[ANSTHRLD] device help: gore & scorpion (was: Quo Warranto?)

[Coblaith Muimnech]

Lord Lorenzo wrote:
> I really like the look of the " Dexter Gore"  I believe it is called.   
> So, I was wanting a dexter gore (red), with the rest of the "shield"  
> being green.

Gules (red) and vert (green) are both colors (as opposed to metals), so  
they don't have good contrast with one another.  A gore is a peripheral  
ordinary, which is a type of charge.  Per Part VIII.2.b of the Rules  
for Submissions, "The field must have good contrast with every charge  
placed directly on it. . .,"   
<http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html#8.2>.   Therefore,  
the only way you could register a gules gore on a vert field would be  
as a documented exception.  You can read about what that would require  
in Part VIII.6 of the RfS  
<http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/rfs.html#8.6>.

> Then I would like to put a yellow scorpion on the non gore part and  
> have it tilted left about 45 degrees.

O.K.

> Possible, I would like something in the gored part too but I havent a  
> clue what yet.

You can stop worrying about that.  We don't register charged gores  
<http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/precedents/daud/ 
daud1bg.html#GORE>.

> How would i write that up . . .?

The device you describe would be, "Vert, a dexter gore gules and a  
scorpion bendwise Or," (assuming the scorpion is in its default  
posture).


Have you considered looking to real medieval and Renaissance heraldry  
for inspiration?  There are links to quite a few armorials and images  
from other manuscripts in the Medieval Heraldry Archive  
<http://www.s-gabriel.org/heraldry/>.  The Rules for Submissions are  
designed to encourage period style, so if you start with period arms as  
your model, you'll have a leg up.


Coblaith Muimnech
Barony of Bryn Gwlad
Kingdom of Ansteorra
<mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>