LoAR

of the College of Arms
of the
Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

October 1990


THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN REGISTERED:

ANSTEORRA

Adriana Lorelle. Name and device. Argent, issuant from a goblet azure a garden rose gules, sliped and leaved proper, all within a bordure counter-compony azure and Or.

Arianwen ó Báire. Name.

Berengaria of the Wode. Badge. [Fieldless] Two spears in saltire sable surmounted by a European brown bear's head erased facing to sinister proper. (Ursus arctos)

Caitlín Aine of the Oak. Name.

Catriona Elizabeth Snow. Name.

Submitted on the LoI as Caitríona Elizabeth Snow, the submitted form was adequately documented by the submitter and is more compatible with the remainder of the name (Catriona appearing to be an anglicized form of the Gaelic name).

Cú Roí Mathan MacRorie. Name.

Elric Dracwine. Name.

Eric Ragnarsson of the Ice Dragon Isles. Name and device. Purpure, semé of suns and on a chief Or a lion dormant purpure.

Étienne de Montagu. Name and device. Per pale argent and gules, on a sun a cross of Toulouse counterchanged.

Gawain Hrolfsson. Name.

Giacomo Datini da Venezia. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Hannah of Tarshish. Name and device. Quarterly Or and azure, a sun within a bordure counterchanged.

Ivan von Königsberg. Name.

Julia de Montoya. Name.

Lasairfhiona ní Dhoineannaigh. Name.

Submitted as Lasairfhiona ni Doineannaigh, use of the particle ní causes aspiration. We have corrected the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

Liam McManus. Name.

Lionel the Lost. Name.

Lucas FitzHugh Gray. Name.

Malaki David Dracwine. Name.

Martha McManus. Name.

Oriana Valentina Corbizzi. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Raven's Fort, Barony of. Name and badge for Order of the Raven's Heart. [Fieldless] A raven's head erased contourny sable holding in its beak a heart gules.

Roger Aylward Bagley. Name.

Sabrina Ragnarsdottir. Name.

Tuathal O'Kane. Name and device. Azure, a griffin couchant argent, on a chief Or three towers gules.

Vanora Isobel Farquahar. Name.

ATENVELDT

Aelfred vom Silberwald. Name and device. Per pale azure and gules, a pallet Or between an oak leaf and a goblet argent.

Submitted as Aelfred von Silberwald, we have modified the grammar slightly to add the article.

Alan le Breton. Name and device. Argent, two dolphins haurient respectant and a ford proper.
Submitted as Alan de la Breton, we have modified the byname to correct the grammar and to avoid conflict with Alan IV, Duke of Brittany. Alan the Breton should no more conflict with Alan, Duke of Brittany than Richard the Englishman would with Richard, King of England.

Aldgyth aet Fennholme. Name and device. Per bend embattled azure and vert, three gouttes d'eau and a garb Or.

Andrea des Chiens. Badge. [Fieldless] Two cats couchant guardant respectant purpure.

Angus Sinclair. Name.

Submitted as Angus Sinclair of Wick, we have dropped the locative to avoid the appearance of presumption that the submitter is the clan chief of the Sinclairs, Earls of Caithness, whose stronghold is Girnigoe Castle, just north of Wick in Caithness.

Arima Jinsuke Shirotora. Name only (see RETURNS for device).
Submitted as Arima Jinsuke ano shiroi tora, we have corrected the grammar of the epithet. (Such an epithet would be extremely rare among the Japanese gentry and nobility.)

Blaunche de Bayard. Name and device. Azure, a seahorse erect to sinister and three wolves' teeth issuant from sinister argent.
There was some discussion regarding the apprropriateness of the article "de" with the surname. Fortunately for the submitter, Lord Batonvert found Bayard as a town in France in period, which would allow the use of the article.

Caristiona Gordon. Name.
Submitted as Cairistrena Gordon, the given did not appear to be a reasonable variant of the documented Caristiona, so we have substituted the form documented by the submitter.

Catherine Owain of Porth Ceri. Name and device. Purpure, a crane volant, wings addorsed to base, and on a chief argent, three mullets purpure.

Esmeret de Saint Circ. Name and device. Per pale wavy gules and azure, six butterflies bendwise sinister, two, two, and two, argent.

Although the name appeared in the LoI as Esmeret is Saint Circ, the submitter's forms showed the registered form.

Guillaume de la Vallee de l'Ouest du Lac Salé. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted on the LoI as Guillame de l'Ouest Vallee du Lac Sel, the submitter's forms had the extra "u" in the given name. We have corrected the grammar of the locative as the submitter requested.

