ACCEPTANCES January 17, 1982

KINGDOM OF ATENVELDT

Amayot of Aragon. Quarterly ermine and counter-ermine, a cross throughout Or, overall a tree eradicated, the crown bifurcated, proper, pierced by a sword sable.

NOTE: The use of combinations of charges to form a representation of the male organ is very poor taste, although legal.

Anne of Galway. Gules, a sea-griffin erect to sinister argent.

Elliott Arêlluin of Ragatheia. Argent, a crested eagle displayed, head to sinister, in chief a mullet of four points azure within a bordure gules.

NOTE: The Elven word for star is êl, so you must have the circumflex in Arêlluin. Elliott was the one spelling that was not used in period. I suggest you use one of the period forms, if you care about authenticity.

Garth ap Ronan. Quarterly argent and sable, a griffin segreant to sinister gules.

NOTE: Garthr is a Norse in-period name, so Garth is an acceptable translation.

Mathghamhain MacAlpine. Purpure, a pair of wings conjoined in lure bendwise abased argent, in chief three hearts in fess sable, fimbriated argent.

Roslyne of Saxony. Per bend sinister sable and argent, a pithon bendwise vert fimbriated, wings elevated and addorsed argent, incensed of flames proper.

NOTE: The fimbriation isn't needed.

Thorvald Rodericksson. Badge. A mullet of eight points concave voided and interlaced Or.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Aelfgar the Maudlin. Azure, a winged unicorn rampant argent within a bordure sable, fimbriated argent.

NOTE: The wings are elevated and addorsed by default.

Allasondrea de Fano. Azure, a stalk of young wheat leaved Or between two rams salient combattant argent, armed and unguled Or.

Andreas Vallcello. Or, semy of oak leaves vert, on a bend azure three oak leaves Or.

NOTE: Exactly which kind o£ oak leaf they are is a matter for the artist, not the blazon. Heraldically, a leaf proper is always green unless otherwise indicated, in which case you might as well say vert.

Arkein Steinschleifer. Per pale sable and gules, a hedgehog statant within a single-jeweled ring Or.

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Seal for the Clerk Signet of Atlantia. A quill pen surmounted by a unicornate natural sea-horse, the tail entwined about the nib, and in base the words "in nomine coronae."

Baltor Marcsson. Badge. Or, an ermine spot sable enfiled of a salamander biting its tail, head to sinister, gules

Caer Maer, Barony of. Badge for the Order of the Pharos. Gules, atop a grey granite tower a beacon enflamed proper.

NOTE: A pharos is any lighthouse, and is thus not specific enough for use in a blazon. The badge still cants on the name of the order.

Giancarlo Amati di Fogliano. Badge. A purple iris slipped and leaved proper environed of a pair of wood shears Or.

NOTE: SEE REJECTIONS.

Hidden Mountain, Shire of. Sable, a mountain erased voided between in chevron enhanced three clouds fesswise argent and in canton a laurel wreath Or.

Imran Yosuf le Scorpioun. Azure, a scorpion tergiant erect within a bordure argent.

NOTE: SEE REJECTIONS.

Ismael ibn Murad al-ben Mohammed nasil Hakim. Counter-ermine, a roundel engrailed gules within a bordure Or.

NOTE: You cannot give special names to simple charges like a roundel engrailed.

Karl der Kleinefüsse. Sable, on a plate engrailed a torteau.

Layla of Shadowwoods. Per pale argent and sable, a bar dancetty enhanced between an estoille of eight points and a unicorn and a seahorse combattant, all counterchanged.

Maeve of Caernarvon. Badge for Minowara Fujiko. Formerly Maeve Guenhemara Bronwyn merch Gelynen. Name change OK. The shin character "tõ." ("East.")

NOTE: 'There are two r's in Caernarvon.

Merloren the Hermit. Per chevron sable and argent, a chevronel engrailed azure between two oak branches fructed argent and a fox's mask azure.

NOTE: She dropped the druidical symbols she had before (moon and owl). Since she is a woman, this plus the different spelling is now just barely enough difference from Merlin, who was a famous hermit. I would not have allowed a man to have this name.

Myfanwy o'Mwyle ni Cambion. Badge for House de Gael. On a fusil Or another gules charged with a goblet Or.

Stormgate, Shire of. Azure, a gateway between two towers, in chief two lightning bolts in saltire, all within a laurel wreath Or.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Anrhyfeddôd, Canton of. Per fess invected, azure and argent, a snowflake and a laurel wreath counterchanged.

Ardis Bluemantle. Gules, on a pile embattled Or a salamander tergiant erect Or, enflamed gules.

