[Northkeep] re: Device Question

[Marc Carlson]

Chris, try thinking of heraldry jargon as a programming language.  If you 
insert X,Y,Z into a device, it will look like THIS (at least that's the 
theory).  What this does mean though that if you don't look through the 
software using THEIR idea of what the main thing is, you probably aren't 
going to find anything.   Add to that the fact that the Ordinary software 
(while a vast improvement over looking through paper records) is less than 
ideal.

Any meaning or symbolism is frequently up to the person bearing the arms.  
Many of the terms you mentioned are tinctures (which is Heraldspeak for 
"colors").  "Azure" means "blue";  Argetn is Silver; Vert is Green and so 
on.

If you can't wait for Masamune's class, you might looking at some of Modars 
heraldic pages, available through the links and the heraldry pages of the 
Northkeep web site.

M/D

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