LETTER OF ACCEPTANCES AND REJECTIONS January 23, 1981 XV
ACCEPTANCES BY KINGDOM
Kingdom of Ansteorra
Adelicia Alianora of Gilwell. Name change OK. Addition of Alianora.
Aleana Gorwydd Gwyn. Per bend sable and azure, a pegasus counter-volant and in base a mullet of seven points argent.
NOTE: In Welsh, the adjective follows the noun, so I have moved "Gwyn" to the end.
Bjorn Magnusson Esping. Badge for House Stormgarth. Gules, three pallets dancetty and a chief invected Or.
Branwyn O'Brallaghan. Azure, in pale two whippets in full course bendwise sinister argent, collared gules, and on a chief argent a fox sejant regardant Or enflamed gules.
NOTE: The bells are too small to be mentioned in the blazon.
Cadfan Dragonwys. Argent, on a pair of flaunches sable, a pair of griffins combattant Or.
Frederick von Sternwald. Per pale embattled azure and argent, a mullet and a lyre counterchanged.
Guy of Brackley. Gules, a fess Or overall on a pale argent a cross patty elongated in pale sable.
Ian O'Bruadair. Or, a sword argent enflamed gules.
Ivar the Vulgar. Or, in pale a horse's head and a double-bitted axe sable, the edges each radiating five points gules, between in chief two lightning flashes in chevron inverted azure.
Johann Buchwald Flashingquill. Per pale gules and azure, a lightning flash bendwise sinister argent within a bordure Or.
Megan Andoniel of Glengalen. Argent, a chevronel throughout issuant from a bar abased vert, in pale a thistle proper between a decrescent and a compass star Or.
NOTE: "Abased" means lowered to base.
Melusine Whitcroft. Badge for House Whitcroft. Per pale azure and sable, a black-faced lamb couchant regardant proper, charged with a pen bendwise sinister azure, quilled sable.
Mona Sceaduw, Shire of. Sable, in pale a sun eclipsed argent and a laurel wreath, a chief Or.
Morwynna of the Stormy Seas. Argent, semé of Celtic crosses azure, a lion sejant affronté, dexter forepaw raised, gules, and a ford sable and argent.
Robert Hellmanstahl. Name change. Formerly Robert Galva'nnyzed. Argent, a mullet of three points gyronny of six sable and argent.
Sydail ap Allain. Per bend and per pale sable and gules, a sword bendwise sinister proper.
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Achmed of the Hill Tribes. Per pale gules and Or, a heart between two scimitars addorsed, all counterchanged.
Aengus MacEdwyn. Vert, a stag's head cabossed argent, orbed and attired of flames proper, resting on its head a chalice Or.
Alexis Aubury. Azure, a horse counter-couchant Or within a bordure wavy argent.
Atenveldt, Barony of. Argent, a laurel wreath flammant proper within a bordure gules.
Aurien Chimerstone. Per chevron vert and Or, a winged bull statant, tail sufflexed, argent, and a pomegranate proper.
NOTE: By default the two charges are in pale. The exact minor details of the Assyrian winged bull versus a normal winged bull are matters for the artist, not the blazon.
Dosia of Glendalough. Gules, ermined argent, a unicorn bicorporate rampant addorsed, argent.
NOTE: By default the head is to dexter.
Estariana Northolm. Or, a dolphin haurient sable within a bordure engrailed vert.
Gyde Dragonshield. Or, a dragon counter-sejant erect between in chief two Irish harps addorsed gules.
Ishiyama Namban Tadashi. Argent, in chief a barrulet gemel bevilled arrondi and issuant from base a wave reversed, all within a bordurelet sable.
NOTE: "-no-kami" means the person is armigerous. It is not part of the name and may not be registered.
Jerilyn of Vert Silva. Argent, a cross patty within an annulet sable, on a chief triangular vert a unicorn's horn inverted argent.
Johann von Hohen-Staffen. Badge for Knight's Rest. Azure, in saltire a dagger inverted argent and another Or, overall a heart gules.