Guillaume de Marris. Name and device. Vert, in fess two towers Or, each with an armored arm embowed issuant from the battlements argent, maintaining two swords inverted in saltire Or.
Versus John of Two Towers (SCA), Purpure, in fess two towers Or, there is a CVD for the field, and the arms, being as large as they are, are certainly worth a second.

Iduna Snorrisdottir. Device. Per chevron azure, and vert semy of sheep statant guardant, in chief a thistle and a quill pen argent.

James Gislemar. Name and device. Azure, a dragon's head and neck couped contourny Or, breathing flames proper, within a bordure urdy Or.

Loch Salann, Barony of. Name for the Order of the Fons Animae.

Submitted as Order of the Fons de Animac, the form had Animae, which would be correct in Latin. We have dropped the "de" to keep the entire name in Latin.

Loretta the Merry. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Or, a quill pen bendwise sinister sable and on a chief counter-ermine an Egyptian sphinx couchant Or.
Submitted as Minniken the Merry.

Pelinore of Silverkeep. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Ragnell Gry. Name.

Robert mac Neill mhic Donnachaidh of Inchmagranac. Device. Gules, three scarpes couped to chief and on a chief wavy argent three hearts gules.

Submitted as Robert mac Niall mhic Donnachaidh of Inchmagranach, the name has been registered previously in the above form. We felt that the scarpes couped to chief were only one weirdness, insufficient on their own to require returning this submission.

Robyn O'Reilly de Aragon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sean MacAoidh an Slaoghtire. Name and device. Per chevron sable and argent, in chief two double-bitted axes in saltire argent and in base a dagger fesswise reversed surmounted by a goblet sable.

Twin Moons, Canton of. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Ulbhaid nan Monadh Dhubb. Name and device. Azure, three viold in bend, their bows in cross, between two bendlets Or.

William Somme de Ville. Change from holding name of William of Artemisia.

While the submitter's documentation ("Sum (amount) of (the) town (city)") made no sense as a byname, Dauzat (p. 555) gives Somme as a French form of the German surname Sohm. "De Ville" is a common local byname, "from the city". (Thanks, Bruce.)

CAID

Angelina Nicollette de Beaumont. Badge. Per fess engrailed gules and sable, in chief a bottlenosed dolphin embowed to sinister argent.

Anne de Villanova. Name for Clann Ruaphoic.

Submitted as Clann Ruaphoc, we have corrected the grammar.

Arianne Lightheart of Whiteheld. Device. Per pale azure and sable, a pile ermine and on a chief argent three mullets of four points azure.

Bianca Selina Orsini. Device. Per saltire ermine and Or, a dragon couchant to sinister between three mullets of eight points sable.

Collawyn Lughaidh O'Cearbhaill. Badge. Checky azure and argent, two harps reversed in bend sinister and a bordure gules.

Submitted as a badge for Equites Poetae, which designator was returned previously.

Emmaline Marie Chandelle. Name change from Emmaline Bonneville de la Mer and device change. Argent, a melusine proper, crined Or, within a bordure azure, semy of escallops inverted argent.
Her current device, Per chevron throughout argent and vert, in chief two escallops azure and in base a bat-winged seahorse naiant, wings elevated and addorsed, argent, becomes a badge.

Emmaline Marie Chandelle. Badge. [Fieldless] An escallop inverted azure maintained by two mermaids in fess proper, crined Or.
The escallop here was of sufficient size to clear this from the Ane-Marie Varre of Helsinger (SCA), Azure, a mermaid and a merman affronty proper, their adjacent arms elevated and crossed. As a consequence, we have modified the blazon to more adequately recognize the escallop's importance to the design.

Eric von Wald. Device. Per bend sable and vert, in bend sinister three crosses formy Or.

Frederick Asquith Feare. Device. Argent, two wings conjoined, on a chief triangular an axe sable, hafted proper, enflamed Or.

Giles Chadwik Richardson. Name.

Jamie MacLeod. Name and device. Vert, a fess embattled between three cups argent.

Classic armory!

Juliana de l'Eglantier. Name and device. Purpure, on a pale endorsed Or three crosses of Calatrava purpure.
While reminiscent, this is well clear of any Calontir armory.

Kathleen Cordelia ni Mháille. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Kira od Jizního Vodopádu. Name and device. Purpure, a phoenix Or enflamed proper between three compass stars all within a bordure dovetailed argent.

