NR - Frequency of Colors in K&P arms
dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
dssweet at okway.okstate.edu
Tue Mar 24 13:20:11 PST 1998
Hahseika Maleah Farashsa Raushana bint Abdullah, she said quietly:
> So I reiterate, NOOOOOOOOOO RED, except maybe in
>small patches such as the sun on the Ansteorran banner (and I'd still
>prefer another color). Blue sounds great to me.
Hmmm, I think I'll cross-post this to Ansteorra, just in case anyone
from another region might find this useful, & I think I'll send it to
the local newsletter, it'll certainly make an interesting addition.
Maybe I should have compared the relative position of things as well....
[somebody stop me now, please!! :)]
Just to amuse myself (and see how little it takes to amuse me), I
decided to look at the various kingdom and principality arms. All this
information came from the various kingdom and principality web pages and
the on-line armorial, so if anything is incorrect, it's not my fault,
talk to the web masters. There are 15 kingdoms and 8 principalities
(with 2 other principalities/regions that are apparently using arms that
I couldn't seem to find in the on-line armorial [so those are my best
guess-heraldese from the pictures] for a total of 10 principalities).
There's a total of 25 arms.
The usefulness of this quick study is rather small, as any
proposed arms must, of course, be checked against all sca-arms. However,
I felt that a listing of just *what* has been used previously up to now
would not hurt, and it might give those interested in drawing/doodling
up proposed arms (for any Ansteorran principality(s)) items to either
stay away *from* or to *purposely* include.
The East Kingdom is divided into Northern, Central & Southern
Regions. The Middle into 2 Principalities: Ealdormere & Northshield; & 4
regions: Constellation Region, Northern Oaken Region, Pentamere Region,
& Southern Oaken Region. An Tir is 2 Principalities: Avacal & Summits;
& 4 regions: Inlands Region, Rivers Region, Northern Region, & Western
Region; and Meridies into at least 1 region (the western region, Gleann
Abhann). The West has 4 Principalities: Mists, Cynagua, Oertha, &
Lochac. And Drachenwald has 1 Principality, Nordmark. Ansteorra has 5
regions: North, Central, South, Coastal, & West. Any other kingdom not
listed did not have any divisions (regions or principalities) stated on
their web pages.
All kingdom arms are required to have a laurel wreath and a crown
of some type. The principality arms also have laurel wreaths and some
have crowns/coronets.
I've tried to take into account relative sizes of items, but it just
might depend on who draws the arms. I divided the arms up into 4
different areas: field; crown; laurel wreath; and creatures, things &
ordinaries.
BASIC FIELD COLOR
4 x argent, azure
3 x Or
2 x sable, purple, gules
vert
2 x quarterly argent & Or
quarterly azure & argent
checky Or & argent
per pale argent & azure
per pale sable & azure
per pale purpure & sable
From most used to least used field colors, counting .5 for
each half field:
argent 6.5; azure 5.5; Or 4.5; sable 3.0; purpure 2.5; gules 2.0;
vert 1.0
[b means it's big; s is for small]
CROWNS - 18 of 25; not all principalities had them.
3 x crown Or - bbs
2 x ancient crown Or - ss
2 x ancient crown sable - bs
crown of 3 points sable - s
crown of 3 points argent - s
crown dancetty of 3 voided vert - b
a crown of 3 greater & 2 lesser points Or - b
eastern crown of 3 grand points tipped with pearls & 2
lesser points Or - b
crown vallery Or - b
(lion sable) crowned gules - s
crown of 5 points, each point tipped with a mullet argent - b
Saxon crown Or - s
crown vert - b
coronet argent - s
Total: 7.00 Or; 2.00 sable; 2.00 argent; 2.00 vert; .50 gules
LAUREL WREATHS
Vert - 7 [1 each fimbriated Or, held by lion/swan] - 4b 3s
Or - 7 [1 - within a border] - 5b 2s
Argent - 4 - 3b 1s
sable - 2 - bs
proper - 2 - bs
azure - 1 - s
counterchanged argent/sable - 1 - b
counterchanged argent/azure - 1 - b
Total: 7.00 vert; 6.50 Or; 4.50 argent; 2.00 sable; 2.00 azure
CREATURES, THINGS & ORDINARIES (or everything but crowns & laurels)
- 10 of 25 arms have a creature (but 1 has 2 creatures)
2 x dragons (passant vert & passant coward sable) - bb
2 x griffons (rampant gules & passant argent) - bb
2 griffons combattant Or - bb
lion rampant tail forked & nowed sable - b
stag argent - b
swan rousant, wings elevated & adorsed sable - b
wolf sejant, head erect argent - b
ram rampant argent - b
3 crescents argent - b
3 pine trees eradicated gules - b
3 mullets argent - s
2 triskeles azure - b
2 compass stars argent - b
2 arrows Or - s
Ansteorran star sable - b
sun in his splendor Or - b
cross of Calatrava Or - b
escarbuncle argent - b
cross gules - b
4 mullets of 6 points argent - s
trillium flower affronty argent barbed vert - b
compass rose argent - b
cup azure - s
demi-sun issuant from base gules - b
a tressure sable - b
a pale gules - b
a pale sable - b
a border embattled argent - b
a border embattled Or - b
a border engrailed azure - b
a fess wavy, cotised & counterchanged argent & azure - b
a fess wavy azure - b
a pile Or - b
a base argent - b
a point pointed gules - b
a point pointed argent - b
a chevron argent - b
Total: 14.50 argent; 6.00 gules; 6.50 Or; 4.00 azure; 6.00
sable; 1.50 x vert (the barbs)
After counting everything mentioned in each set of arms, I had
109 things, but with just over 20 of them being "small", that dropped
the total number to 99 items mentioned in the 25 arms (3 things- 4 arms,
4 things - 10 arms, 5 things - 9 arms, 6 things - 2 arms). That makes
the numbers essentially the percentages as well.
Fields Crowns Laurels C/T/Os Totals
argent 6.5 2 4.5 14.5 27.5
Or 4.5 7 6.5 6.5 24.5
sable 3 2 2 6 13.0
azure 5.5 0 2 4 11.5
vert 1 2 7 1.5 11.5
gules 2 0.5 0 6 8.5
purpure 2.5 0 0 0 2.5
TOTALS 25 13.5 22 38.5 99.0
Well, Daniel should be happy with the lack of purple, even if
others aren't.
Estrill
Mooneschadoweshire
nordsteorra
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