Kate Philippa o'Shion. Gules, a crescent within a spokeless Catherine wheel, all within a bordurelet Or.
Marika NicLachlainne na Gunn. Per bend sinister argent, goutté de larmes, and azure, a sword Or enfiled with an annulet gules.
Rhonwen y Llysieuyddes. Name change. Add "-des" for feminine ending.
Robin of Mightrinwood. Per fess azure and sable, on a fess Or a bridge double-arched and towered sable.
Shron Ravenhair. Sable, on a plate a mullet of six points throughout sable charged with a compass star of twelve points throughout pierced argent.
Thorgeirr Gunnarsson. Argent, a shakefork gules between three boar's heads couped close sable.
William Gallowglass. Sable, in chief on a plate a satyr dancing and playing a flute proper, issuant from base a demi-sun Or.
Clan Chlurain, Badge. Per fess gules and Or, a sheep passant argent, its sinister foreleg in a tub sable.
NOTE: Clan Chlurain spans several kingdoms and so is registered under its own name. The chieftainship rotates.
Kathryn du Vent de Mer of Whitewolfe. Argent, ermined gules, a heart gules pierced in saltire by two tridents and in pale by a trident inverted Or.
NOTE: This was passed at an earlier date, but not entered in the Ordinary.
Kingdom of Atlantia
Atlantia, University of. Or, an apple slipped and leaved within a wreath of apple blossoms slipped and leaved, proper, on a chief azure a pallet wavy endorsed argent.
Atlantia, University of. Badge. Or, an apple slipped and leaved within a wreath of apple blossoms slipped and leaved proper.
Aiken of York. Azure, three oak leaves in pall argent between three acorns in pall inverted Or.
Black Diamond, Shire of. Or, a lozenge within a laurel wreath sable.
NOTE: Amazingly, it doesn't conflict!
Genevieve of Nottinghill. Name approval only.
Ilya the Fey. Sable, a bend between a crescent inverted and a demi-sun bendwise, all within a tressure argent.
NOTE: "Ilya" is a masculine name. She can have it, but does she really want a masculine name?
Ioannes Nikaias. Azure, mullety of eight points Or, in chief on a bezant an open book argent bound sable and in base a flame proper between in fess two Greek oil lamps respectant Or.
Ismael ibn Murad al-ben Mohammed nasil Hakim. Counter-ermine, a roundel engrailed gules, overall four arrows inverted in saltire argent.
Kathryn Courtney. Argent, on a roundel engrailed sable between three posies of three purple violet blossoms slipped and leaved proper (Viola odorata) a cat passant guardant argent.
Marinus, City-State of. Badge. Per pale vert and argent, a pallet and on a chief argent a trident sable.
Minowara Kiritsubo. Argent, a pellet clasped per pall by three dragon's talons conjoined gules, armed Or.
NOTE: This was passed with an argent field for Society use on scrolls. She may drop the field for personal use as a mon. A device must have a field.
Oliver de León de Oro. Sable, a chevronel between a demi-sun and a lion rampant. Or.
NOTE: An adjective must agree with its noun in both gender and language. I have changed d'Or to de Oro to have it match the language of its noun, de León, i.e., Spanish.
Philena Kyla nir Connell. Or, on a pile bendwise sinister issuant from dexter base purpure a plate charged with a heather bush (Calluna vulgaris) proper, all within a bordure engrailed vert.
Philip of Ghent. Argent, a monster consisting of the coiled body of a serpent and the head and breasts of a woman vert, crined and orbed gules.
Philip of Ghent. Badge for Clan Inazuma. Issuant from a single-strand, double-spiral Japanese lightning flash lozengewise in chief and in base two scarpes, all voided.
KINGDOM OF ATENVELDT
Margaret of ye Misty Moor. Per chevron azure and gules, a lion's head cabossed Or grasping a broken sword fesswise reversed proper.
NOTE: Passed at an earlier date, but not entered in the Ordinary.
