THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE APPROVED:

Kingdom of An Tir

Adrian Blackfire. Name only.

Aedrik Thorulfsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device.)

Arther Bargate of Land's End. Name and device. Gyronny gules and azure, a lion's head cabossed Or within a bordure argent.

Berengaria of Lincoln. Name and device. Azure, five mullets in bend sinister between a decrescent and an increscent, all argent.

Bernard di Forano. Name and device. Per bend sinister vert and argent, three escallops, two and one, Or and two palmer staves in saltire sable.

Although the spelling on the letter of intent was Foruno, the paperwork and supporting documentation had Forano so we used this spelling.

Bridget O Fearghail. Name and device. Per chevron azure and chevronelly argent and azure, a stag's head erased and affronty Or, environed in chief by three compass stars in fess argent.

Cheryl av Hastenholm. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Although this was not mentioned on the letter of intent, "hasten" is the proper plural form so the place name means "Isle of the Horses".

Colin MacKay of Balmaghie. Device. Azure, on a saltire bretessed argent, five hearts palewise gules, all within a bordure Or.

Crisiant ferch Eirian. Device. Per fess sable and argent, a pale counterchanged, overall a bagwyn rampant guardant gules.

Daimon Isamu. Name and device. Argent, two axes, blades to center, between their handles, two single Japanese arrow notches in saltire, all gules.

Documentation for the arrow notch as charge was presented from Hawley's Mon: The Japanese Family Crest. According to this volume, the "yahaza", translated as arrow notch, in either a single or doubled form, appears in a number of mon. Thus it can be demonstrated as a standard heraldic charge in the Japanese tradition.

Dak Ulfreddson. Change of device. Pean, a goat's head erased and in canton a crown Or.

Although this was not mentioned on the letter of intent, he is of comital rank and therefore entitled to display the crown on his arms. As no disposition for his former arms ("Pean, a bend sinister azure fimbriated Or and overall a goat's head erased Or.") was stated in the letter of intent, they are hereby released.

Deirdri of the Mist. Device. Argent, a luna moth proper between a decrescent, an increscent and a crescent, all vert. (Actias luna linnaeus)

The Luna Moth is primarily green with markings of other tinctures. Note that the letter of intent had her name as Deirdri of the Mists, her forms had Dierdre of the Mists and her actual registered name is Deirdri of the Mist!

Duncan of Lancaster. Name only.

Everild of Bloreheath. Name and device. Argent, a mermaid affronty proper, crined sable, tailed vert, armed with a sword and shield gules, and in chief three sprigs of heather purpure.

Blore Heath was the site of a battle in 1459 where the Yorkists under Surrey defeated the Lancastrians under Audley. Please ask the submittor to draw the heather blossoms more identifiably: more than one person mistook them for ostrich plumes before reading the blazon!

Geoffrey Geometer. Badge for Freehold Turris Nimborum. Barry wavy argent and azure, a tower issuant from base sable.

Hrolf the Silent. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Laurus Mercator. Name only.

Mairi Morag MacLeoid of Loch na hIolaire. Device. Sable, flames of fire proper issuant from the top of a tower between two swords in fess, all within a bordure argent.

Note that this is the registered form of her name, not the form given on her forms and the letter of intent.

Margaret Drysllwyn of Dunroth. Name and device. Per pale erminois and pean, two lions passant counterpassant counterchanged sable and Or within a bordure embattled gules.

The name Dunroth was given as a manufactured place name from dun, meaning "brown", and roth, meaning "field" with no language specified. As "dun" in this meaning is English and roth for field appears nowhere in the OED, there is a problem with this. However, the name is a valid Scots/Irish formation since "dun" means fort and "roth" in both Old Irish and modern Gaelic means "wheel" so that Dunroth could be a place name meaning "fort of the wheel".

Nest of Kelynwyk. Name only.

We have used the placename spelling on her forms, which is properly constructed from Cornish forms, rather than the spelling on the letter of intent ("Kelynwyck").

Orielle de Honfleur. Name and device. Ermine, a saltire azure, overall a legless oriole displayed, wings inverted, head to sinister, gules.

Note that, although in modern French the name Honfleur drops the sound of the initial "H" and therefore loses the "e" of the preposition ("d'Honfleur"), in medieval French that sound could be retained for "de Honfleur". The bird is not a martlet for it not only lacks the typical leg tufts but also does not have a swallow tail.

Otho of Berwick. Name only.

Since the language of the preposition and the place name indicate an intent to form an English name, we have used the nominative form of Otho rather than the submitted form of "Othon". The documentation provided was a caption labelled "Seal of Othon de Grandison". Apparently, the person who did the translations for this books looked at the seal inscription of "Sigillum Othonis de Grandissono" and did not realize that merely removing the genitive ending of "is" would not give her the proper nominative form. As far as we can tell, all the forms spelled in "Othon" are drawn directly or indirectly from German sources by translators who were not aware of the fact that the Germans generally draw the German form of a name from a Latin source from the accusative form.

