March 22, 1983 A.S. XVII

ACCEPTANCES

Kingdom of An Tir

*An Tir. (Kingdom of) (Badge for the Order of the Goutte de Sang) Checky Or and argent, a goutte de sang.

*An Tir. (Kingdom of) (Badge for the Order of the Jambe de Lion) Checky or and argent, a lion's jambe bendwise inverted erased sable.

Aquaterra. (Shire of) (name approval only)

Cedric Helmcleaver. Argent, a bend vert, overall a Norman helm sable cleaved by an axe fesswise reversed gules.
NOTE: While you can specify the style of helm, such specification provides no difference for the purposes of conflicts.
Elizabeth de Fleury. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*Elonda Blue Haven.Azure, seme of lightning flashes bendwise sinister Or, a sinister hand fesswise argent maintaining in its palm a flame proper.

Evan y Helfarch ap Llewellyn. Erminois, on a pale gules in chief two bird blunts in saltire surmounted by an arrow inverted Or, a base counterchanged.
NOTE: The correct spelling is Helfarch.
Gwilym Moore. (name approval only)

*Madrone. (Barony of) (Badge for the Champion of Arts) Argent, semé of leaves vert, a Madrone tree eradicated, its trunk forming the column of a harp, gules, leaved vert.
NOTE: These leaves are too small to specify what kind of leaf they are. That's a matter for the artist. Given the Madrone tree, everyone will assume they are Madrone leaves anyway.
*Madrone. (Barony of) (Badge for the Champion of Sciences) Argent, semé of leaves vert, a Madrone tree eradicated gules, leaved vert, between the limbs of a pair of calipers sable.

*Madrone. (Barony of) (Badge for the Champion of Martial Arts) Argent, semé of leaves vert, in pale in chevron a sword inverted grasped by a dexter cubit arm armored sable and a Madrone tree eradicated gules, leaved vert.

*Madrone. (Barony of) (Badge for the Madrone Minstrels' Guild) Gules, on a pile argent between in base a transverse flute and a recorder in saltire and a lute bendwise sinister Or a Madrone tree eradicated gules, leaved vert.

Mark der Gaukler. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*Nether Edge. (Shire of the)Per chevron sable and gules, an owl argent perched on and within a laurel wreath Or.

*Rowen O'Ceallachain of Muscraidhe. (Badge for House Panthera) Sable, a natural panther rampant Or between in fess two mullets of eight points argent, within a bordure ermine.

Ragnar the Bold. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Rurik the Reluctant.Per bend sinister sable and argent, a natural panther rampant within a bordure embattled all counterchanged.

Sigrun Magnusdottir. Argent, a red fox sejant to sinister reguardant proper. (Vulpes vulgaris)

*Thomas Lackland of Appledore. (badge) Argent, on a portcullis purpure an apple slipped and leaved Or.

Yvonne Elizabeth Leyster. Gyronny ermine and Or, in pale a demi-annulet of chain vert surmounted by a rose gules, barbed and seeded proper, the chains conjoined in annulo to the leaves of a thistle purpure, slipped and leaved vert.
NOTE: This isn't really period style, but it is close enough to allow as a discouraged class.

Kingdom of Ansteorra

*Johann von Graustein. (reblazon) Per bend sinister vert and Or, a bend sinister embattled gules between a fox statant reguardant argent and a tower sable.

Simonn of Amber Isle.Quarterly gules and argent, in bend sinister a hawk's head erased proper between two towers sable. (Spitzaetus ornatus)

Kingdom of Atenveldt

*Aldred Colson. (name change; formerly Aldanar Halrim)

*Aleen du Varnay. (Badge for Nightwalk Tower) Argent, a ruined tower on a mount within a bordure, all sable.
NOTE: Draw the ruined tower so that it is clearer that it is in fact a tower.
*Anne of Junius. (Badge for Musicians' Guild of Loch Salann/Apprentice) Gules, a rebec Or.
NOTE: A rebec and a viol are different enough in shape to be different charges.
*Anne of Junius. (Badge for Musicians' Guild of Loch Salann/Journeyman) Gules, a rebec within a bordure Or.

*Anne of Junius. (Badge for Musicians' Guild of Loch Salann/Master) Gules, a rebec within a bordure embattled Or.

Antara of Andar.Per pale argent and sable, in chief a cartouche fesswise voided and issuant from base flames counterchanged.

*Arwyn Lassarina ni Mhaolghaoithe. (name change; formerly Arwyn Lyriel)
NOTE: The word ni (nic) always aspirates a following word that begins with a consonant.
Carl of Wiltshire. Azure, a siege tower Or, a chief embattled argent.

Chirhart Blackstar. Quarterly sable and gules, a cross argent, on a chief ermine a mullet sable.

