SR - Suggestion for Lions Field

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

AElfwyn asked about having a pain in the regalia.

I *really* like a lion, three lions, six lions, a semy of
lions, it's a lion lion lion lion world get yer red-hot
lions!  Ahem.  Sorry.  The lion was far and away *the* most
common beast in period armory.  Most medieval armory did at
most one weird thing per coat, so you see weird things being
done with lions that you don't with, say, carding-combs or
some other rare charge.  In particular, having a lion with a
thing on his shoulder / upper chest is dead common, and a
crown on top is also dead common.

Stars are also common, so I like them if they're the
standard five- or six-pointed equal-armed kind.  I know of
no evidence in period armory for a star with longer and
shorter arms (Ansteorran stars, for example), though they're
registerable.  At least stars are geometric, and hence
easier to do.

I haven't researched crowns to know what period shapes there
are.  Maybe a simple geometric is period (like MM -- the
crown we all drew as 4-year-olds).  Note: you don't have to
have a crown on principality arms.  It's just an option.
However, it *is* required for kingdoms.  I would like the
design to have space for a crown as a precaution if it
becomes needed, he wrote, attempting to tap-dance around
another minefield.  Drachenwald didn't really, and had to
squeeze it in awkwardly.  If it's in the design from the
start, it clearly has room for it.

Daniel de Lincolia
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Tim McDaniel.   Reply to tmcd at crl.com;
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