[Sca-cooks] Arms, was Mairi Ceilidh

[AEllin Olafs dotter]

So, if after all this, I ever did actually want to use the silly thing, 
I need to get something different anyway? I know I've had badges 
explained to me, but I'm Not Quite Getting it...   how exactly are they 
different?

AEllin
who is unlikely to ever have minions, but could conceivably have a chair 
she wanted to mark...   seems a complex way to do it, but that was about 
the only use I could actually see... for me.

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:

> So far, so good.
>
>> If you ever get minions,
>> they will get tabards with your arms on them, so
>> people will know to whom they belong.  You can
>> paint your arms on various objects, like your
>> tourney chair or your ice chest, as a period way
>> to identify your possessions rather that use the
>> very unperiod "property of ..."
>>
> Not quite right here.  These are the places to use your BADGE, not 
> your device.
>
> A Device says This Is Me.  A banner that proclaims that I am in 
> residence, or garments that only I wear like a fighting tabard or 
> heraldic surcoat.  Only the current ruling landed noble of a Kingdom 
> or Barony, or the herald who speaks for him, gets to wear the full 
> arms of that region.  [There was heraldry test question once:  You see 
> two men wearing tabards of the Arms of the East Kingdom.  One of them 
> is wearing a Crown.  How do you address the other one? The technically 
> correct answer is "My Lord Herald", however  Zenobia's answer was "Hi 
> Arval!" Not inappropriate at the time.]
>
> A Badge says This Is Mine.  My stuff, my householders.  Aeduin has a 
> small emblazon of my arms on his associates' belt, but this is local 
> tradition rather than technically correct usage.  His back-support 
> belt for carrying heavy objects DOES have my badge carved on it, the 
> one with the celery stalk between fox' tails.  Also the caption:  "HOW 
> AM I SERVING?  CALL 1-800-S E L E N E"  mainly because nobody believed 
> I would really do that. <bwahaha>
>
>> There are tons of imaginative ways of using your
>> arms.
>>
> This is undoubtedly true, but only I get to use them.
>
> Selene
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