Dragan Volkov. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Edward the Learned. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Galen the Harper. Per chevron counter-ermine and gules, a dragon couchant, wings elevated and addorsed, tail coward and erect, in dexter chief an Irish harp Or.
NOTE: This would be much better if it were balanced by the addition of a second harp in sinister chief. A winged dun dragon is just a dragon, since the only real distinguishing characteristic of a dun dragon was that it was wingless.

Harold Thredar. Quarterly Or and vert, on a bend sinister argent between a dog's head couped and a tyger's head couped sable, three billets palewise gules.
NOTE: The type of dog's head is a matter for the artist. This would be better style if the billets were bendwise sinister.
Ilryc of the Wastelands. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*James Darkstar. (blazon correction) Azure, mullety, on a pile throughout or a compass star elongated to base throughout sable.

Jonathan Ivey de la Montagne.Sable, in pale a bow and a sword in saltire and a point pointed argent.

Kirklin MacIan. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*Lucie de Villebruyant Boniface. (Badge for Otherhill Drama Guild) Per fess indented gules and sable, in chief five mullets in chevron and in base a sphere argent.
NOTE: Draw the sphere correctly. The latitude lines should all be horizontal, not curved. As drawn, you not only have north and south poles, but east and west poles as well.
Michael the Strange. Sable, on a bell vair ancient a bat displayed gules.

*Mikhail Andreyevich Putnikov.Vert, a bend sinister between a bear passant and a lion rampant to sinister Or.
NOTE: Amber of Oakden gives permission.

Patrick the Lost .(name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Rebekah of Lizard's Nest.Per pale sable and argent, a rose counterchanged, seeded purpure, barbed vert, between two lizards tergiant displayed in annulo clockwise or and azure.
NOTE: The addition of two charges of different colors gives a major and a minor point of difference.
Robert de Fletcher the Duelist. Or, a fess embattled counter-embattled gules between two arrows inverted in saltire sable and a pine tree vert.

Kingdom of Atlantia

*Adelicia of Cumbria.Sable, four swords in saltire conjoined at the points proper, overall five mullets in cross argent.

Aislinn Schattenwald. Argent, on a pile inverted throughout azure between in chief two hearts gules a sword Or.

*Deadra Colin Madoc. (Badge) (name change; formerly Deadra Colin Cristant Madoc of Caer Mear) An axe argent, hafted sable, entwined of a rose stalked and leaved argent.

Garrett of Kilborne. Vert, a spearhead Or and a chief dovetailed argent.
NOTE: Draw a few more dovetails so the chief won't look like a label.
Jean de Faucon. (Badge) (see REJECTIONS for device) Azure, a cross surmounted by a saltire, both within and conjoined to a mascle Or.

Jessica ua Brian. Purpure, a pale ermine between four suns in splendour Or.

Luciana Francesca. Per pale ermine and azure, in chief two escallops within a bordure counterchanged.
NOTE: Luciania is not a valid variant of Lucian, so I have corrected it to Luciana. The LoI had "of Hindscroft," but that was nowhere on the forms. If there is a conflict between the forms and the LoI with no explanation given for the conflict, then the forms shall prevail over the LoI. Those preparing LoIs should check to be sure that the entries on all of the forms match what is on the LoI. Any differences should be explained on the forms. (See Administrative Guidelines, III.D.4.)
Margaret Campbell. (name only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Raymel Notchblade. Azure, in pale two double-bitted azes in fess conjoined at the handles surmounted by another palewise, the sinister edge notched, proper and a tower Or.
NOTE: The protheme"Ray-" is English and thus the English/Anglo-Saxon deuterotheme "-mel" should be used, instead of a hypothetical German "-mul," especially because "-mul" and "-mel" are pronounced very differently in German. I have therefore changed the given name to Raymel. The device would be much better with four axes in cross.
*Sacred Stone. (Barony of the) (Order of the Sacred Stone; name approval only)

*St. Michael's Keep. (Canton of)Per pale vert and argent, a tower, a laurel wreath, and on a base wavy two bars wavy counterchanged.

Susan Douglas of Andover. Sable, a pegasus rampant to sinister argent, and a chief indented azure, fimbriated, semé of compass stars argent.
NOTE: Fimbriating a chief, while legal in the SCA, is poor practice and should be discouraged. It was never done in period, because in Europe chiefs were additions to the arms and could violate the Rule of Tincture, so fimbriation was unnecessary. We have required chiefs to satisfy the Rule of Tincture, so in order to have an azure chief on a sable field in the SCA it is necessary to fimbriate it. It would be much better if this chief were argent with azure compass stars so that fimbriation would not be needed at all. That would also provide better contrast.

*Tear-Sea's Shore. (Canton of) (reblazon) Azure, a dexter flaunch Or and a sinister flaunch, in chief a wave erased argent, overall a laurel wreath vert.
NOTE: This wave was previously passed. Waves are no longer acceptable charges in the SCA.
*Tristan ap Howell. (Badge) Sable, a bone fesswise surmounted by two bones in saltire between in pale two hearts argent.