Barak Elandris Hasdrubal. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS

NOTE: He is a member of a household, all of whom share the first two names.

Bergental, Shire of. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

College on the Hill, Canton of. Or, a chevron gules between two brown bears salient combattant proper and a laurel wreath vert. (Ursus arctus)

Cordelie du Fleure. Vert, a bend sinister counter-ermine surmounted by a wingless dragon segreant Or, incensed of flames proper.

NOTE: Flames proper on vert are Or on the outside and gules on the inside. Fleure is masculine and so takes du, not de la.

David Morgan of Clai'omh Morgan. Sable, a saltire gules fimbriated within a bordure Or.

Note: the proper Irish grammatical form is clai'omh , not clai, which means dike or fence. Draw the bordure wider.

Drachenwald, Principality of. Or, three pine trees gules, overall a dragon passant, all within a laurel wreath sable.

Edmund Falconmere. Vert, a tower and on a bordure argent a tressure vert.

Estrildis ferch Rhys. Or, three fountains in pale between two flaunches sable.

Judá the Many Named. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

Geoffrey Geometre. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

Kormakr Ulfshofuth. Sable, on a cross moline nowy quadrate between in saltire four daggers points to center Or a delf gules charged with a wolf's head erased close Or.

Lucasta della Canzona Transalpina. Badge for House Broken, Pean, a cracked portal gules and a chief Or in saltire a lightning bolt surmounting a rolled scroll gules.

Nithgaard, Shire of. Per fess embattled argent and sable, in chief a ruined tower sable within a laurel wreath vert and in base a barbless rose gules, fimbriated Or, between three thistle heads argent.

Shawna Kerr of Devonshire. Per pale argent and vert, a chevron engrailed-invected counterchanged surmounted by a seahorse erect Or.

NOTE: Whether the feet are hooved or webbed is a matter for the scribe. It's still a sea horse.

Tamara la Gracieuse de Tours. Quarterly azure and argent, in bend sinister two sprigs of forget-me-nots palewise proper. (Myosotis syovatica)

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Alfred of Chester. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

Bridei nic Gillechattan. Vert, a unicorn and a domestic cat salient combattant argent.

Cedric the Bold. Ermine, a bend sinister gules surmounted by a dove martletted Or.

Christian Roguespur. Name approval only.	SEE REJECTIONS.

Ellen the Fair. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

NOTE: Fair is an adjective, while faire is an event.

Eluned merch Gwynt. Argent, a pine tree proper issuant from a mount vert, and on a chief azure a moon in her complement.

NOTE: Like a plate, a moon in her complement is argent by default unless otherwise specified, just as a sun in splendor is Or by default. If you wanted a moon in her complement within a bordure, both azure, then you would have to say a moon in her complement azure within a bordure azure. If you look in the Ordinary, you will see that the suns in splendor or in glory that are Or do not have the Or specified (e.g., the sun in the Atenveldt arms).

Erowyne of the Silver Arrow. Sable, a strawberry proper.

NOTE: This is essentially color on color and, as such, lacks contrast. It is allowed by the rules, but is a very bad practice.

Fenix, March of the. Name approval only (see REJECTIONS for device).

Francis of the Silver Quill. Azure, a quill and on a chief argent a dove displayed affronty azure.

Gregria Marie Norton Delacroix. Per chevron azure and argent, on a pale counterchanged in base a Latin cross argent.

NOTE: We do not register maiden names.

Helene Gabrielle du Lac. Per pale azure and gules, in cross a spoon and a needle Or, overall an Indian elephant's head close couped to sinister trumpeting proper.

Mara haTsevah shel Tsel. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

Rafe Edelstein. Gyronny of six argent and azure, a pall surmounted by a pall inverted counterchanged charged with a mullet of six points fesswise gyronny of six azure and argent, within a bordure gules.

NOTE: The pall surmounted by a pall inverted and counterchanged creates a mullet of six points fesswise of the field from the overlapping lines. To blend this in, one must place a counterchanged mullet of six points fesswise on them to cover the area of intersection.

Rashid al-Rashidwn ibn Yaakov b'Hup b'l Salaam. Per bend sinister, sable and argent a mullet of seven points counterchanged.

Sonya Panek of Prague. Vert, on a pale argent between two acorns Or an oak sprig vert.

Steven Blackmoon. Gules, on a bend argent between two bezants three decrescents palewise sable.

Treegirtsea, Province of. Argent, on a pale azure between two apple trees eradicated fructed proper in chief a laurel wreath Or.