Pegasus Devona. Name and device. Gules, a pegasus rampant to sinister within a bordure argent.

Robin de Montvert. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

We have modified the submitted place name "Vertmont" to the proper French form of "Montvert ".

Rollo Brasenose. Name only.

Sven Grimleif of the Barren Ice. Name only.

We have modified the "Grimlief" of the letter of intent to the proper anglicized form of the Old Norse "Grimleifr".

Theodoric Tobin. Name and device. Vert, a bend gules, fimbriated argent, overall a mulberry leaf Or.

Three Mountains, Barony of. Order of the Crystal Rainbow. Badge. Per fess indented of three, in chief a rainbow proper.

Thorkell Kane. Name only.

No support could be found for the submitted spelling of the given name ("Tjorkill") so we have used the "Thorkell" given in the submittor's documentation. Also, we have modified the family name to the anglicized Irish "Kane" (from "O Cathain") as the submittor's documentation indicated was his intent.

Ulf Magnusson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Wilhelm von Ulm. Name only.

Wulfgar Ironwolf. Name only.

Wulhere the Capacious. Name and device. Per pale ermine and counter­ermine, a sword palewise inverted gules between two eagles passant close respectant counterchanged sable and argent.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Alisane o'r Mynyddoed Taranllyd. Name only.

We have corrected the submitted form of "Alisane o y Taranllyd Mynyddoed" to the proper Welsh word order and syntax.

Eileen of the March. Name and device. Vert, a bend wavy between a hare rampant to sinister and three tufts of cattails, all argent.

"Marsch", the spelling used in the submitted name, is German. We have used the English form to pass the name, but she may prefer the German form of von der Marsch" if she wishes to preserve the spelling of her mundane name ("Marsch").

Fracis Strider Shieldbane. Name and device. Argent, a pall between a raven close sable and two lozenges gules, all within a bordure sable.

There was general agreement that, given the renown of both the Hesse novel Steppenwolf (in which the title character appears to have been a werewolf) and the rock group, the epithet "Steppenwolf" was "too much".

Genevieve nic an Cheannai. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

We have changed the form Genevieve the Merchant's Daughter" into Irish as Aten (and the submittor) requested.

Jocelyn of Fairfax. Badge for Clan Thistlecaern (see RETURNS for personal name change). Argent, a cairn of stones sable between three thistles, slipped and leaved, proper.

Mons Tonitrus, March of. Name and device. Argent, in chief a laurel wreath vert between a pile in bend and another in bend sinister and in base three chevronels braced, all sable.

Nimriel of the Far Wind. Device. Quarterly argent and sable, a mullet of twelve points between twelve cinquefoils in annulo within a bordure, all counterchanged.

Note that her registered name (and the name given on her submission forms) is "of the Far Wind", not "of the Far Winds" as it appeared on the letter of intent.

Kingdom of Atlantia

Arlis Behrendsdohtor. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Since the given name Behrend is a period German form of the given name Bernard, we have changed the "Behrendsdatter" of the submitted patronymic to a German form.

Corwin Wealdboren. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

We have modified the submitted byname "Borenweald" to the proper Old English word order.

Eowyn ferch Rhys. Name and device. Quarterly azure and vert, on a cross nowed Or, a swan naiant sable, all within a bordure Or.

Her name was submitted as "Eowyn merch Glyndywr ap Rhys ap Tewdur". Unfortunately, "merch" mutates to "ferch" in this context. "Glyndywr" is not a given name (which would be used with a patronymic particle) but a misspelling of the place name "Glyndwr" associated with Owain Glyndwr. In view of the close similarity in sound between Eowyn and Owen, we felt that the use of Glyndwr here was inappropriate. Also, it has previously been determined that the family name "Tudor" is inappropriate for use in the Society.

Jonathan Ryder. Device. Tierced per pall sable, Or and gules, mulletty Or, in chief two A frame plumblines in fess counterchanged.

Please ask the submittor to draw the mullets a bit larger!

Karl von Quirnbach. Name only.

Martha the Well­Loved. Name and device. Per fess argent and Or, a fess wavy azure between a seagull migrant to chief and a mullet sable.

Sacred Stone, Barony of the. Order of the Phoenix's Claw. Name only (see RETURNS for badge).

Sacred Stone, Barony of the. Order of the Phoenix's Eye. Name only (see RETURNS for badge).

Sacred Stone, Barony of the. Order of the Sacred Stone. Badge. Argent, in pale a phoenix and a dolmen vert.

Note that the name of this order was registered in March, 1983.

Stephen Haroldsson. Device. Argent, a pile azure and a chevron counterchanged within a bordure gules charged with three dragons passant deasil argent.

William Geoffrey. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kingdom of Caid

Adelaide de Beaumont. Badge. In pale three chevronels couped, braced and inverted and three chevronels, couped and braced, all azure.

Alessandra Ippolita di Montefiori. Device. Per chevron sable, goutte d'Or, and Or, in base a raven passant close sable, bearing in its beak a pimpernel gules, slipped and leaved vert.