William de Montegilt. (Badge) Sable, a serpent erect reguardant Or.
NOTE: Draw the serpent as a correct heraldic serpent. As drawn, it is too skinny to be seen well and is still reminiscent of a sperm.

Kingdom of Caid

Aldred von Lechsend aus Froscllheim . (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)
NOTE: The use of two place names in this manner appears to be a usage of the German nobility. I have therefore changed und to aus so that Froschheim is the place name and von Lechsend becomes the surname.

*Armand de Sevigny. (Badge) Gules, a lion's gamb palewise erased, within a bordure Or.
NOTE: The claws are tiny details not needed in the blazon.

*Astra Christiana Benedict.Per fess azure and purpure, a fess argent between in chief a mullet between three mullets one and two, and in base a cross crosslet between three crosses couped Or.
NOTE: This is rather busy. The old arms was much better.
*Astra Christiana Benedict. (reblazon of old arms; becomes a badge) Per fess azure and purpure, a fess argent between a mullet and a cross crosslet Or.

*Branwyn fer' Corran. (badge); Argent, a phoenix gules rising from flames proper, in chief a mullet of four points sable, all within an orle gules.
NOTE: Alternate name rejected. Carissa is out of period as a name. It was a term of extreme endearment. You could use Clarissa.

*Caid. (Kingdom of) (Title for Sable Fret Pursuivant)

Dubhessa MacLochlainn. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Eideann de Blenkinsopp. Azure, a bend lozengy argent between a heart gules, fimbriated, and an annulet argent.

*Felinah Tifarah Arnuella Memo Hazara. (name change; formerly Felinah Memo Hazara) Per bend sinister raguly vert and Or, an eagle's head erased and a threaded drop spindle bendwise sinister counterchanged.
NOTE: The word Khan was banned by Karina because it is a Mongol title. I have therefore deleted Khan-Adin. Please choose another Arabic word for house or lnn. (Her old arms becomes a badge.)

Justin de Courteney. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*Keradawc an Cai. (Badge) Sable, three scimitars in annulo argent.

*Miscell of Lyonesse. (Badge for Drakeshalle) Per saltire argent and vert, a duck volant sable.

Morgause of Anderia. Per saltire gules and lozengy gules and Or, in chief a unicorn rampant argent.
NOTE: Draw more lozenges in the lozengy so that it will be clearer just what is going on.
*Stephanie of Oultre-Mer. Per pale savy Or and azure, two horse’s heads couped addorsed between a chief and a base, all counterchanged.

*Wilihelm Heimirich von Donnerkeil. (Badge for Rhydderch of the Far Reaches) Per pale gules and sable, a chevron rompu inverted and in chief a pheon Or.

Kingdom of the East

Alain de Velencourt . Azure, six swords fretted and a chief argent, semé-de-lys sable.

Alasdair Stuart Campbell. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)
NOTE: Please tell him about the Stuart-Campbell feud.
Andre Louis de Vincennes. (name approval only)
NOTE: Hyphenated names are out of period, so I dropped the hyphen.
*Black Fist, Legion of the. (badge) Or, pendent from a sinister fist fesswise erased a purse sable.

Brigitte von Eisenburg. (name approval only)

*Carillon. (Shire) (Order of the Sable Bell; name approval only)

Charles d'Hautvoix. (name approval only)

Damiano de Catania . (name approval only)

Drachensheim. (Shire of) (name approval only)

*Drachenwald. (Principality of) (Order of the Marguerite; name approval only)
NOTE: Marguerite is the flower, while Margarite is the old name meaning pearl. The Order of the Marguerite does not conflict with the Order of the Pearl.
*East. (Kingdom of the) (Badge for Order of Sagittarius) Azure, a sagittary passant to sinister, the human torso turned to dexter, Or.

*East. (Kingdom of the) (Title for Jellinge Herald)

Geoffrey of Turtle Towers. (name approval only)

*Michaele del Vaga. (name correction; formerly Michaele de la Vaga)

Rhedereck Einsamjäger . Argent, in bend a peregrine falcon's head to sinister erased sable and a broken fern leaf bendwise sinister vert.
NOTE: Einsamjäger needs the umlaut.
*Settmour Swamp. (Barony of) (Order of the Silver Tower; name approval only)

Stephen Locksley . (name approval only)
NOTE: Locksley is an existing mundane surname and thus cannot be reserved in the SCA, but Stephen cannot register a House Locksley. Stephen is advised, as a matter of courtesy) to contact Master Ioseph of Locksley to work out persona relationships (long-lost cousin, etc.).
Thomas Montgomery. Azure, a sword inverted bendwise sinister enflamed proper between two Latin crosses argent.
NOTE: The flames should extend both to chief and to base.