Yaroslav Ruriksson. Counter-ermine, a rose gules, barbed and seeded, surmounted by a sword inverted proper.

Skraeling Althing, Canton of. Per chevron argent and gules, in pale a laurel wreath vert and a hare salient to sinister argent.

KINGDOM OF CAID

Elgil Mirdil of Dor-Mallos. Badge for House Drachenstern. Per pale nebuly Or and sable, a dragon segreant to sinister sable and in pale three mullets of seven points argent.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Bjorn Berserk of A'Bakki. Per bend wavy azure and argent, a bear rampant and an axe bendwise inverted counterchanged.

Catriona Gillander. Reblazon. Azure, a cross couped in chief between in chief a panther passant guardant argent incensed proper and in base an increscent and a decrescent, all argent.

NOTE: A tau cross has concave arms. A cross couped in chief has straight arms and thus looks like the capital letter T.

Cliveden de Cheux. Per pale sable and gules, in pale two Catherine wheels Or.

Christianna Eyvindsdottir. Gules, a bend per bend counter-ermine and ermine between two penannular brooches bendwise Or.

Dionysia die Reisende. Name approval only. SEE REJECTIONS.

Egill von Stahl. Device change. Per fess rayonny gules and argent, and eagle's head erased proper and a two-towered castle sable, masoned argent.

NOTE: Previous arms become badge.

Evan MacGowan. Vert, issuant from a cross (couped in chief) argent a demi-sun throughout Or, and in base two shamrocks argent.

NOTE: See re: tau cross on Catriona Gillander, West.

Galin Gray of York. Quarterly gules and sable, in pale a unicorn statant contourné and a griffin passant argent, overall a mullet of four points throughout Or.

Geoffrey of Griffinhold. Badge. Per pale vert and azure, a griffin Or and a unicorn argent, armed and crined Or, rampant addorsed, the tails entwined, the unicorn gorged of a belt collar gules.

Jeffrey Broken Blade. Azure, on a chevron between three anchors argent a sword fracted reversed sable, hilted Or.

NOTE: Jeffrey, with a J, is his mundane name.

Käthe Willig von Mainz. Badge. A pennon kite wavy vert, armed and orbed argent, langued gules, gorged of three bands Or, thrice tailed azure, gules and azure, sticked and stringed proper.

Käthe Willig von Mainz. Badge for Honeyfur. Azure, goutty Or, on a plate an urn azure.

Käthe Willig von Mainz. Badge for George Philip von Gafia. Paly bendy purpure and argent crusily vert.

Käthe Willig von Mainz. Badge for Karl von Gafia. Or, on a bend cotised azure a ribbon Or, within a bordure azure.

Maeve ferch Morgan. Sable, a unicorn couchant reguardant to sinister, in canton an estoile, all within a bordure argent.

NOTE: Maeve is the correct spelling. Mayve is not a period form.

Michael Hugh Stuart. Sable, a claymore inverted between five annulets, two, two and one, Or.

NOTE: Stuart is a clan name, not a place name. You therefore do not use of Stuarts, but instead just say Stuart. (Willowen of Stuarts was an error that got past us.)

Roger of Belden Abbey. Azure, a two-headed dragon passant respectant Or, turbanned argent, gorged of a collar gules, pendant therefrom a bell argent, in base a bumblebee displayed erect proper.

NOTE: The Redundant Roger is a nickname which should not be part of the formal name, so I have omitted it.

Totenwald, Shire of. Argent, on a pile purpure in chief a laurel wreath Or, overall a tree stump eradicated proper.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Titles of Estoile Pursuivant and Peregrine Pursuivant.

Wilhelm von Westfalen. Azure, a mullet of seven points Or within six swords conjoined in annulo proper, all within a bordure argent mullety of seven points azure.

William of Woodland.

NOTE: The submission passed in October was actually a badge. His previous device is still his device.

Wolf Weissfeder. Or, a bar gemel enhanced gules between a quill fesswise reversed and three goutes azure.

NOTE: In German, a compound word with a noun and an adjective has the adjective before the noun. In a compound with two nouns (such as the examples in your documentation (Federangel, etc.)), the Feder could come first. If you want Feder as the occupational name and Weiss as a surname, then it would be Wolf Weiss Feder. Under no circumstances would Federweiss be correct.

REJECTIONS January 18, 1982

KINGDOM OF ATENVELDT

Camelen Melentar. Per pale indented purpure and argent, in fess three mullets of eight points in pale Or and a cat sejant guardant sable.

NOTE: Name rejected. Camelen is correct, but Melentar is not. Tar- is the royal prefix of the Numenorian kings. I do not find melen at all. Mel means love in Sindarin, but entar or en doesn't exist. The device seems acceptable.