Bjorn of Hoting. Name and device. Azure, a galley and in chief three mullets of four points, one and two, within a bordure embattled argent.

A galley is an oar­driven ship and therefore must be drawn with oar­ports visible, even if the oars are not in action.

Caid, Kingdom of. Title for Aurum Pursuivant.

David of Granada. Name and device. Or, a pomegranate bendwise sinister inverted gules between two bars gemels azure.

Please ask him to draw the bars a bit wider.

Elspeth O'Connor of Kerry. Name only.

Since the form "Connor" is the anglicized form of the Irish Conchobar, the Irish feminine patronymic "ni" appeared inappropriate in an otherwise totally anglicized name so we have used the usual anglicized form of the family name:"O'Connor".

Eowyn Amberdrake. Badge. A griffin and an enfield combattant per fess gules and sable, armed Or.

At this time, the badge "Azure, a dragon sejant erect to sinister and an enfield rampant proper" is released.

Leopold der Erforscher. Name and device. Per fess embattled Or and azure, in pale two eagle's legs, each couped and perched upon a sword fesswise, all counterchanged.

Mela de Prion. Device. Vert, a pair of wings conjoined Or and in chief a swan naiant argent.

Michael Stadtler Zweihanderer. Name and device. Azure, a lion sejant Or between in fess two swords palewise argent, all within a bordure embattled Or.

Since he clearly wants to be someone who uses a two­handed weapon rather than to be the weapon itself, we have modified the byname to the proper German form.

Morgan of the Gray Mists. Device. Sable, on a triangle throughout between three crosses couped Or, a tree proper.

Note that the triangle throughout is rather poor style.

Nicholas FitzBaldwin. Name only.

Philippe Lyon de Marseilles. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

We have corrected the spellings of "Phillips" and "Marsailles" to the proper French forms as the submittor's paperwork allowed.

Rebekah Billaur of the Rain Winds. Name and device. Azure, a Saluki bitch salient argent and on a chief Or three escallops azure.

Wilihelm Roderick FitzLovel. Badge. On a mullet of sixteen points voided, a lion rampant Or.

Kingdom of the East

Dorren of Ashwell. Blazon Correction. Per pale sable and argent, a theatrical mask, comic to dexter, tragic to sinister, counterchanged and on a chief indented per pale argent and purpure, a chain of five mascles conjoined.

Farasha Joralemon. Device. Argent, a butterfly purpure and on a chief purpure, mulletty, a crescent argent.

Kingdom of Meridies

Alanna Fiona Swinton. Name only.

Alvina of Blackshear. Name only.

Amalia Silvia. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The name was submitted as "Amalia Silvana". Several commentors noted that a "Silvana" was a Roman wood goddess and therefore the use of this epithet could be interpreted as a claim to non­human origin. Therefore, we have used the well­documented period epithet "Silvia" which has the meaning "of the woods" which she indicated she desired.

Annora Maria Teresa Rossini. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Aveline of Valognes. Name and device. Azure, in pale a chevron enhanced argent and a sun in splendour, all within a bordure invected Or.

Cathal MacEdan na Faelad. Badge. Quarterly gules and sable, on a fess Or a griffin dormant gules.

Dedric of Gower. Name and device. Vert, a bend purpure, fimbriated, overall an oak leaf inverted argent.

Please draw the fimbriation wider.

Diego Diaz de Toledo. Name only.

Joscelyn Sinclair. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Katrin McPherson of Silverdiamond. Name only.

Kenneth Meriedoc Olafsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

The form of the middle name used here was demonstrated to be in use as a form of Murdoch in 1160.

Kira Ashford. Name and device. Argent, on a pale between two seahorses gules, a sword Or, all within a bordure sable.

Michelle O'Domhnallain. Holding name and device. Quarterly purpure and Or, a dragon segreant counterchanged.

Since no documentation could be found for the proposed given name "Liadrachen", we have used her mundane name for a holding name. Perhaps she would like to use the similar period Irish feminine names Liadan or Ligach?

Oriana Winterbourne. Badge. Vert, a demi­pegasus Or within a bordure Or, semy of lozenges vert.

Stephen Wolfe. Name only.

Timothy of Edessa. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Tomas mac Torcail an Sligeach. Name and device. Per chevron argent and purpure, two crosses pommy fitchy gules and a trefoil slipped argent.

The formation "an Sligeach" is correct since "Sligeach" is an adjective formed with the common adjective suffix "ach" used here as a substantive, i.e., as "the Sligo man".

William Read of Alnwick. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kingdom of the Middle

Alexe de la Larme. Name and device. Per pale, a bend between two gouttes, all counterchanged.

Cordelia Elvera de Barfleur. Name and device. Per pale Or and purpure, a demi­eagle, wings expanded, counterchanged issuant from a base rayonne gules.

Note that this cannot be a phoenix since there are no flames (though the base is reminiscent of flames).

Duncan MacEwan. Name and device. Per chevron sable and Or, two pegasi Or, winged argent and incensed gules, and a tree vert.

