[ANSTHRLD] Heralds Digest, Vol 12, Issue 5
Jennifer Smith
jds at randomgang.com
Wed Apr 4 12:27:14 PDT 2007
Robin wrote:
> > They want to add the Ansteorran star to the "slash" but I am hoping
> > I can get them to hold off on anything else until this gets
> ironed out.
>
> Careful. Several of the augmentations of arms for members of
> this kingdom
> are simply an Ansteorra star added to somebody's arms. I
> suspect that the
> addition of the star would add the appearance of an
> augmentation, and make
> an already shaky submission appear much worse.
While it might make an appearance of an augmentation to some eyes, the
"Ansteorran star" is not a protected charge, and so there is actually no
presumption involved as far as the SCA College of Arms is concerned.
Those fighting surcoats are quite spiffy looking as-is; if only they were a
touch more heraldically historically accurate...
-Emma
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