Kingdom of Meridies

Ana Dimitriev of Plumley. Purpure, on a cartouche throughout or a peacock close reguardant proper.
NOTE: I have changed the surname as instructed by a letter from her. (She wanted a Russian surname and Varinka was a given-name diminutive.) As her persona is that of a daughter of a Russian immigrant to England, the English practice of using the unaltered surname is followed.
Anne of Benetlea . (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Bruce Cwilliam Alexander. Per pale sable and argent, a quill bendwise sinister within a bordure counterchanged.

*Caitlin MacDonnell. (badge for Clan Eachmara) Gules, a demi-sea-horse erased erect Or gorged of thistles slipped and leaved proper.
NOTE: The Scots Gaelic word for seahorse is "Each-uisge" (Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Highland Society of Scotland, Vol. VI, p. 757). Your form is OK, but you might want to use the actual word normally used.
Camilla Seawood of Torpoint. Argent, scaly azure, a bend sinister engrailed vert.
NOTE: Draw the bend sinister bigger.
*Cathal MacEdan na Faeled. (badge) Gules, two keys inverted in saltire or, overall a fess checky argent and sable.
NOTE: An SCA badge must have a major point of difference from normal mundane arms and a major and a minor point from such important mundane arms as arms of countries and states. The inversion of the keys and the addition of a fess provides sufficient difference from France's Department of Vaucluse, and from the attributed arms of St. Peter.
Constance Aveline Merrifield. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

*Fuiltigherne ni Ruadh O'Finn. (badge) (see REJECTIONS for device) Vert, semé of estoiles Or, a female wolf rampant argent, collared and chained Or.
NOTE: Name appeal accepted. Your name actually means you are the daughter of Ruadh, the grandson of Finn. Draw the estoiles bigger.
*Giovanni Clarenza. (badge for La Casa del Cigno) Argent, a swan naiant affronty sable within a bordure embattled purpure.

*Iron Mountain. (Barony of) Gules, on a pale argent a battle-axe reversed sable, overall a laurel wreath vert.
NOTE: Draw the leaves bigger. This wouldbe much better if the wreath were counterchanged argent and vert. While the wreath overall is legal, it has poor contrast.
Lawrence of Ashana. Sable, two swords in saltire proper surmounted by a barrel helm argent within a bordure embattled Or.
NOTE: Lawrence lives on Ashana Street.
Marion du Rouge. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)
NOTE: Your name actually translates as Marion of the Blush (Blushing Marion). If you want to use a father's nickname (Red) as a surname, then a proper form would be Marion Rufus or Marion Rovel.
*Robert Hightower of Meridies. (badge for House Black Willow) Checky argent and vert, a willow tree blasted eradicated sable.
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*Vanora of Kintyre. (badge for Household Moonrime) (name change; formerly Vanora of Dalriada)

Kingdom of the Middle

Geoffrey de Bellac.Azure, a chevron or surmounted by a natural dolphin fesswise argent and on a chief or three mascles azure.

Gheronda Gwyneth of the Dark Lake. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Gwyntarian. (March of)Azure, two bars wavy argent, overall a laurel wreath vert, a chief nebuly argent.
NOTE: The nebuly line must be drawn so as to be very visible in order to avoid having the field appear to be barry wavy.
Ilisabetta d'Ostia.Argent, a mullet of eight points azure within a bordure pean.
NOTE: You do not use the definite article with the name Ostia, so "of Ostia" is properly "d'Ostia."
Isolde de la Ramee. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Jonathan Bluerose. Argent, a chevron inverted between a rose azure, barbed and seeded proper, and two candles azure enflamed gules.
NOTE: Hyphenation of names is not period, so I have removed the hyphen.
Lydia Lofthouse of Tresco. Purpure, a chevron inverted or, overall a griffin sejant to sinister argent maintaining in its forepaws a pot sable enflamed gules.
NOTE: The griffin is drawn in trian aspect. Turn it entirely to sinister.
Margaret of Heathermere.Or, on a pale between two flaunches vert, each charged with a plate, three escallops argent.
NOTE: Separate the pale from the flaunches.
Marina Petrovna Orlova. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Myfanwy o'r Pelydrau ar Ysgall. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)
NOTE: I have corrected the spelling as advised by Mistress Eriod.
Michael MacNaughton of Loch Ness. (Badge for the Brotherhood of the Stalking Tiger) Gyronny of six raguly sable and argent, a Bengal tiger’s head caboshed proper.

* Middle (Kingdom of the) (badge for the Order of the Queen’s Favour) Azure, a sword proper enfiled of a wreath of flowers argent, slipped and leaved vert.

Pieter of the High Hills. Per pale gules and argent, in bend sinister a mullet of six points between two mullets of twelve points within a bordure counterchanged.
NOTE: Draw the charges bigger and in proper bend sinister orientation.
Quendryth Verty of Lofthouse. Purpure, a chevron inverted between three wyverns passant within a bordure Or, crusily patty sable.