Evan Starseeker. Name and device. Sable, a lion rampant guardant Or, winged of flames proper, in base three compass stars in fess, all within a bordure engrailed Or.

Finella Genevieve Fionnbharr. Name and device. Per bend sinister ermine and sable, a bend sinister counterchanged and in sinister base a goblet Or.

Francoise Follet Accard de Nevers. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Francoise Katze. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Geoffrey de la Mer. Name and device. Or, a galley, oars in action, sable, sails furled, within an orle invected and voided, on a chief gules a griffin passant Or.

Gerhardt von Drachenkralleberg. Name and device. Per chevron gules and Or, in base a dragon's gamb bendwise erased sable.

We have corrected the place name to the proper German form.

Grazia Geralda Loviza de Navarra. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Margaret von dem Schwartzwald. Name and device. Purpure, on a pale between in chief two mullets of six points argent, in pale a fir tree sable and a mullet of six points purpure.

This was submitted with the given name "Gretchen". Since Master Baldwin has ruled that Gretchen is not usable in the Society because it is a diminutive of Margaret which does not seem to have been used independently in period (May, 1986), we have changed the given name to Margaret.

Helmut of Greenland. Badge only (see RETURNS for household name). Two armorer's hammers conjoined in pale, heads outward, proper, overall an ivy vine fesswise vert.

Hugo von Moltke. Name and device. Per pale Or and azure, a maple leaf within a bordure counterchanged.

Johann Wolfgang von dem Goldenherz. Name and device. Azure, a chevron inverted Or between a stag's head cabossed argent and two hearts, all within a bordure Or.

Since Goldenherz (Golden heart) is an attribute rather than a place name, we have added the necessary article ("dem").

Juliana Fairfax. Name and device. Vert, a swan naiant argent and on a chief Or, a Latin cross couped sable, enflamed gules, between two harps sable.

Kjarvala Thorvaldsdottir. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Though the letter of intent had the patronymic spelled Thorvaldsdotter, the forms had the correct spelling in "­dottir".

Lucian Starwind. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Minna von Lubeck. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Morgause de Tarascon. Name and device. Per pale purpure and argent, two horse's heads couped addorsed and a fleur­de­lys, all counterchanged.

Ragnarr Arnbjornsson. Name and device. Argent, masoned, two axes in pile, blades outward, sable and on a chief triangular azure, a dove migrant to chief argent.

Richenda Lenoir. Name and device. Or, two pegasi combattant sable, maintaining between them a lyre gules.

Since the submitted given name ("Richardyne") appears to have existed in period only as a diminutive of Richenda, we have substituted the primary form of the given name.

Robert de Tyr. Name and device. Per fess embattled abased sable and argent, masoned sable, a sword inverted counterchanged proper and sable, in chief three compass stars, one and two, argent.

We have used the French name for the city of Tyre in order to agree with the language of the remainder of the name. The submittor should be requested to draw the stars larger.

Shadowed Stars, Shire of. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Stefania di Roma. Name and device. Per saltire purpure and argent, a mullet counterchanged between two cinquefoils, slipped and leaved, purpure.

We have changed the preposition to "di" (from "de") since the submittor indicated she wished the name to be Italian.

Stuart Osric de Becquet. Device. Per pale gules and argent, two boars rampant combattant counterchanged within a bordure Or.

This would be ever so much nicer if the bordure were counterchanged as well!

Susan Odell. Name and device. Azure, ermined, two flaunches Or, each charged with a quatrefoil azure.

Thorhalla Karlsdottir Broberg. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Since the primary language of the name was clearly Old Norse, we modified the given name "Carl" in the patronymic to the Norse form "Karl".

Thorkarl Wulfheresson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Thorvald Hrafnsson. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Thrain Broberg. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Wulf Feuerschmied von Bern. Name and device. Per bend rayonny Or and gules, a wolf salient sable and an anvil Or.

It was the consensus of the commentors that it was not period German naming practice to insert the epithet "der Wanderer" before the occupational family name Feuerschmied (the German translation of his mundane name) when there was also a geographical place of origin.

Zenon of Gray Tower. Name and device. Azure, mulletty argent, a unicornate natural seahorse Or within a bordure argent.

Note that the given name is a direct transliteration of the Greek original, not a version derived by English or German scholars by way of Latin.

Kingdom of the West

Arthur Lemner of Wesley. Badge. Azure, a two­spouted oil lamp argent, flamed Or.

Stephen of Whitby. Holding name and device. Per pale azure and Or, a fess wavy, cotised wavy, counterchanged, each azure trait charged with a gull displayed argent.

The submitted given name of Breck has been specifically documented as a last name. NR12 allows latitude for the use of a mundane name element as the corresponding element of a Society name. This latitude does not apply here since he wishes to use a middle name as a given name. It might be suggested to him that he adopt one of the documented names mentioned in the letter of intent.

Caroline of Glen Gowan. Badge. Azure, a sea­cat dormant, tail reflexed, argent.

David of Mecca. Name and device. Or, on a sun sable, a sword argent, all within a bordure embattled sable.

