you still tell that ALL the mullets of four points are mullets, or do
you confuse them with anything else?

<<More experienced heralds, feel free to correct any mistakes I might've
made... I need to get out of the habit of making them, if I am :) >>


Yours in Service,

Jayme Dominguez del Valle
Seawinds Pursuivant
Retiarius Pursuivant


-----Original Message-----
From: heralds-bounces+jpercer=gmail.com at ansteorra.org
[mailto:heralds-bounces+jpercer=gmail.com at ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Ó Floinn
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:47 PM
To: Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA,Inc.
Subject: RE: [ANSTHRLD] Some help please for a new Herald

<snip>
In plain English, the picture is thus:

A blue shield with three golden stars of four points each equally spaced and
following closely above but not touching a gold bar across the middle of the
shield that is bent upwards in its middle and having a golden tower at the
bottom.

<snip>

Charlie Flynn
? Charles Ó Floinn, ?
Kilgore, Texas