Raven Marches. (Shire of the)Per chevron Or and sable, in pale a raven rising sable and a laurel wreath argent.
NOTE: Draw the division higher.
Renard des Terres Hautes. Per chevron argent and vert, a red fox passant reguardant proper and on a chief sable a decrescent between two estoiles argent. (Vulpes vulgaris)

Richard Ironforger. (badge) Gules, a pale argent surmounted by a mill-rind sable.

Kingdom of the West

*Brandon d’Arindel. (badge) A male griffin segreant argent.

Dianne of Winchelsea. Per bend argent and azure, a Maltese cross within a bordure counterchanged.
NOTE: Beautiful heraldry.
Eric Edmundsson. Sable, three barley stalks in fess or and on a chief argent three hop leaves inverted vert.

*Garin de Gramercy. (badge) Argent, vêtu ployé, a fret azure.
NOTE: The field must be specified for a field treatment to be used, as you cannot just tincture only part of the field. We have had for some time a rule against the use on a fieldless badge of any charge throughout, as the shape and extent of the charge is thus unspecified without a field shape specified. I have therefore specified the field to be argent so as to be able to register the badge. The only other possibility was Or. If you would prefer or, let me know and I'll change it. Please note that, in period, fieldless badges made use of free-standing charges, such as a portcullis or a rose. Any ordinary so used was couped.

Howard of Redstone. Argent, a mug sable charged with a sword or, within an annulet within a bordure gules.
NOTE: Howard is his mundane given name. (That should have been on the LoI.)
Howard of Redstone. (badge) Argent, on a mug sable a sword Or within a bordure gules.

James Gael MacTire. Sable, a sword inverted Or surmounted by a dove displayed tergiant argent within a bordure Or.
NOTE: Bordures cannot be arched, so I have changed this to a normal bordure. Duke Radnor gives permission. (That should have been on the LoI.)
Kathrine of Bristol. (name approval only; see REJECTIONS for device)

Morberie of Tor Denly. Argent, a Crequier plant azure.


*Richard of Seahaven. (badge) On an inescutcheon a gore charged with an ermine spot.

*Ronald Wilmot. (emblazon correction) Checky sable and gules, a fleur-de-lys between three African leopards rampant Or.
NOTE: Draw the charges bigger. This is a grandfather-clause exception to the current ban on checky of two colors.
*Sine ni Mharbhen. (badge) Sable, a drop-spindle within a bordure Or.

Suzanne l'Écuyère. (name approval only)
NOTE: Name appeal accepted. Suzanne agreed to drop Etoile at the end of the name. The device is still not period heraldic style, which would have a horse's head couped sable on a complete sun or compass star. Having a head emerge from the field this way wasn't done.

*Tarysa of Rivendell (blazon correction) Vert, on a bend argent three poinsettias gules, barbed vert.
NOTE: Poinsettias can be either red or white and so the color must be specified.
*William Thespos Dragonsclaw (name change; formerly Giraldus Dragonsclaw) (badge) Sable, a triangle argent between five apples slipped in annulo Or.

END OF ACCEPTANCES

REJECTIONS

Kingdom of An Tir

Elizabeth de Fleury. Azure, fretty, on a fess invected argent three forget-me-nots azure.
NOTE: Device rejected. This conflicts with Cavernell: Azure, fretty, a fess argent (Papworth, p. 702). The line of partition on the fess is not visible, given the fretty, so it provides no difference. Try changing one of the tinctures.
Mark der Gaukler. Sable, a wingless dragon passant gules enflamed argent.
NOTE: The device still conflicts with Caroline of Waldland: Sable, a Chinese dragon passant gules, orbed and armed argent, spined, bellied and fimbriated Or, in chief a butterfly Or- At best the flames give one point. A Chinese dragon is a wingless dragon and so the difference is basically artistic style. The small butterfly is worth only a minor point.
Ragnar the Bold. Gyronny Or and sable, a roundel counterchanged within a bordure azure.
NOTE: This con-flicts with Alexander Campbell: Gyronny Or and sable, a bordure azure (Balfour-Paul, p. 124). Counterchanging the roundel makes it effectively part of the field. Given the fame of the arms of the Campbells, I feel that this is a definite conflict, and the exception for adding a main charge does not apply.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Aleen du Varnay. (badge for Ishiyama Munashii O-Kiyo Kimiko no Takeda) Azure, a bar bevilled arrondi between in bend two clouds all within a bordure argent.
NOTE: Alternate name and mon rejected. According to Monsho, your alternate name violates period Japanese naming practice of having just a family name followed by a given name. The mon is incorrect style by Japanese standards, as a stream has three lines, not one, and a cloud is not a Japanese charge.
Dragan Volkov. Per chevron Or and argent, two towers sable, each charged with a sword inverted argent, and an enfield passant to sinister guardant proper.
NOTE: Enfields cannot be proper, as they are imaginary monsters. Only real plants and animals and those objects (e.g., swords) that have agreed-upon default coloration can be termed proper.
Edward the LearnedGules, on an open book Or a battle-axe bendwise sable.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Amaulry: Gules, an open book Or (Rietstaap).
Ilryc of the Wastelands . Gules, on a plate a double rose sable barbed gules.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Edwin Bersark: Gules, a plate.
Kirklin MacIan. Per saltire Or and argent, a fret parted and fretted azure, overall a double tressure gules.
NOTE: Device rejected. While the field and each charge are separately legal, although discouraged, the combinations of a field with poor contrast with all of those small lines produces a device of excessive complexity that is not consistent with period heraldic style. Use a normal fret azure (not voided) and it will be acceptable, assuming it doesn't conflict.
Patrick the Lost . Quarterly sable and gules, a mushroom argent enfiled in base of a dragon dormant and in chief an estoile of eight points Or.
NOTE: Device rejected. This is modern cartoon style rather than period heraldic style. Redraw the device with the dragon in a standard heraldic dormant position beneath the mushroom and blazon the mushroom argent, since off-white counts as argent.

