SR - Naming the region
Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Wed Aug 19 08:59:42 PDT 1998
Tivar speculated that we might run into armorial conflicts with An Tir
if we use lions. There are plenty of other lion-related devices
and badges registered; An Tir should not be a particular concern.
As for stepping on their toes by using lion-based stuff:
lions were the #1 beast on period armory. One armorial writer
in period wrote to the effect that "he who beareth no arms
beareth a lion", or some such. Nobody owns any particular
charge. (Unless it's registered to them and we later found
out it's not period so we forbid future registrations of the item.)
In such a case I'd cheerfully call them "poopyheads".
For "Cibola": would someone please check an Ecyclopedia
Britannica to see if it's listed? If it is, it's protected
from conflict and so we couldn't register it.
I like lion-based names and armory because
- the Italian and German suggestions
- there are examples of such names in Italian and German,
and I doubt not in other languages
- it was so common in period armory, along with other
parts (lion's heads, sometimes jessant-de-lys, demi-lions,
...) that you can get very nice and period armory using
lions, or even when you do odd things to them.
Daniel "for certain values of 'odd', mind you" de Lincolia
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