Please ask him to draw the sword so that it lies entirely upon the sun.

Ebba la Rousse. Name and device. Or, on a fess vert between three escallops inverted sable, a seahorse naiant to sinister Or.

Since her paperwork allowed grammatical changes, we have changed the byname to the correct feminine form for a "redhead".

Guenever of Ravencroft. Name only.

Kevin O'Fiodhabhra. Badge. A furison azure.

Lucrezia Lupinetta. Name and device. Sable, a wolf sejant reguardant within a bordure rayonny argent.

The family name is acceptable, but does not mean "little wolf", as the submittor believed (that would be "lupetta"). Instead, the byname means "little lupine flower".

Mont d'Or, Shire of. Name and device. Vert, three chevronels braced Or and in chief a laurel wreath argent.

Myfanwy of Oakwell. Name and device. Gyronny argent and azure, on a chief wavy Or three fountains.

Osgot of Corfe. Name only.

Saint Ursula, College of. Name only.

Seanan the Beleaguered. Name and device. Purpure, two natural seahorses erect respectant argent and a point pointed ermine.

Tako Jiro. Name only.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE RETURNED:

Kingdom of An Tir

Aedrik Thorulfsson. Device. Per bend sable and gules, a borre­style gripping beast within and grasping an annulet argent.

The gripping beast is not a consistent heraldic charge which could reliably be rendered by a competent heraldic artist. The beast on the emblazon is in fact copied from a particular broach from Rinkaby. Additionally, there is a technical conflict with Comura Shimitsu ("Sable, two chevronels couped counter­couched within and annulet argent.").

Alcestis of Phoenixgate. Name only.

Since Alcestis is the lady whom Hercules rescued from the underworld (in classic Greek mythological sources she is often referred to as the only "normal" mortal to have returned through the gates of death), using that given name in conjunction with the beast that ancient myth had dying only to rise again seemed to be too close to a claim to, if not immortality, the ability to rise from the dead.

An Tir, Kingdom of. Badge for Lists Office. Sable, a scroll unrolled bendwise argent and overall a sword Or.

Conflict with the device of Morimoto Koryu ("Sable, a crescent argent surmounted by a ken blade Or."). Since he is a resident of An Tir, perhaps a permission to conflict might be obtained.

Bridget O Fearghail. Badge for Household Phantasia. Sable, in bend sinister a compass star and a mouse rampant reguardant argent.

There was general agreement that this badge is not period in style (the blazon cannot really represent the design which features a reasonably sized mouse scrunched into dexter base and a very small star in sinister chief. Moreover, the juxtaposition of the mouse and the name Phantasia seemed "too much" (even if [Mickey] the mouse did not wear a magician's hat!).

Cheryl of Hastenholm. Device. Azure, a winged bull between three compass stars Or.

Visual conflict with Anthony of Hag's Head ("Azure, a chimera passant argent between three mullets Or.").

Hrolf the Silent. Device. Sable, on a sun Or a drakkar affronty proper, sailed vert and a base wavy barry wavy Or and vert.

Technically this conflicts with Kourost Bernard of the East Woods ("Sable, a sun eclipsed Or.").

Malcolm Strider of Amesbury. Device. Or, a pegasus rampant gules within a dolmen issuant from base sable and in chief a plate fimbriated sable.

The cumulative effect of the anomalies involved in this device are just too strong. Firstly, the plate fimbriated is poor style. Secondly, a dolmen issuant from base is an anomaly. Thirdly, the "dolmen" here is depicted more as a wooden "ranch" gate rather than as the "standard" Society dolmen.

Morgan Schwertfeger. Device. Quarterly per fess wavy gules and Or, in bend sinister a bendlet sinister azure and a horse's head, couped and sinister facing, sable.

This looks precisely like quartering, the more so because of the ordinary placed in the sinister chief compartment.

Robin de Montvert. Device. Argent, a lion statant erect, bearing a drawn bow and a quiver proper, in chief two annulets gules.

Conflict with Leigh ("Argent, a lion rampant, in dexter point an annulet gules.").

Three Mountains, Barony of. Order of the Rising Sun. Name and badge. Per fess indented of three points azure and argent, issuant from the line of division a sun Or, eclipsed gules.

The badge is not period style and clearly falls under the heading of X3 on modern design elements. The Laurel staff was divided on the name, some feeling that it was too reminiscent of the Japanese Empire, others humming "there was a house in New Orleans. . ." In either case, its suitability for a Society honor is open to serious question.

Ulf Magnusson. Device. Vert, a wolf's head cabossed argent, maintaining in its mouth a blacksmith's hammer proper, headed argent.

There are two problems with this device as presented. There is insufficient contrast between the brown of the hammer's handle and the field so that the head of the hammer seems to hang in space. Also, there is a technical conflict with Randwulf Randulfing ("Vert, a wolf's head cabossed maintaining in its mouth a broken sword blade, point to sinister, argent and in chevron inverted two broken swords inverted proper.").