Kingdom of Atlantia

Dante di Amore. Vert, on an open scroll argent a heart gules.
NOTE: Name and device rejected. The combination of the name and the device produces too close an allusion to the famous poet Dante Alighieri, known in period for his love poetry (known to us via The Divine Comedy). Please add a surname to difference the name. The device conflicts with the arms of the Egham Urban District Council: Vert, on a scroll the crown of King John proper (Briggs, p. 150).
Elaina de Sinistre . Sable, on a bend sinister argent an apple gules slipped and leaved proper.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Sulmetingen: Sable, a bend sinister argent (Woodward, p. 134), and with Maeve MacGowan: Sable, a bend sinister argent, overall an ass rampant gules.
Jean de Faucon. Azure, a chevron between two falcons rising and a cross surmounted by a saltire, both conjoined to the chevronel, Or.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Windibank of Hains: Azure, a chevron between three falcons volant Or, and Johnson: Azure, a chevron between three eagles rising Or (Papworth, p. 396). The device is also too complex and misuses diminutives of ordinaries.
Margaret Campbell . Azure, semé of churchbells Or.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Bell: Azure, three bells Or (Papworth, p. 181), and is very close to Boytone: Azure, semé of escallops Or (Papworth, p. 684).
Storvik. (Barony of) (badge for Company of the Silver Silkie) Azure, semé irregularly of wave-crests, a lion-headed silkie haurient and a side engrailed argent.
NOTE: Badge rejected. Wave crests are not acceptable charges. A side does not extend from sinister chief to the base point but instead is a vertical line. A silkie in myth is a were-seal. It never had a lion's head. In the SCA, the silkie is defined as a charge to be a seal with the head and shoulders of a man. A field semé of charges must be regularly patterned with those charges.
Turin Ulfsson . Sable, in pale a dragon volant to sinister and an estoile, within a double tressure argent.
NOTE: Name rejected. Turin is the name of a famous city (re. the Shroud of Turin). A name of a mundane place may only be used as a given name if it can be proved that that particular place name was used as a given name in the mundane world in period. The device seems acceptable.

Kingdom of Caid

Aldred von Lechsend aus Froschheim. Sable, on a hexagon Or, a leopard frog sejant affronty proper. (Rana pipiens)
NOTE: Device conflicts with La Rana: Vert, on a cushion Or a frog sejant affronty vert crowned Or.
Caid. (Kingdom of) (Sable Oak Pursuivant)
NOTE: This conflicts with Black Oak Pursuivant in the Society for the Restoration of Logres.
Dubhessa MacLochlainn. Per chevron inverted or and vert, a unicorn passant to sinister and on a chief vert a pale Or.
NOTE: Device rejected. This is not period heraldic style. It looks like a sign for "Down with Unicorns." Use a pheon.
Fionna Ramsay of Bronwyn Vale. The block letters H and B conjunct in fess.
NOTE: Badge rejected. This conflicts with the identical badge of the Hofbrau Brewing Company in Munich.
Justin de Courteney. Vert, a pall inverted between a chalice, a harp, and two swords in saltire Or.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Geoffrey d'Ayr: Vert, a pall inverted between two crosses of Cleves Or and a sword proper.
Maegyn aes Dana. Purpure, a demi-horse couped invected argent, bridled purpure, and in sinister chief a mullet of four points argent.
NOTE: Name rejected. We need the documen-tation on the period use of "aes Dana." The mythical demi-gods, the Tuatha de Danaan, were "People of the Goddess Danu" (or Dana). The aos-dana in Scotland, according to Jean Fitz Roye, were a class of bards specializing in recitations of ancient poetry and were the Celtic approximations of a priest-prophet-king, rather than simply scholars. If such is the case, then aes Dana would actually be a title and thus not allowed. The couped invected is poor practice. It would be better to use erased. The device would be better with two mullets in chief, as that would have better balance and symmetry.