Thorvald Rodericksson. Per fess, per saltire gules and sable, and sable, in chief two lightning flashes in saltire throughout argent, at fess point a bezant engrailed.

NOTE: Device rejected. The use of this type of field leaves it with the lower red triangle adjoining the sable lower half of the field, which lacks contrast. This device is not period heraldic style. I suggest: Per saltire gules and sable, two lightning flashes in saltire throughout argent, overall a bezant engrailed Or.

KINGDOM OF ATLANTIA

Demere Ochenstaff. Sable, a pile inverted bendwise concave argent surmounted in dexter chief by a roundel gules and in bend enhanced three muliets and a crescent argent.

NOTE: Name rejected. Demere is an occupational surname, not a given name. Better to use Oakenstaff or Eichenstab. The red roundel is mostly on the black field, and so is color on color. The placement of the mullets and crescent in bend enhanced with nothing to balance them on the other side of the pile is not period style.

Giancarlo Amati di Fogliano. Badge for House Amati. A purple iris slipped and leaved proper environed of a pair of wood shears Or.

NOTE: Household name rejected. The Amati were one of the principal artisan families of Cremona, second in fame only to the Stradivarii. While you can be of the family, you are not the head of the family, and so cannot use House Amati.

Imran Yosuf le Scorpioun. Badge. Azure, a scorpion tergiant erect argent.

NOTE: Conflicts with the device of Allyn O'Dubhda: Purpure, a scorpion tergiant erect argent.

Marek Sapieca Waly Jagalonski. Argent, a javelin within the arms of a recurved bow palewise disjointed and enhanced and on a point engrailed all azure, two bars invected to base argent.

NOTE: The bow is not recognizable as such. The base is not period style. Better would be a complete bow and a base barry engrailed azure and argent. This is also too similar to Nicholas Abbas de l'Eau Vivante: Argent, a crozier and a base barry wavy azure and argent. (It was left off of the September letter.)

Trey of Bedford. Sable, a lion rampant to sinister reguardant between in bend two crosses potent palewise, all within a bordure embattled Or.

NOTE: Name rejected. Document the use of numbers as given names in England in period. It occurred in Rome, but you aren't using a Roman name. The device seems acceptable.

KINGDOM OF THE EAST

Barak Elandris Hasdrubal. Argent, a Roman galley rigged and sailed proper, attacked and maintained by a giant squid bendwise gules, maintaining in one tentacle in chief a lightning bolt palewise Or fimbriated sable.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is not period heraldic style. You could have: Argent, in pale a Roman galley, rigged and sailed, proper and a giant squid erect inverted gules. This is proper style, and you could consider the giant squid to be rising to attack. Beware of conflict with Echlin: Argent, a galley proper.

Bergental, Shire of. Sable, a mullet of six points within a laurel wreath 0r.

NOTE: Device rejected. Arms conflict with the Barony of Hammerhold: Sable, a hammer Or entwined with kudzu vine proper within a laurel wreath Or. Close also to De Penhurst: Sable, a mullet Or (Papworth).

Geoffrey Geometre. Argent, a tree blasted sable bearing three mascles (2 and 1) gules, azure, and vert within a bordure vert; overall on a chief triangular truncated gules, a bluejay rising proper bearing broken shackles argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. It is too complicated. The chief atop the bordure is out of period. A chief triangular truncated doesn't exist. That's a keystone issuant from chief. Using different-colored mascles as Christmas tree ornaments is a modern concept. Start over. You could have a bluejay sitting in a tree, meaning that the tree is the bird's home. Thus you have jay-home-tree. A canting device should be kept simple.

Juda' the Many-Named. Sable, a bear passant erect grasping a sword in dexter forepaw argent. NOTE: Device conflicts with Alan Silverbear: Sable, in base a polar bear statant proper. Close to Mylles: Sable, a bear erect, chained and muzzled, Or (Papworth).

Marten von Krieger of Vineback. Argent, a bend between a serpent coiled and in bend three swords palewise inverted, hilts voided, sable.

NOTE: Name rejected. You can't have two place names. If you want to be Marten the Warrior, then it should be Marten Krieger of Vineback. Marten Krieger von Vineback would also be fine, as would Marten von Krieger or Marten of Vineback. The device seems acceptable.

Myrddin Llygoden of Llareggub. Azure, in pale an oak tree eradicated argent and a mouse courant proper. ( Mus musculus)

NOTE: Rejected. Document the place name Llareggub. It looks like Bugger-all spelled backwards. The device conflicts with Müller: Azure, an oak tree eradicated argent (Rietstap).