KINGDOM OF CAID
Amanda Januaria of Silver Woods. Per chevron throughout argent and vert, three fir trees one and two argent and in chief a heart gules and a mountain goat's head couped proper (Oreamnos americanus)
NOTE: "Januarius" is masculine and "Januaria" is feminine. The feminine gender is clearly called for. By default, the goat has the brown summer phase coat because you can't put the white winter phase coat on an argent field.
Brann Morgan Dunmore of Galloway. Badge for House Dunmore. A cockatrice counter-erect Or drawing a sword proper from a scabbard proper.
Gunther Garrison of Hangarstad. Potenty azure and Or, a bottlenosed dolphin counter-embowed and in chief a decrescent and a mullet argent.
NOTE: A bottlenosed dolphin means Tursiops truncatus. The genus and species need not be specified if the common name for a well-known species is given. If you want a different species, you must so specify. The word "bottlenosed" means that this is a natural and not a heraldic dolphin.
Hagar Hagarsson. Bendy sinister sable and gules, a bear statant erect affronté, grasping in its forepaws a halberd bendwise argent, the bear's jaws embrued gules.
NOTE: "Hagarsson" is the correct form, as it is a contraction of "Hagar's son."
Roxane of Barnby Moor. Argent, on a fess sable between a Bengal tiger passant proper and a bell, an arrow reversed Or.
Toranaka Yojiro. Sable, chapé, three passion nails conjoined at the heads in pall inverted argent and in chief two crosses crosslet fitchy sable.
NOTE: "Toranaka" is a surname and therefore comes first.
Kingdom of Ansteorra
Burke Kyriell MacDonald. Per bend wavy argent and sable, a galley with sails furled, oars in action sable, pennanted gules, and a sun eclipsed Or.
Steppes, Barony of. Order of the Oak. Or, on a pale sable endorsed vert an oak leaf inverted Or.
Kingdom of Meridies
Alisoun MacCoul of Elphane. Companions of the Beaten Ass transferred from Barony of Hammerhold.
Kingdom of the Middle
Bess the Obscure. Vert, a grizzly bear counter-rampant (Ursus horribilis) proper.
The Dark Horde. Per pale embowed and counter-embowed gules and sable, a lightning flash bendwise sinister Or.
Kingdom of the West
Alessa Elrica Attenborough. Per bend embattled azure and gules, a unicornate lion's head Or and a garden rose bendwise argent slipped and leaved vert.
Arachne's Web, Order of. Badge. Sable, a spiderweb argent.
NOTE: The Order of Arachne's Web is now a multi-kingdom Order of lacemakers. Its badge is therefore being registered under its own name. (It was formerly registered under Galina de Keri.)
Artegall Stonehollow. Or, a boar rampant sable between four cloves proper, a chief sable.
Benjamin von Ermantrodt. Badge. Or, a winged roundel sable.
Catherine Kenda of Stillwater. Per chevron sable and gules, a chevron embattled-counter-embattled Or between two cocks close respectant argent and a Catherine wheel Or.
Catriona Gillander. Azure, a tau cross throughout between in chief a panther passant guardant argent. incensed proper, and in base an increscent and a decrescent, all argent.
Catriona Gillander. Badge. Sable, in bend three eagles palewise rising, wings addorsed, gules fimbriated Or.
Ceridwen MacAoudhegain. Per chevron throughout gules and Or, a wolf sejant, head raised, sable and in canton a mullet of four points Or.
Cushag an Ellan Vannin. Per bend potenty argent and azure, in bend three fleurs-de-lis palewise azure and in bend three triskalions of armored legs Or.
NOTE: Potenty is a line of division as used here. Potenty is also the name of a fur.
Dagian MacCaster Bubblesbane. Gules, a chevron ermine between in pale a plate and a wolf's pawprint Or.
Frances Carmen von Ermantrodt. Or, a winged roundel counter-ermine between in cross four roses gules, barbed and seeded proper.
Gwendolyn of Caer Cerddinen. Argent, a rowan tree eradicated and fructed proper (Sorbus aucuparia) within a bordure embattled vert.
