[Sca-cooks] Mairi Ceilidh

[Elaine Koogler]

So far as supporters are concerned, usually they are humans or animals 
of some sort...often what are termed "monsters" (unicorns, dragons, 
etc.). I don't know that I've ever seen plants or animals used that way, 
but, as they aren't registered, I suspect you can do whatever you want.

Kiri

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> They're extremely-rare-to-non-existant here in Artemisia. The only 
> ones *I've* ever heard of are the augmentations that Counts/Countesses 
> and Dukes/Duchesses will add. And perhaps one or two of the 
> former-landed baronage.
> I've never heard of anyone granting *supporters*, though...always 
> thought they were an unofficial heraldic thing.
> Kiri, you obviously know Things Heraldic....Do you happen to know if 
> trees and plants are okay as supporters? I'd really like a birch 
> tree....and now that my arms have finally passed (after 4 years!), I 
> can actually get something going like commissioning a peerage scroll.....
> --maire, who's enough of a bum this morning that she can't even come 
> up with OFC.....*sigh*....
>
> Elaine Koogler wrote:
>
>> Yeah, they are pretty rare here...Royalty tends to make gifts of 
>> supporters rather than augmentations. They started doing this while I 
>> was Principal Herald...it was difficult to tell them that you don't 
>> register supporters...they exist outside the actual device. I believe 
>> that some of the Crowns, as well as the populace, kind of got the two 
>> confused. Phillip and I are in the process of submitting forms to get 
>> another augmentation added to our Arms...as we are Barons, we are 
>> entitled to an augmentation of a baronial coronet. The big problem is 
>> figuring out how to add the augmentation without ruining the design 
>> of your device!
>>
>> Kiri
>>
>> Stefan li Rous wrote:
>>
>>> In this kingdom (Ansteorra) at least, this is a rather rare award. 
>>> Although perhaps a bit less rare than a Master-of-Arms being awarded 
>>> in Meridies. :-)
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>
>>
>>
>
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