Kingdom of Atenveldt

Genevieve nic an Cheannai. Device. Per pall gules, purpure and azure, a unicorn passant reguardant argent.

Conflict with Selena of Dragon's Bay ("Vert, a dapple grey unicorn statant."). The posture differences cumulative amount to a minor point and the tincture difference between the two unicorns is non­existent, both technically and visually. There are problems also with Leanne of Maywood ("Azure, a unicorn trippant to sinister, armed, crined, pizzled and cullioned Or."), although that is more of a judgement call.

Jocelyn of Fairfax. Change of Name to Jocelyn Doughlass of Fairfax.

The spelling "Doughlass" is neither English nor Gaelic and does not represent a valid variant of either. In English the family name should be Douglas. In Gaelic it is Dubhghlas. She must choose one or the other. (Note: her paperwork forbade any changes to her submission so that we were forced to return the name change in its entirety.).

Kingdom of Atlantia

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Title for Phoenix Pursuivant.

This name is in conflict with Greece's Order of the Phoenix. Note that the mundane custom of naming heraldic officers for the major orders (e.g., Bath Herald, Garter King of Arms, Toison d'Or Herald, etc.) requires that we allow heraldic titles and the names of Orders (Society and mundane) to conflict.

Arlis Behrendsdohtor. Device. Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between two domestic cats sejant affronty argent, a domestic cat dormant sable.

Conflict with Andrew Robertson ("Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between two abalone shells argent, a sea otter statant erect proper."). Also conflict with Rowena d'Anjou ("Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between two fleurs­de­lys argent, a swan naiant affronty, wings elevated and addorsed, head to sinister, sable.").

Corwin Wealdboren. Device. Sable, a pall between rose and a fleur­de­lys and in chief a raven volant, all argent.

In the first place, it has been previously ruled that you may not use a rose, especially a white rose, in conjunction with the name Corwin (February, 1985). Even if you could, three different object around a pall are by definition too complex (September, 1985). Finally, this device conflicts with Tristram of Tir Ysgithr ("Sable, a pall between a fleur­de­lys and two coffins argent.").

Imran Yosuf le Scorpioun. Device. Gules, a swan rousant argent, beaked and membered sable, and in chief an escallop Or.

Conflict with the Counts of Stormarn, as quartered by the Kings of Denmark ("Gules, a swan argent, beaked and membered sable, gorged of a crown Or.") There is also a problem with the silver swan of the Bohun family, customarily placed in this posture, since this has been used as a royal badge in England since the fifteen century. Note that the effect of cadency is increased because the escallop is so reduced in size and visual effect as to appear a standard minor brisure mark.

Luce Urquhart. Device. Sable, on a cartouche between two fleurs­de­lys Or, a swan naiant to sinister sable, all within a bordure engrailed Or.

Unfortunately, as Crescent has pointed out, the cartouche appears like an inescutcheon of pretense of the arms of Western Australia ("Or, a swan naiant to sinister sable.").

Sacred Stone, Barony of. Order of the Phoenix's Claw. Badge. Argent, in pale two spears in saltire and a phoenix's claw vert, issuant from flames Or.

Although blazoned as proper on the letter of intent, the flames depicted are clearly all Or, which we have to assume was the intent of the submittors. As the flames are a major part of the design, we had to consider this metal on metal.

Sacred Stone, Barony of. Order of the Phoenix's Eye. Badge. Argent, the head of a phoenix vert, issuant from flames Or, marked gules.

Again, although blazoned as proper on the letter of intent, the flames depicted are clearly Or, with a heart of gules. As the flames are a central part of the design, we had to consider this metal on metal. Note: the depiction of the eye is so minor a detail it should be left to the artist's, even though it may serve the purpose of cant to include it in a blazon.

William Geoffrey. Device. Or, a pall inverted azure between three Canada geese proper. (Branta canadensis).

Since the birds are predominantly argent (only the heads and tails show black markings) they are "metal on metal".

Kingdom of Caid

Adelaide de Beaumont. Badge. Argent, a pimpernel barbed gules, slipped, leaved and seeded proper, within a bordure sable.

There is a conflict with the cited device of Frances la Rouge ("Argent, a meadow beauty, blossom pendant, gules, slipped and leaved, within a bordure sable."). The changes in type and tincture of the flower cannot be more than two strong minors, if that.

Philippe Lyon de Marseilles. Device. Sable, a lion's head cabossed Or within an annulet of flame proper, on a chief Or three fleurs­de­lys gules.

This is in conflict with the cited device of Ari ben Abraham ("Sable, a lion's head cabossed, on a chief Or, five mullets of six points sable.") The allusion to increases in the importance of tertiary charges when placed on an ordinary (in Master Baldwin's cover letter of April, 1986) would seem to be applied to ordinaries where they are the only charge on the field. Here this is not the case: the ordinary is itself a secondary charge and therefore the charges lying upon it are reduced in visual importance.

Kingdom of Meridies

Amalia Silvia. Device. Per saltire gules and Or, an acorn, slipped and leaved, proper between in chief two mullets in fess and in base a crescent argent.