Submitted as Kiera ze Jizní Vodopad, we have modified the name and grammar to the forms recommended by Lord Green Anchor and Lady Harpy, as the submitter's forms allowed, to create a more homogeneous and grammatically correct form.

Leonard of Orange. Name and device. Per bend argent and azure, an arrow bendwise inverted gules and a bezant.
While William of Orange did appear to the be most famous member of the House, given the facts that there is a town of that name in France and that no evidence was presented that the House of Orange was strictly a royal household in the manner of the Hohenstauffens, but something more along the lines of the families of York and Lancaster, we felt that this name was acceptable.

Llywelyn Gwehydd Pentrelasleygercaerdydd ap Gwilym. Name change from Llywellyn Lasley Caerdydd.
Submitted as Llywelyn ap Gwilym o Pentrelasleyagoscaerdydd yr Gwehydd, we have modified the grammar along the lines recommended by Lady Harpy. [Our sympathies to the court heralds!]

Manuel le Gules. Device. Azure, a standing balance and on a chief Or two fleurs-de-lys azure.

Medb the Spinner. Badge. [Fieldless] A quill pen bendwise sinister argent surmounted by a spider azure.

Morgaine FitzStephen. Name and badge for Roxanne du Corbeau. Argent, in pale a corbie migrant to base sable and a quill pen fesswise, sustained in the bird's beak, gules.

We have modified the submitted blazon to note better the very large size of the quill pen in relation to the bird.

Percival Deiniolen. Name and device. Argent, a dragon statant guardant gules, within a bordure urdy sable.

Richard of Castle North. Device change. Azure, mullety of four points Or, a pithon displayed, head to sinister argent. If this is registered, his current device, Azure, a pithon displayed, head to sinister, wings inverted, inchief a mullet of four points, within a bordure argent, will be released.

Shala of the Angels. Holding name and device (see RETURNS for name). Per pale argent and Or, a winged lioness sejant reguardant, wings inverted, sable between three lightning bolts palewise azure.

Sweyn MacChlurain of Helsingor. Device change. Sable, a dragon rampant to sinister queue-forché Or and on a gore sinister ermine a cat sejant sable.

Tacina Minne Delamare. Name.

Timoteo Hilario e Fraga. Holding name and device. Potent in point, a dragon passant reguardant vert and on a chief argent three brown scallops inverted proper. (Lyropectin subnodosus)

Torvald, Canton of. Device. Per fess embattled vert and argent, a bar bretessed argent and a tower within a laurel wreath between in fess two towers vert.

Torvald, Canton of. Badge. Per fess embattled vert and argent, a torch argent and three towers in fess vert.

CALONTIR

Arian Rose of Nairn. Change of holding name from Rose of Nairn.

Applying what I have come to term the "Auda/'Ali" test, Arian Rose of Nairn should be sufficiently different from Aron Rose of Nairn.

Breccnat nic Diarmada. Name and device. Per bend purpure and argent, a decrescent and a pegasus rampant counterchanged.
Submitted as Breccnat nic Diarmid, we have corrected the grammar in the patronymic. The pegasus was blazoned in the LoI as forceny, which position has not been allowed since the tenure of Wilhelm von Schlüssel.

Connor O'Cleary. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister cotised vert, three oak leaves Or.
Pended from the July Laurel meeting.

Daibhaidh Orcheard. Badge. [Fieldless] A triquetra within and conjoined to an annulet argent.

Duncan Bruce of Logan. Device. Gules, a mallet within a two-headed serpent in orle, heads at either end and respectant Or.

Gawain of Miskbridge. Name and badge for House Miskbridge. [Fieldless] Four wheels cojoined two and two gules.

Halldor Arnkellsson. Name and device. Argent, goutty de sang, a mongoose rampant bearing two swords sable, standing upon a snake dismembered at the neck vert.

Katerina Arondel. Device. Azure, on a bend sinister cotissed Or three swallows volant fesswise, wings elevated and addorsed, azure.

Versus Byssett (Papworth, p. 265), Azure, on a bend between two cotises Or three escallops of the field, there is a CVD for the orientation of the primary and another for the orientation of the secondaries (the cotises). Versus Stewart the Stalwart (SCA), Azure, upon a bend cotised Or three keys palewise, wards in chief, azure, the same count applies.

Leif Tryggvason. Name.

Mahmood al-Taifi. Name and device. Gules, on a pile between two elephant tusks argent, an elephant rampant sable.

