[ANSTHRLD] blazon question

[lburgin]

Thanks for the feed back, I love the nit-picking (hyphen, I can be taught). 
AmberLea
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tmcd at panix.com>
To: "Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] blazon question


> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, lburgin <lburgin at gt.rr.com> wrote:
>> Hi gang, I am sorry I don't have a picture, but the question is:  Is
>> it possible to blazon a major charge "per fess" when it is not a
>> counter-change situation?  The blazon I propose is:  per fess argent
>> goutee du (red) and gules a double headed eagle displayed per fess
>> sable and Or and in base three orthodox crosses Or.
>>
>> I'm sorry I can't remember the goutee and my books are loaned.
>
> There's a filk song to the tune of "Do Re Me" about the special names
> for gouts, but it ends
>     Now you know the words to say,
>     Use the tinctures anyway.
> I don't bother to remember any of the special gout names.  Registered
> blazons of late appear to use whichever terms the LoI had on its
> proposed blazon, but using just the plain tinctures predominates
> lately.  (By the way: "goutty de sang", 'drops of blood'.)
>
> Minor blazon fu: SCA blazons capitalize
> - The first word of the blazon
> - Proper names (like "Orthodox")
> - "Or".
>
> Compound adjectives are hyphenated.  (E.g., "I am an anal-retentive 
> twit".)
>
> SCA blazons use English spellings in most cases, so "goutty".
>
> As Emma noted, per fess is like any other tincture description, so you
> can have a per fess charge that's not counterchanged.  The background
> can be solid, or not.
>
> You can even say "counterchanged TINCTURE1 and TINCTURE2", which means
> "it's like counterchanged, except that, rather than use the underlying
> tinctures, use TINCTURE1 and TINCTURE2 instead".  I suggest
> "counterchanged T1 and T2", because it makes it perfectly clear that
> the per fess line on the field and the per fess line on the eagle are
> identical.
>
> So:
>
>    Per fess argent goutty gules and gules, a double-headed eagle
>    displayed counterchanged sable and Or and in base three Orthodox
>    crosses Or.
>
> If the same tincture is used several times unbroken in a row, you can
> elide all but the last.  So you can remove the first "gules" above;
> I preferred to leave it in to produce a smoother blazon.
>
> Daniel Lindocolina
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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