While the leaves are on the metal portion of the field and create no problem, the predominantly brown acorn (only the nut itself is Or, the cup and slip are brown) fades into the gules portion of the field. Note also that the two mullets in chief create a rather unbalanced effect.

Balkor MacDuffer. Name only.

Balkor is not really a valid "made­up" name, the more so since it is a spelling variant of the common noun "balker" (which has two major period uses according to the OED: one who made balks or a person who stood on shore to signal fishermen of the location of shoals of fish). By the submittor's own documentation "duffer" is an occupational term, of the sort not usually used to form patronymics, and appears to be out of period slang, being first attested by the OED in 1756.

Danica Katherine of Harveston Vale. Device. Gyronny azure and argent, a mullet of four points counterchanged argent and vert between in bend sinister two sprigs of vine palewise vert.

The vines were blazoned as morning glory but there were no flowers or other identifying marks. This is visually in conflict with the badge of Morberie of Tor Denly ("Gyronny argent and azure, a mullet of four points counterchanged.") Moreover, placing charges only on two of the argent compartments of the field creates a very modern, unbalanced effect.

Joscelyn Sinclair. Device. Or, a sword palewise argent, hilted sable, surmounted by in saltire two irises purpure, slipped and leaved vert, overall a heart gules.

While the letter of intent and the forms blazoned the sword as sable, it was emblazoned as argent, hilted sable, and lacking solid evidence to the contrary, we normally assume that the emblazon conveys the intent of the submittor. That being so, the device breaks the "Rule of Tincture". Even were that not the case, both visually and by the blazon, there are four layers on this device.

Kelvin Alastair MacGowan. Device. Vert, in pale a compass star gyronny of sixteen argent and sable and a one­horned anvil argent.

From its very first return from Laurel, this has conflicted with Anaron Caithness of Wik (formerly Anaron of the Vale of Springs) and this resubmission has done nothing to address that conflict. The "hardship case" situation cannot overcome a conflict which existed at the time the submission was first made. Anaron has made a slight change to his device since the original submission was made (it is now "Vert, in pale a hippogriff rampant and a two­horned anvil argent."), but the conflict still remains.

Kenneth Meriedoc Olafsson. Device. Azure, a chess rook between three trees couped argent.

Again, while the letter of intent and one of the two blazons on the forms includes a bordure, the emblazon does not. We therefore have to assume this is what the submittor desired. It is unfortunately in conflict with the badge of Michael von Bogaart, cited in the letter of intent ("Azure, three trees couped argent.").

South Downs, Barony of. Badge. Per pale sable and azure, a pheon inverted throughout argent.

Since making the pheon throughout here is a distinction more than a difference, this is in conflict with Averanch ("Sable, a pheon (point in chief) argent.").

Timothy of Edessa. Device. Or, in pale a cross crosslet sable and a barrulet compony sable and argent.

It is clear from the emblazon that the cross not the "fess", actually a barrulet, is the primary charge. Therefore, the cited conflict with Christian ("Or, a cross crosslet sable.") does exist.

William Read of Alnwick. Device. Quarterly vert and gules, a Latin cross argent between in bend sinister an icthys and a patriarchal cross Or.

The ichthys is an abstract symbol and such are banned from Society devices in AR10c. If this were a fish, the symbolism would not at all be excessive (crosses were excessively common in period armoury, even in totally non­religious contexts). Since the actual fish has most of the connotations of the abstracted symbol, this might satisfy the gentle.

Kingdom of the Middle

Bergelmir Sigurdsson. Name and device. Azure, on a pale raguly argent, two ravens close sable.

The name Bergelmir appears to be a unique name, that of a particular frost giant, the grandson of Ymir, and therefore the name does not seem suitable for use in the Society. The device conflicts with Henrik Edward Alredson ("Azure, mulletty of four points, on a pale raguly argent, a beacon sable, enflamed gules.").

Comar gyr Mirand. Badge for House Vexillarius. Azure, a mountain of three peaks, the centermost enhanced, and in chief three mullets, one and two, all argent.

The household name is acceptable, but cannot be registered without a badge and the proposed badge is in direct conflict with Aliena of the High Reaches ("Azure, in honor point an estoile of four greater and four lesser points above in base three mountain peaks, the centermost enhanced, argent.").

Francoise Follet Accard de Nevers. Device. Argent, in pale a heart and a lozenge gules and in fess a trefoil fesswise and a spade fesswise reversed sable, all conjoined in cross, within a bordure azure, semy of hawk's bells Or.

The conjunction of the playing card symbols in this manner is not period style.

Francoise Katze. Device. Gules, a winged cat passant guardant, forepaw extended, wings elevated and addorsed, argent, charged on the wing with a fleur­de­lys sable.

This is a direct conflict with the fieldless badge of the Barony of Windmaster's Hill ("A winged cat passant, forepaw extended, wings elevated and addorsed, argent.").

Grazia Geralda Loviza de Navarra. Device. Or, bendwise a sprig of holly vert, fructed gules, a chief Or, fretty gules.