Versus Dunstable Priory (Papworth, p. 1025), Gules, on a pile argent, a horseshoe closed Or conjoined and interlaced to a staple affixed to the center of the pile sable, there is a CVD for the addition of the secondaries, and another for changing the type and tincture of half of the tertiary charges. (See the decision on the device change of Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, September 1990, for the relevant interpretation of the Rules in this case.)

Rob O'Flynn. Holding name and device. Gules, an eagle trussing a serpent and in chief three bezants all within a bordure Or.

EAST

Anne Aldryche the Madd. Name.

Beccán mac Ferganainm. Name and device. Argent, a dragon dormant Or within an orle of trees argent.

Carolingia, Barony of. Transfer of badge and designation for the Order of the Golden Key. Vert, a key palewise inverted and reversed Or.

Daene Ferris. Blazon change. Vert, a bend sinister sable fimbriated between two sets of three mullets of four points two and one argent.

While the specification of this particular arrangement of the secondaries is not a particularly good style, given that the submitter feels strongly about this specific arrangement of the charges, it was felt that the good will engendered by complying with his wishes would outweigh the negative effects of this one weirdness in the device.

Dall mac Daill of Dalriada. Name.

Dragonship Haven, Barony of. Household name. Haven's End.

Eleanor Callaghan. Name and device. Per pale azure and sable, two cups ermine.

Gabrielle van Nijenrode. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gareth the Eccentric of Saint Albans. Appeal of device return. Argent semy of delves pierced sable, three feathers in fess gules.

Isengrim d'Anvers. Device. Argent, a crane standing on one foot between in fess two roses proper and in chief a fess fusilly gules.

The crane was blazoned in the LoI as "in its vigilance", but that definition includes a stone held in the raised foot of the bird, which was not present in the emblazon. [Irreverent comment from the Laurel meeting: "A stork in its imitation?"]

Lindorm Eriksson. Name correction (from the registered Lindorm Eriksson Blad).

Marged Tylluan Fach. Device. Azure, a plate charged with an owl azure, all within a bordure argent.

Morgaine á Bheithir. Name and device. Argent, a domestic cat's head couped affronty sable between in fess two garden rosebuds gules slipped and leaved vert and a chief sable.

Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon. Name and badge for Kakitsubata no Myobu. Argent, two irises in fess within a mascle fesswise sable.

Ragnar Ivarsson. Name.

Randal of the Dark. Name.

Rhys Vaughn Gowers. Device. Per pale and per chevron vert and argent, a chevron and in chief two crosses croslet fitchy counterchanged.

Very nice!

Ruiseart MacLennan of Kintail. Device. Or, a sword bendwise azure surmounted by a heart bendwise gules.

Society for Creative Anachronism. Transfer of badge and designation for the Golden Key. Vert, a key palewise inverted and reversed Or.

Tearlach the Profane. Device. Gyronny Or and gules, a seal-flippered sea-horse erect vert.

Werner Josef son of Dietrich. Name and device. Sable, a key bendwise sinister wards to base between two lozenges argent.

MERIDIES

Asa Guthröthsdottir. Name.

Aynia Morgainn of Morgannwg. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Considering that the given is found with this spelling in the submitter's documentation, it seemed acceptable. (That it is most likely a variant of Aine is noted in the documentation.)

Christopher Lyon. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Elrik Guthröthson. Name.

Gareth of Chelmsford. Name.

Kevin Devin O'Quine. Device. Per bend vert and sable, on a bend between two domestic cats rampant guardant argent, a strung bow, string to base, sable.

Pended from the June Laurel meeting.

Leah of the Lillies. Device. Per chevron argent and azure, three lilies in chevron and a swan naiant counterchanged.

Pamela Dragen. Device. Quarterly vert and sable, a cross between in bend two suns Or.

Please as the submitter to draw more properly heraldic suns.

Rhiannon the Weaver. Name and device. Vert, an oak leaf argent and a mount perfess enarched argent and sable.

Sionyn Muirgen ni Dhomnall. Name for Dun Deilf Airgid and badge. [Fieldless] On a goute sable, a dolphin haurient argent.

Submitted as Dun Deilf Airgead, we have correct the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

Stephen Wolfe. Device. Argent, on a pale between in base two fleurs-de-lys sable, in chief a wolf's head erased argent.

Wulfric Peverel. Name and device. Sable, a wolf rampant and in dexter canton a Latin cross between four Latin crosses all within a bordure argent.

MIDDLE

Afonlyn, College of. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Agatha Greenwood. Name.