KINGDOM OF THE MIDDLE

Alfred of Chester. Azure, a chevron between three Maltese crosses Or.

NOTE: Conflicts with Angot: Azure, a chevron between two Maltese crosses Or and an escallop argent (Rietstap) and all of the families in Papworth having Azure, a chevron between three crosses (of any kind) Or. Too bad, because it is very nice heraldry. (Does the Middle Kingdom College of Heralds have a copy of Papworth?)

Christian Roguespur. Sable, a chief triangular gules, overall on a pall Or three spears conjoined at the points sable.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is color on color. If you made the dexter side counter-ermine and the sinister side pean, then you could have: Tierced per pall gules, counter-ermine, and pean, on a pall Or three spears conjoined at the points sable. You cannot have per pall gules, sable and sable.

Ellen the Fair. Vert, a left shoe print inverted between in fess two left shoe prints Or, and a chief indented argent.

NOTE: Device rejected. Human footprints were, to my knowledge, not used in period. Try using actual left feet (a triskelion of left legs?). N.B.: Shoes were not footed in period.

Erowyne of the Silver Arrow. Badge for House of the Silver Arrow. Purpure, on a bend sinister purpure fimbriated between a strawberry and a strawberry blossom an arrow inverted argent.

NOTE: Badge rejected. This was left off the Middle LoI. Resubmit it so the College can comment on it.

Fenix, March of the. Sable, a phoenix of flames statant, wings elevated and addorsed, issuant from flames, and in canton a laurel wreath proper.

NOTE: Arms rejected. Your phoenix is non-standard. A laurel wreath proper is vert and, when placed on sable, breaks the color-on-color rule through lack of contrast. A phoenix heraldically is an eagle displayed arising out of a nest of flames. Flames proper on sable would have Or on the outside and gules on the inside, so that tincture would not be violated. Your drawing has gules on sable. This is very close to Kelly the Reaver: Sable, a rainbow debruised by a phoenix of flames rising proper.

Lorraine des Champignons. Ermine, in pall inverted three mushrooms, stems to center, Or.

NOTE: Name rejected. Lorraine is a surname, not a given name. Again, try Lorena. The device still seems acceptable.

Mara ha Tsevah shel Tsel. Sable, three bendlets dancetty plaited argent.

NOTE: This conflicts with Berford: Sable, a bend mascilly argent (Papworth, 197). Try changing the field to purpure.

KINGDOM OF THE WEST

Brendan Shimmering Star. Badge. Sable, chapé ployé argent mullety sable, a mullet of six points elongated to base Or.

NOTE: The badge seems acceptable, but the name is still unacceptable. Try Brendan of the Shimmering Star or Brendan. Shimmerstar. The use of two words of the form Shimmering Star is not period form. Submitting a device and a badge with a Society name known to be unacceptable is a waste of the College's time.

Dionysia die Reisende. Azure, fretty Or, a bay horse courant proper.

NOTE: Device conflicts with Cursey: Azure, fretty Or (Papworth, p. 882). I suggest making it a saltire tripartite and fretted, plus the horse courant proper.

Friends of St. Clare of Assisi, Order of the. Azure, two needles in saltire surmounted by another palewise Or between in cross four thimbles, domes to center, argent, within a bordure Or.

NOTE: Name rejected. It conflicts with the Second Order of St. Francis of Assisi, known as the Poor Clares, which was founded by St. Clare of Assisi. The badge seems acceptable. As this is not a household, it may register under its own name, unless the Order is a personal order of Annora. (Incidentally, there should be two W's - in Shadowwood.)

Sebastian von Baden. Badge. A hawk displayed upon a lozenge checky Or and vert between a pair of basilisks, each devouring a hurt, their feathers dimidiated with an acorn, fimbriated stemmed and capped counter-compony.

NOTE: Badge rejected. "Your blazon is impossible," was our response. It's so complex the College did reject it at the nonce. It breaks the rules of heraldry, it seems you just can't win. Besides, the badge you ask for is in conflict with Baldwin. He has a dove displayed upon a billet checky Or and gules, between a pair of cockatrices clad in motley like a fool's; their feathers are dimidiated, with a tree eradicated, limbed and fructed counter-compony, Seriously, the badge we registered to Baldwin was a special exception to the rules. Like the arms of Jerusalem, its violation of the rules was part of its special nature. It was as close as the College could come to granting an augmentation. You have not earned the honor, and your attempt to plagiarize his idea is in very bad taste, in addition to being inadmissible.

END OF REJECTIONS