Virgule's appeal accepted. The bagwyn is cited in the early 16th century and so is admissable as a charge.

The augmentation is to be placed upon the badge of the household, whenever they register an acceptable one. The name means beloved of Heh, the Egyptian god of eternity.

Incorrectly listed under Ansteorra in Conclave Acceptance Letter.

Virgules' appeal accepted. Checky, like all divided tinctures, can be of any combination of colors or metals (even ermine variations). If it is of two colors or two metals then it is treated as a color or metal, respectively, with regard to the Rule of Tincture.

Aten's appeal accepted. There is sufficient difference (barely) from the previous stated conflicts.

The blazon was incorrect in the Conclave Acceptances. The word argent was omitted.

Incorrectly listed as device in Conclave Acceptances Letter. His original device is unchanged. This is a badge.

You cannot be of Imladris (also known as Rivendell) as that was a place where only elves dwelt, with the notable exception of Aragorn. Please pick a different place name.

Appeal accepted with modification of name. The thylacine existed in period and so it can be used, even though it wasn't named until after our period. Since we of course must use the proper but out-of-period name in the blazon, I see no reason that it can't be used as his name, for the sake of canting, so long as it looks like a name and passes the other rules.

The original drawing wasn't blazonable. The addition of a black tip at the top of the chevron converts it nicely to barry dovetailed.

The drops are below the wreath, and the sun and sword are within it. The sword has the arms of the shire on the blade next to the hilt, but that is artistic license.

Hereafter mullets of any number of points may be voided and interlaced except for five points, which is still forbidden. They should be blazoned in this manner. There is enough ill feeling about the pentagram to keep it out under the offensive clause. The appeal by Virgule is accepted.

Appeal by Virgule accepted. These are the stylized trilliums used by Ontario, and hence they are blazonable piecewise, rather than as proper. That way no genus or species are needed.

The eagle is similar to that in the arms of Poland, but that is up to the artist.

Virgule's appeal accepted. A label is a charge just like any other; and may be so used. In the SCA it is NOT a mark of cadence, as THERE IS NO CADENCY IN THE SCA!

You cannot be Thomas Becket von Langevenfeld as that is too close to St. Thomas a Becket. Even though your mundane name is Thomas R. Becket Langenfeld, other people would be offended, not knowing that. Either drop the Becket or the Thomas. What does the R. stand for? Wny not use that instead of Thomas?

This is a stuffed dragon doll made of a tartan fabric in the rob roy style. This is the only blazonable tartan I know of and it is not owned by any clan. Only a cloth charge can be blazoned as this form of tartan.

This means the pile from chief is enarched to dexter, that from dexter is enarched to base, that from base is enarched to sinister, and that from sinister is enarched to chief, as if along a clockwise gurges.

Notice that the augmentations are listed separately. The original arms are unchanged unless, as in this case, they are modified to make room for augmentations. The bearer of the arms still retains the right to display the original arms if desired.

Russell is in the mundane world a licensed doctor. Only a real doctor can register a caduceus or a staff of aesculapius in a device.

This is the arms of his mother with the addition of a label as the one point of difference required plus the consent of the original arms bearer. As we are not using cadence per se it is acceptable to put a label on the mother's arms as well as the father's.

Incorrectly listed under Middle in the Conclave Letter. Conflicts with Aldewinkle: Argent, a cross patee gules, and others (Papworth p.605). Suggest adding a chief gules. Currently there is only one point of difference.

Virgule's appeal denied. The device is a form of dimidiation by quartering. No marshalling is allowed. It is also too complex to adequately blazon short of actually calling it dimidiation by quarters. Simplify and resubmit.

Incorrectly listed under Middle in the Conclave Letter. Conflicts with Delaray: Argent, a sun in splendour gules (Papworth p.1096).

Incorrectly listed under Middle in Conclave Letter. Infringes upon the Province of the Sun, Atenveldt: Argent, a fireball proper within a laurel wreath azure. For your information Ivivis is not Cornish but Nehwocese.

Incorrectly listed under Middle in the Conclave Letter. Too close to Master Beverly Hodghead: Azure, a cross argent, overall an anchor and an arrow in saltire Or. Also close to Aylesbury, etc.: Azure, a cross argent. The emblazon shows the cross too narrow, redraw it wider or call it some diminutive of a cross.

Virgule's appeal denied. The arms of branches must have at least one laurel wreath as a major charge. Nothing else may, including badges and flags of branches. Remove the laurel wreath and resubmit without it or with some other charge.

Incorrectly listed under Middle in Conclave Letter. Knotwork is not, by and large, heraldic. A few simple knots have made it into mundane heraldry (e.g. Bowen knot) or into Society heraldry by definition and the circulation of drawings (e.g. Donnelly knot), but your elaborate interlace cannot be described or defined. Please start over without the interlace.

Incorrectly listed under the Middle in the Conclave Letter. The name conflicts with the Province of Ceantyre in the Kingdom of the West.

There is no such thing as bendy sinister of five sable and gules. This is sable, two scarpes gules, which is color on color. If you must have black and red diagonals, make it bendy sinister sable and gules by adding a third gules scarpe at the bottom, giving six stripes. All divided fields must be divided into an even number of pieces, if only two tinctures are used.

You cannot have a sun in splendour proper, unless you can mount an arc lamp on your shield. In this case it is only a sun, as there is no face. Since the field is argent and the sun is colored Or, this is metal on metal. A broad sable fimbriation of the sun would setle the problem. Better would be a red sun, as fimbriation is a makeshift way of avoiding violations of the Rule of Tincture. You still have the problem of only the fimbriation showing up.