NOTE: This was passed before, but it did not make it into the Ordinary.
Gwili. Sable, on a fess nebuly argent an increscent, a crescent and a decrescent gules.
NOTE: Passed on 6/26/X but didn't make the armorial. I would prefer that she have a surname.
Kendra Sloane of Penmarch. Vert, three horse's heads conjoined in triskele Or.
NOTE: I have changed the field, as allowed on the submission, to vert to avoid a conflict with Dottin: Gules, three horse's heads erased Or. (Papworth, p. 928.)
Lions Gate, Barony of. Badge. A monster rampant with the body of a lion sable and the head and tail of an alligator argent.
NOTE: This is a lionsgator.
Marchias. Per chevron gules and Or, on a chief azure in canton an annulet Or.
NOTE: Passed on 6/26/X, but it didn't make the armorial. I would prefer a surname.
Margaret of Ashford. Or, on a chevron invected sable, cottised gules, three fir cones Or.
NOTE: Passed on 3/14/VIII, but it didn't make the Armorial.
Meghan Meddyglyn. Vert, a fret argent, overall a pewter tankard proper, within a bordure Or.
NOTE: "Meddyglyn" is the correct spelling of the Welsh word for medicine, not "medclyglin."
Morguesa McKenna. Argent, a heart gules pierced by a sword inverted proper, entwined with a garden rose gules slipped and leaved vert.
NOTE: This is a change from two roses to one rose.
Rhinnia LeClerc. Or, a cat salient fesswise azure, in chief three chevronels inverted braced gules.
NOTE: "LeClercq" is a modern spelling. The period spelling is "LeClerc."
Ritchenda Angharad Elizabeth de Chalfont. Gules, a chevron between two swans naiant respectant and a goblet, all within a bordure indented argent.
Rowena d'Anjou, Badge for House Bel Anjou. On a compass star gules a calla lily proper, stemmed and crossed in saltire by two calla lily leaves Or.
Sebastian von Baden. Argent, riding a horse statant an armored man bearing a shield and pennanted lance palewise and in sinister chief an oak tree eradicated, all sable.
NOTE: I have added the word "riding" to clarify the blazon.
Vladimire ap Gwynne. Badge. Counter-ermine, an eagle displayed argent, armed Or, clutching a wild rose proper (Rosa sylvestre).
Winter's Gate, Shire of. Badge. Per fess indented sable and argent, an estoile throughout counterchanged.
REJECTIONS January 23, 1981 XV
Kingdom of Ansteorra
Aislinn Tara O'Neill. Sable, a tree trunk couped of its branches raguly proper, overall a hind statant argent, both entwined of ivy vines proper.
NOTE: There is insufficient contrast and this is pictorial, not heraldic. This is a non-period style. Tara is the mountain from which the O'Neills ruled Ireland. The combination is too regal.
Alec Ravensquill. Azure, on a bezant radiating four greater and four lesser wavy rays a quill bendwise sinister sable.
NOTE: Conflicts with Wendryn: Azure, a sun in glory Or.
Bordermarch, Barony of. Or, a sinister tierce embattled raguly in chevron inverted argent, fimbriated sable, in dexter a ram's horn proper within a laurel wreath sable.
NOTE: This is not a period line of division, nor was it a period design. Use embattled. The ram's horn does not have sufficient contrast against the Or field.
Burke Kyriell MacDonald. Badge. Argent, a dexter hand couped below the wrist fesswise gules, maintaining a cross crosslet fitchy azure.
NOTE: MacLean has the exact same thing. (Lyon Ordinary II - 03052.)
Cené du Vent. Azure, a chevron inverted abased argent and in chief a mullet of eight points bendwise vert, fimbriated argent.
NOTE: Device OK, but "Cène" means "The Lord's Supper" or "Holy Communion." Document Cené as a different word used as a given name or else choose another.
Cyf Ironhand Hrolfsdottir. Argent, a gauntlet reversed sable grasping three gillyflowers gules, slipped and leaved vert, within a bordure gules.
