[ANSTHRLD] On a mullet of eight points a cross

[Tim McDaniel]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Joshua Brandl <norfildur at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> ok, now that my name and device are currently on ACE, i am starting
>> to think about my badge, this is what i am thinking,
>>
>> Fieldless, On a mullet of eight points sable a cross quarterly
>> argent and gules througout.
>>
>> http://www.jbrandl.net/Jbrandlbadgee.gif

Bless you for providing a picture!  I think your cross should be
fatter, but other people might have other opinions.

I don't know if you care about the mysterious martial art of blazon
fu, but if so,

     (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points sable a cross quarterly
     argent and gules.

The SCA uses "(Fieldless)" to denote a fieldless badge, but the first
word of the blazon proper, the next word, is Capitalized.

A cross is throughout unless stated otherwise.

> i forgot to toss this into the previous email... on Oanda i have
> found
> (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points sable a bird Or.
> registered jointly with Gauss Magn{u'}sson
> for House Golden Raven

You will always have one CD for the "fieldless bribe" against any
other armory, even itself.

The cross in your design, and the bird in Gauss's design, are
"tertiary" charges -- a charge entirely on a charge.  Two significant
changes to a tertiary group gives a CD.  Here, it's type + tincture =
the second CD.  Since the tincture "quarterly argent and gules" is
going to be very rare for tertiaries -- I see only one *primary*
charge using it -- that's gonna help in conflict checking.

Furthermore, it is implied by an Elizabeth I prec. (Christoff of
Swampkeep, 05/05, R-Trimaris) that mullets are simple enough to be
voided and fimbriated.  There's a special rule giving a benefit in
that case:

     ii. For armory that has no more than two types of charge directly
     on the field and has no overall charges, substantially changing
     the type of all of a group of charges placed entirely on an
     ordinary or other suitable charge is one clear difference. Only
     the new submission is required to meet these conditions in order
     to benefit from this clause. A charge is suitable for the purposes
     of this rule if (a) it is simple enough in outline to be voided,
     and (b) it is correctly drawn with an interior substantial enough
     to display easily recognizable charges.

(A substantial change is not oak tree versus pine tree, for example,
but oak tree versus rose.)  So that's an alternate path to get them
clear: bird versus cross is a substantial change of type.

Daniel de Linccolne
-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com