This conflicted with Rodney of El Dorado, who had Or, a saltire sable, overall a unicorn rampant Or, orbed, langued, crined and ungules gules. The differences were one point for a butterfly instead of the unicorn and a half point for the width of the saltire, which was not enough. When you take off one charge and replace it with another you only get one point of difference, even if you change the type of charge, the color, and the position. Your new version in your appeal is: Or, a saltire azure, overall a butterfly sable winged azure. This is now two points different from Rodney, but it conflicts with Alderford: Or, a saltire azure, and others (Papworth p.1059). You have one point of difference for the butterfly. You need something else. Normally I would say that the addition of a major overall charge to an ordinary such that the new charge becomes the primary charge and the ordinary is relegated to a secondary charge would add the necessary half point of difference due to the change in status of the ordinary. But in your case the azure wings are on top of an azure saltire and so they vanish, leaving only the body, which is not a sufficiently major addition to the saltire. If you will change the saltire to yet another color (say gules, vert or purpure) or change the color of the wings, then I will accept the device. As drawn you really have the butterfly on the saltire, rather than overall, and so it is a case of color on color, and worse yet, azure on azure.

Ioseph of Locksley has: Vert, a tree eradicated argent. You have one point of difference for the tincture of the tree. The additions of the small hearts and the erased rather than eradicated do not really give a full point of difference. Many people would assume you were related to Master Ioseph. I suggest that you either change the color of the field or add another major charge, such as a bordure. Virgule's appeal is denied.

Your name is too similar to Merlin the Hermit, which was one of the names of Merlin Ambrosius, the Druid Magician advisor to King Arthur. Your device heightens this similarity by using many of the symbols associated with druids and Merlin specifically, such as the owl. You can use Merlin if you difference it sufficiently, such as Merlin the Blacksmith, and if your device does not look like that of a druid. If you chose a different name the device would pass.

This conflicts with the Shire of the Unicorn in Indiana in the Middle Kingdom.

Redraw the badge so that it is not an exact copy of the Oseburg vessel's figurehead.

My sources seem to indicate that the collie is out of period, being bred in the late 17th century. If you can prove that it existed in period then you can have it. Otherwise pick a different dog.

Except that you don't have this. That's as close as I can come to your wildly involved and coiled serpent. Please redraw the badge with the serpent in a standard heraldic position for snakes.

I am informed that Mc is out of period, and that Mac is the proper form. I will register your name as Seamus MacCryu MacHoo if you want.

The cobras are mostly on the gules field and this is color on color.

This conflicts with the Canton of Wyndemeade in the Kingdom of the West.

Your name is too close to San Andreas, and I am sure that everyone knows of the San Andreas Fault out here. If you drop the Zan the rest is fine. Your device is fine.

Incorrectly listed under Atenveldt in the Conclave Letter. Your name conflicts with the infamous Cain, son of Adam, from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. Drop the Cein or the MacAdam.

What does it mean? Translation not given.

Incorrectly listed under Atenveldt in the Conclave Letter. This is lovely, but it looks like dimidiation, which we do not allow. We suggest seme or geometric arrangement of stars, not a simple per pale line of division, and no constellations.

Incorrectly listed under Atenveldt in the Conclave Letter. This conflicts with Astrid of Hawk Ridge: Sable, a lion's head cabossed Or within fourteen suns in annulo gules, fimbriated Or. Also with Dernley: Sable, a sun in splendour Or, and others (Papworth p.1100).

What you have drawn is Argent, an earthen chalice within two oak leaves conjoined in annullo, fructed in base of five acorns, all proper, even though you call them wreaths of two laurel leaves. The arms of a branch must have the standard laurel wreath. No substitutions. Laurel leaves are long and pointed with no curves like an oak leaf.

Your owl is in trian aspect (i.e. in three-quarters view). You have to make it either close guardant or affrontee. if you turn it to close guardant, it will conflict with Piers Howell de Cambria: Azure, an owl close guardant Or perched on a rock argent. Therefore I suggest you have it close affrontee. If you want, you can have it looking to sinister.

This conflicts with the counterchange of Walters: Azure, a squirrel sejant Or. (Papworth p.97) Try counter sejant.

This conflicts with Adayand Aniantai: Vert, a bezant eclipsed by a decrescent vert voided Or. The bordure is one point. The small trefoil versus the voided decrescent is not a full point, as they are secondary charges, small, and are both vert. Change something or add something.

This is six layers, which is too much. If you remove the sable delf pierced argent I will pass the thing. Right now it is op art, not heraldry.

This conflicts with Hammil: Gules, a mullet Or, and others (Papworth p.990). The field is one point. You need something else. If you add a bordure argent you will have all of the tinctures, although its a little tacky.

Your name isn't a name, it's an epithet. It means Clumsy Wizard, although it should be Mago Torpe. You need a given name. You could be Juan El Mago Torpe, as an example. I would prefer to avoid the fimbriation but its legal, so your device is passable. You will have to change the name.

First of all you need a surname or modifier. You have submitted the quartered arms of your parents, Theodulf of Borogrove and Anne of Caerdydd. In the mundane world for you to use such a combination would imply that both of your parents are dead, which they are not. However, in the Society we do not have inheritance of arms, and we do not allow marshalling. Each person should register their own personal device. Quartering of Society arms would violate the rule of simplicity in too many cases to allow it. It is the opinion of the College of Arms that quartering of arms in the SCA is not allowed, nor may a device appear to do so. Therefore a device may not be Quarterly or per pale, unless it is obvious that the device is not quartered or impaled arms. Quartering also cannot be used for badges, as impaling is allowed there and that is sufficient. There is nothing to stop you from wearing a costume with the quartered arms of your parents. Just do not try to register such as your device with the College. Choose your own device.