Alas! the predominantly Or chief on the Or field is "metal on metal".

Gwyntarian, March of. Badge for Gwyntarian Archers' Guild. A bowyer's knot Or.

The knot is not a standard knot and consequently could not be recovered by a competent heraldic artist from the blazon.

Helmut of Greenland. Name for Teacht Cearta Nua.

The name was stated to mean "House of the New Forge" in Old Irish, but no documentation to support this was supplied and two hours spent in Laurel's Old Irish sources could not confirm more than "tech" for house and something close for a spelling variant to "nua" for new.

Kjarvala Thorvaldsdottir. Device. Per fess indented azure and sable, two ravens passant close respectant and a wolf sejant ululant argent.

Azure and sable have too poor a contrast to qualify for the use of complex lines of division under AR2c.

Lucian Starwind. Device. Azure, seven comets bendwise sinister argent. Notwithstanding the blazon on the letter of intent, the emblazon clearly shows heraldic comets, their tails to chief. These charges are not in a heraldic arrangement that can be clearly blazoned and reconstructed by a reasonably competent heraldic artist. To best describe the current arrangement would require a phrase like "a running wedge of shooting stars". Please request the submittor to place the charges in a standard arrangement, bearing in mind the possible conflicts with comets, estoiles and mullets.

Middle Kingdom. Seal for Trillium Herald. Two straight trumpets in saltire between four trillium flowers.

Registration of tinctureless seals for any but Principal Heralds ceased in January, 1986.

Minna von Lubeck. Device. Per chevron gules and barry wavy azure and argent, a chief nebuly and overall a swallow volant argent.

There is insufficient contrast between the swallow and the argent portions of the field and the chief which it overlies. A significant proportion of the identifying wing and tail shapes are invisible because they are argent on argent". Moreover, it is not, generally speaking, period style to have an animate charge overlie both the field and a chief.

Raedwulf Odell. Device. Per bend sinister vert and vert, ermined Or, a bend sinister between an eagle displayed and a tower Or.

Conflict with Mikhail Andreyevich Putnikov ("Vert, a bend sinister between a bear passant and a lion rampant to sinister Or").

Shadowed Stars, Shire of. Device. Or, mulletty of four points, a pall cotised between three compass stars azure, voided Or.

The visual complexity of the voided mullets on the unusual field mulletty is too great. In addition, the compass stars are "thin line heraldry" and not typical of the period style we expect of branch submissions.

Thorhalla Karlsdottir Broberg. Device. Purpure, a lion passant guardant, maintaining a ragged staff palewise, and on a chief Or, a compass star voided, azure.

The star is "thin line heraldry", almost invisible on the chief.

Thorvald Hrafnsson. Device. Argent, a chevron gules between a raven passant close to sinister sable, a dragon rampant azure and a triple towered castle issuant from base sable, masoned argent, flames proper issuant from its central tower.

Not only does this place three different charges around a central ordinary, which is forbidden, but conflicts technically with Warren of Bellford ("Argent, a chevron gules between a fox passant and a crescent sable.").

Thrain Broberg. Device. Azure, a sword proper surmounted by a pair of tongs bendwise argent and a hammer bendwise sinister proper and in dexter chief a compass star Or, voided azure.

Firstly, there are technically four layers here, although that could be surmounted [sic] by considering the hammer and tongs as a unit (though visually they are not). The compass star is both "thin line heraldry" and seriously unbalances the composition of the device. Finally, the allusions to "dwarven" tools in the context of the name Thrain, which while documented as a human name in period, is most familiar as the given name of the father of Thorin Oakenshield, is "a bit much".

Kingdom of the West

Eskalya, Barony of. Eskalyan Order of Merit. Name.

It was our feeling that this name conflicted with the Order of Merit which is one of the British Orders listed in the Society Armorial and Ordinary.

Iomhar MacThaimhis o Cairngorm. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister azure between two wolf's heads couped sable, three cinquefoils argent.

Conflict with Andred Fairhair ("Argent, on a bend sinister azure between two goblets sable, three daggers argent.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS ARE PENDED:

Kingdom of Meridies

Annora Maria Teresa Rossini. Device. Argent, a chevron dovetailed azure between two swallows volant in chevron respectant purpure and a lily of the valley plant (proper/purpure???).

The main information sheet and the emblazon show a lily of the valley proper, which has argent flowers and green leaves. The flowers, which are the identifying feature of the lily of the valley, are invisible against the argent field. However, there is a note on the emblazon sheet which agrees with the letter of intent in saying that the plant should be purpure. Which is correct? If the plant should be purpure, I will need a new emblazon sheet before I can approve this submission.

Kingdom of the Middle

Alixia Aurora Airielle. Badge for Household of the Golden Griffen. Azure, mulletty argent, a griffin passant to sinister Or.

Held pending arrival of forms.

Thrain Broberg. Badge for House Broberg. Per chevron azure and argent, in chief a bridge Or, masoned sable.

Held pending arrival of forms.