NOTE: "Cyf" is pronounced K-I-F, not S-I-F. The sound "sif" may not be used as a name, regardless of spelling, as spelling was variable in our period. You cannot use the name of a Norse god or goddess. Ellisif is an acceptable name. (It's a variant of Elizabeth.)
Isolde Dione Euves d'Argent. Or, on a pair of flaunches azure two fleurs-de-lis Or.
NOTE: Conflicts with Lothar of Rothenborg: Or, a sword fracted sable, hilted gules, between two flaunches azure. The feminine form of Dion is Dione.
Leo Exiter the Wanderer. Per chevron argent and azure, a short sword inverted Or, hilted of wood proper, winged at the hilt sable.
NOTE: Device OK. You cannot use a place name as a surname. Do not misspell a place name just for the fun of misspelling it. I would accept Leo of Exeter the Wanderer. While spellings were somewhat variable in our period, this is not one of those cases.
Orm Skjoldbidig. Argent, five scarpes gules.
NOTE: This is a rotation of the arms of Talbot: Argent, five bendlets gules. (Papworth, p. 291.) When a submission is an exact rotation of something else, there is a conflict.
Simonn of Amber. Quarterly gules and argent, a red-tailed hawk's head erased (Buteo jamaicansis) proper between in bend sinister two towers palewise sable.
NOTE: Device OK. You cannot use "of Amber" as a surname, as it implies you are a member of the royal family of the Land of Amber, in the Amber series by Roger Zelazny. You can have Amburg.
Simonn of Amber. Badge. Argent, a mountain proper, charged with a portcullis sable, chased argent, issuant from a base wavy azure charged with two bars wavy argent.
NOTE: You cannot have a mountain proper, as dirt comes in many colors. (We suggest a mountain purpure and a ford azure and Or, so you can have the purple mountain and the amber waves.)
Steppes, Barony of the. Badge for the Order of the Tread(of the Steppes). Argent, a bend indented to chief Or, fimbriated sable.
NOTE: "Tread" as a word for steps is first cited in 1712 and is thus out of period in this meaning. You could call it the Order of the Steppes (OTS).
Kingdom of Atenveldt
Alistar of Myron. Per bend sinister argent and azure, a maunch counterchanged.
NOTE: Device OK, but Myron is a given name, not a place name.
Tamara of Eldaron. Vert, on a fess nowy argent a lozenge gules.
NOTE: The place name means Land of the Eldar, which is not an allowable place name. Choose a different place name. The device is acceptable.
Thorin Christopher of Keystone. Gules, on a keystone issuant from chief azure, fimbriated ermine, above in base an estoile of eight points Or, a griffin segreant argent.
NOTE: You cannot use names of Middle Earth or Norse dwarves. They were not human. The device is acceptable. Choose a different given name.
Kingdom of Atlantia
Dougal MacDougall. Azure, a gull (Morus bassanus) counter-volant proper and a pile wavy enhanced argent.
NOTE: Morus is the genus of a mulberry plant. Give me the common name of your gull and its correct genus and species. Draw the pile four times wider at the base.
Elizabeth of Dendermonde. Azure, on a pale argent a viol proper.
NOTE: Conflicts with Cormac naConnacht: Azure, on a pale argent a sword inverted gules.
Rorik Frederiksson. Alias for Roderick MacFarlane of Glenfiddich.
Second name rejected (Rorik Frederiksson). We only allow one name per person in the College files. You can change this official name, but you cannot register two names.
Kingdom of Caid
Alexander Greylorn. Sable, a dragon segreant, incensed of icy breath, argent.
NOTE: This didn't get in the Heraldicon letter. It conflicts with Dauney: Argent, a dragon rampant sable. (Papworth, p. 980.) The counterchanging is 1/2 point and the breath is 1/2 point. He needs 11/2 points.
Amadeo da Strada Dragonessa. Argent, semé of roses sable, slipped and leaved, barbed and seeded proper, a heart azure.