Reinhardt Dietlieb von Vogelsang.Sable, on an inescutcheon argent a cross patty sable, issuant to chief from the inescutcheon two eagle's heads argent.
NOTE: Device rejected. This is still an inescutcheon of pretense of Dorothea of Caer Myrddin's arms, in this case with a crest of two eagle's heads tacked on. Mistress Dorothea objects. If you use a chief of a different color and do not have the heads issuant from the field, then you will not longer have an inescutcheon of pretense. Mistress Dorothea prefers that you change the color of the cross.
Shandon Yar Mohamed Gehazi Memo Hazara Khan-adin. Per bend sinister raguly sable and Or, a mullet of six greater and six lesser points and a naginata counterchanged.
NOTE: Name rejected. Shandon is an English surname. Please document it as an Arabic given name. The word Khan was banned by Mistress Karina years ago. The naginata is not drawn correctly. The mullet should be drawn in a more normal heraldic manner. Please choose a different Arabic word for house than Khan, which is a Mongol title equivalent to King.

Kingdom of the East

Alasdair Stuart Campbell.Per bend sinister Or and sable, in dexter chief a sun between in fess two lightning flashes palewise and in base a roundel between in pale two lightning flashes fesswise counterchanged.
NOTE: This is not period style and is overly complex. Delete the lightning flashes, which are out of period anyway. Having a per bend division means that long charges should be bendwise or bendwise sinister.
Anastasia Vanessara iz Chernigova.
NOTE: Name rejected. This name violates Russian naming practices. The Russians only had one given name, so Vanessara should be dropped, especially since Vanessa itself is out of period, having been coined by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). The preposition "iz" takes the nominative, so your name should be Anastasia iz Chernigov. You could also use Anastasia Chernigovska.

Dorian Galbraith. Azure, a pile inverted bendwise Or between two mullets of four points elongated palewise and conjoined in canton to another argent.
NOTE: Name and device rejected. Dorian was created by Oscar Wilde and is thus out of period. The device is not period heraldic style, and it conflicts with Rosemary of Talmont: Azure, a rosemary wreath proper between three mullets of six points argent.

Kingdom of Meridies

Aedward of Glastonbury. (badge for House of the Withered Vine) Gules, a sinister gauntlet palewise Or grasping a wilted sprig of kudzu sable, fimbriated Or.
NOTE: Badge rejected. Heraldically, all flowerless vines are just blazoned as vines, as they all look pretty much alike (especially when they are wilted). A complex a charge to fimbriate. Try using a withered vine Or.
Anne of Benetlea. Azure, a saltire gyronny of sixteen Or and gules, in chief a butterfly Or.
NOTE: Device rejected. This is too complex. The limit for charges gyronny is gyronny of eight.
Constance Aveline Merrifield.Quarterly vert and azure semé of lilies of the valley argent, slipped and leaved vert, a lamp argent enflamed Or.
NOTE: Device rejected. The device has insufficient contrast. The tiny lilies are virtually invisible on the azure quarters, especially the vert stalks and leaves. Having only two quarters semé makes the device look like quartered arms. Quarterly vert and azure is a poor idea, as they are hard to distinguish.

Fuiltigherne ni Ruadh O'Finn. Per pale vert and vair, an estoile Or.
NOTE: The device conflicts with Duffin: Azure, an estoile Or (Papworth, p. 694).
Glaedenfeld. (Shire of) Per pale argent and vert, a laurel wreath counterchanged and a chief per pale vert semé--de-lys Or and argent, overall a sword inverted throughout Or.
NOTE: Arms rejected. Surmounting a chief is not period heraldry and may not be heraldic even today. No charge should surmount a chief, wholly or partially, in SCA heraldry. Lower the sword below the chief. Having half of the chief semé is unbalanced and very odd -looking. I suggest having the chief seme-de-lys counterchanged, or else have one fleur-de-lys Or on the vert and one vert on the argent.
Marion du Rouge.Gules, a pale argent, three doves migrant palewise voided counterchanged.
NOTE: Device rejected. Voiding animals is no longer allowed, as it produces excessively complex voiding. In this case, the result looks more like mushrooms voided than birds voided. Beware of conflicting with any mundane arms of Gules, a pale argent.
Roland Martel.
NOTE: Name rejected. Martel as an epithet is as bound to Charles Martel as Coeur de Lion is to Richard. Roland was the great-grand-nephew (by some accounts) of Charles Martel, so the combination is too allusive to the family. Martel as a surname did exist, so please add a sobriquet or place name (the Baker, of London) to indicate that Martel is used as a surname and not as Charles' epithet.
Solondra Carryl. (badge) Sable, a heart argent.
NOTE: Badge conflicts with the 820 U.S. XXIV Corps badge, which was a heart. This was borne with different colors on different-colored flags and uniforms and thus argent on sable was likely to have been used exactly.

Kingdom of the Middle

Alen Elegil. Ermine, on a pale azure a mullet of six points elongated to base argent.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Reader: Ermine, on a pale azure a leopard's face argent (Papworth, p. 1006). I suggest you use a line of division on the pale.
Grocklig Glavekeeper. Vert, a chevron rompu between three glaves argent hafted proper.
NOTE: Grocklig is not an acceptable made-up name. It is not consistent with period naming practices, as it does not make use of any name roots we could find. The device would be much better if the glaves were entirely argent, as brown on green has poor contrast.
Gheronda Gwyneth of the Dark Lake . Per fess engrailed argent and sable, a lightning flash bendwise sinister counter-changed.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Carolyne Amaris of Castle Thunder: Per fess embattled azure and Or, a lightning flash bendwise sinister throughout counterchanged.
Gwendaline Adrea nic Faelan. Purpure, a wolf, head raised, sejant upon the lower arm of an increscent argent.
NOTE: Name and device rejected. The Gaelic name structure has the patronymic before the place name. Thus, if you want to be of Adria, you would be Gwendaline nic Fhaolan o Adria. Note that nic aspirates the F in Faolan, which is the correct spelling (not Faelan). The device is not period style, being entirely modern.
Isolde de la Ramee. Or, three dandelion leaves conjoined, one palewise and two fesswise addorsed, vert, the chief leaf charged with a dandelion stalked and seed ball Or.
NOTE: Device conflicts with Josquin du Bois Vert: Or, a dogwood blossom argent upon a whorl of three of its leaves vert.
Jaromir Bjarnrud. Barry wavy of four gules, Or, azure, and sable, a sector argent.
NOTE: Device rejected. You cannot have a field barry of four of multiple colors like this. If the bottom section were argent or Or, instead of sable, it would work.
Kosulya Bronzovwi Kuznyets .
NOTE: Name rejected. The structure of Russian names is 1) given name, 2) patro-nymic, 3) family surname. Bronzovwi is not a patronymic. Kosulya has a feminine ending as does not appear to be a given name at all. Kuznyets is a word that means smith. Russian surnames are taken from the given name of the founder of the family. For example, Dmitri Petrovich Grigorov would be Dmitri, son of Pyotr, descendant of Grigory. Thank you for including the Cyrillic version of the name. It really helps.
Marina Petrovna Orlova. Or, a double eagle displayed sable maintaining in dexter talon a mullet of eight points and in sinister talon a fleur-de-lys gules, on a chief sable three straw-berries gules, slipped vert.
NOTE: Device rejected. The arms of the Holy Roman Emperor are: Or, a double-eagle displayed sable. This emblem in these colors may not be used in the SCA at all. Those charges that are termed proper that can be blazoned in heraldic tinctures will be treated as if they were so blazoned for the purposes of contrast and the Rule of Tincture. The straw-berries are thus color on color.
Middle. (Kingdom of the) (badge for the Order of the Silver Oak) Purpure, an oak tree blasted eradicated argent, fructed Or.
NOTE: The name conflicts with the Order of the White Oak of the Barony Beyond the Mountains in the East. There is also the Order of the Oak of the Barony of the Steppes. The badge seems acceptable.
Myfanwy otr Pelydrau ar Ysgall. Gyronny of four from dexter chief Or and argent, a triple-headed thistle purpure, slipped and leaved vert.
NOTE: Device rejected. You cannot have gyronny of four from a point along the edge of the shield that is of two colors or two metals. The device conflicts with Megan of Thistledowns: Barry azure and argent, counter-changed per saltire, a Scottish thistle slipped and leaved proper. Beware of Annette of Faire Monte: Or, three thistles in fess slipped and leaved proper conjoined at their base and enflamed gules.

Nikolai Luborovich Orlov . Per pale Or and sable, in chief an eagle displayed maintaining in both talons a mullet of eight points counterchanged.
NOTE: Name and device rejected. Please send us a photocopy of the page dealing with Luborovich. The device conflicts with Hinzmann of Hallmann: Per pale Or and sable, an eagle counter-changed (Rietstaap).

Rosarius Daegred . Per fess argent and sable, on a roundel gules a lamp reversed enflamed Or.
NOTE: Rosarius was used as a pseudonym, but was not a real name. you could use it as a second name, but it is not a given name. Daegred seems unlikely as an Anglo--Saxon byname, especially in combination with Rosarius. The device is similar to the arms of the University of Ithra: Gules, on a sun or eclipsed gules an Arabian lamp flammant Or.

Kingdom of the West

Kathrine of Bristol . Sable, a cat sejant guardant, dexter forepaw raised, and in chief two spools of thread each pierced by a needle bendwise sinister Or.
NOTE: Device rejected. That type of machined spool is out of period. Try a spindle or card or bobbin.
Max Todt. (badge) Azure, a cross of nine annulets interlaced within on a bordure Or an orle of chain azure.
NOTE: Name rejected. Max is out of period and is also a diminutive. I question the use of Death as a period surname. Please document. The badge is somewhat busy, but probably legal.
END OF REJECTIONS

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