NOTE: Conflicts with Wybbe: Argent, a heart azure. Try adding a bordure.
Atar Temujin. Azure, in cross rebated a decrescent between four scorpions tergiant displayed argent.
NOTE: This was bounced at Heraldicon for conflicting with Diana de Savigny: Azure, a decrescent with an orle of seven trees argent. "Temujin" was the real name of Genghis Khan.
Celine Yolanda Maysmor. Azure, scaly argent, a sea-horse rampant sable, scaled vert.
NOTE: This never got into the Heraldicon letter. It conflicts with Leif of the Blue Mountains: Ermine, a sea-horse sable, finned, scaled and unguled Or.
Dhéamohn of the Lake that Flames. Azure, a bordure of flame proper.
NOTE: Device OK. The name was rejected by Karina after Heraldicon because the Lake of Fire is found in numerous otherworlds. The use of Dhéamohn is too close to Demon, especially in conjunction with the place name.
Dhéamohn of the Lake that Flames. Badge. Argent, an ellipsoid fesswise azure and in chief a flame of nine points gules.
NOTE: An ellipsoid is not a period charge.
Enyd Draenengles. Or, a unicorn counter-rising, neck embowed, and on a mount sable a point pointed embowed trefoilly vert, fimbriated and charged with a gout Or.
NOTE: Send me a photocopy of p. 104 of Franklyn's Shield and Crest, as I do not have that reference and I will not pass a new position (counter-rising) without documentation.
Eowyn Amberdrake. Badge. Appeal denied.
Charges, monsters, and usages created between the years 1601 and 1966 may not be used under any name or description, as they are out of period. An enfield by any other name is still unacceptable.
Lorraine d'Alsace. Per bend sinister embowed and counter-embowed azure and argent, a domestic cat's head cabossed argent and a Talbot's head couped sable.
NOTE: Device OK. This didn't make the Heraldicon letter. The name conflicts with Alsace-Lorraine. As Lorraine is her mundane given name, she can use it, but she will have to use a different surname. I would prefer she use a different given name as well.
Randolph the Devious. Sable, two wings conjoined in lure inverted per pale Or and argent, thereon a dove's head and a hawk's head conjoined, counterchanged, fimbriated sable, and upon the point of conjunction a heart gules.
NOTE: This didn't make the Heraldicon letter. It conflicts with the badge of the Sufi Order: Two wings conjoined in lure inverted argent charged with a heart gules, thereon in pale a mullet and a crescent Or.
Kingdom of Meridies
Gwynnedd merch Gwynnedd yr Arvon. Sable, a hind salient, environed of five estoiles argent, upon a triple hill vert, in canton a decrescent argent.
NOTE: This was rejected in August 1977 but not sent out in a letter. This is color on color. It is also a landscape. Remove the hillock and the estoiles and it would be much better. ("Ap" means "son of." "Merch" is the correct word.)
Kingdom of the Middle
Earl of Dumnonia. Or, an oak tree eradicated between five mullets, two, two and one, azure.
NOTE: "Earl" cannot be used with a place name, as it implies the title of Earl.
Stanislav of Tartary. Sable, a serpent counter-erect proper.
NOTE: Held for information which was never sent in, namely, the genus and species of the serpent. It is therefore rejected.
Kingdom of the West
Lorayne Gillander. Gules, a bend sinister engrailed argent between on a plate a leopard's head cabossed sable and a compass star argent.
NOTE: Device OK. Please give the source and meaning of the name. Lorraine is a surname, and Lorayne appears to be just a variant. The use of Lorraine as a given name is out of period.
Mirielle Chantelle de Ferrier. Argent, a trident bendwise azure, charged with a Maltese cross gules fimbriated argent, overall a sea-horse erect counter-ermine, crined, all within a bordure azure.
NOTE: The Maltese cross is too small a charge. Remove it. Mireille, Mirelle, and Mirilla are all correct French names, but Mirielle is not. Please pick one of the correct forms.
End of rejections.
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Your servant,
Wilhelm von Schlüssel,
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