Alethea Pennington of the Ivory Tower. Name.

Allison Maysie Gunn. Name and device. Per fess gules and argent, a unicorn's head couped and a Jerusalem Cross wihtin a bordure counterchanged.

Angus of Ayr. Name and device. Purpure, on a bend sinister between a sun and a decrescent Or, three billets palewise azure.

Submitted as Angus Sunblocker of Ayr, nearly every commenter remarked on the modern connotations of the epithet, hence we are dropping it because of obtrusive modernity. The submitter might consider "Angus Muckle of Ayr".

Arielle of Dragonwyck. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Artair MacDaniell. Name.

Brianna of Glastonbury. Name.

Bryniau Tywynnog, Canton of. Name and device. Or, a chevron vert surmounted by a tower gules between three laurel wreaths vert.

Submitted as Bryniau Tywnnog, we have modified the grammar.

Cainwen Prenrhos. Name.
Submitted as Ceinwen Prenrhos, Lady Harpy found additional documentation for this name.

Cassandra of the Western Green. Name.

Catherine de Harcourt. Name and device. Or, a bend vert cotised gules between two towers vert, masoned Or.

Catriona de Brynton. Name.

Cecelia of Sternfeld. Name for House of the Lazy Snail.

Chen Yung He. Name.

Submitted as Chen Yung Ho, Lord Yale's discussion of the Wade-Giles and Pinyin transliteration systems for Chinese convinced us that the name would be better if spelled in only one or the other rather than a hybrid which used parts of each. Accordingly, we have used the Pinyin transliteration system as that was closest to the form submitted.

Constans Erikson. Device. Purpure, a compass star within a bordure embattled Or.
Nice armory!

Drachenfaust, Canton of. Name.

Edelgard Erzsébet von Württemberg. Name and device. Purpure, an ypotryll dormant Or.

Versus Huette Aliza von und zu Ahrens und Mechthiloberg, (SCA), Purpure, a dragon with the head and wings of an eagle couchant, wings displayed and addorsed, Or, we believe that X.2 can be applied, even with the "meatloaf" position here, owing to the very marked changes between the monsters. (We did pull Huette's file to run a visual comparison, as well. There is certainly no visual conflict.)

Elayne Walais of Cawdor. Name and device. Argent, a branch of heather proper, on a chief indented purpure a fleur-de-lys argent.

Frances Elizabeth Devereux. Name and device. Per bend sable, and azure semy of roses argent, in sinister chief a swan naiant argent.

Versus Symon Fresel (Papworth, p. 864), Sable, nine roses argent three, three, two and one, there is one CVD for the change to the field tincture, and another for the addition of the swan. Versus CHipping Wicombe (Papworth, p. 307), Sable, a swan close argent ducally gored and chained Or, there is one CVD for the change of field tincture and another for the addition of the semy (plus another for moving the swan to sinister chief). Versus the Kingdom of Meridies (SCA), Per bend sable and argent, in sinister chief a swan naiant argent, there is one CVD for changing the tincture of half the field and another for the addition of the semy. It is Laurel's position that a semy is a group of charges in and of itself, separate and distinct from any other charge or group of charges (the exception being where the semy and the other charge(s) are the same. Were the semy here of swans, or were the large charge a rose, they would be considered to be a single group).

Guillaume de San Marino. Badge. [Fieldless] A heart issuant from a sinister hand clenched fesswise reversed argent.
The heart is too large to be considered merely a "held charge", and we have modified the blazon to reflect its visual equality with the hand.

Justinian Clarus. Name and device. Azure, on a bend sinister embattled counterembattled voided humetty plain between two columns argent, a straight trumpet Or.
Though the voiding here is certainly unusual, it does not seem excessively non-period in style. Given that it can be easily blazoned in standard heraldic terminology in such a way as to guarantee the reproducibility of the emblazon, we felt that we could apply the Rule of Toyota here.

Katherine Adelle Barr. Name.

Labhriunn de Ramsay. Badge (see RETURNS for household name). Sable, an Oriental abacus Or.

Madawc of the Hawk. Name and device. Per bend Or and purpure, a hawk close to sinister gules and a wolf sejant ululant argent.

Middle Kingdom. Name for Award of the Dragon's Teeth (see RETURNS for badge).

Middle Kingdom. Badge (see RETURNS for name of award). Argent, a pale vert scaly argent between four pheons vert.

Odd Grimsson. Name.

Oriana Vallancien. Name.

Ragnheithr Thorbjarnardóttir. Name and device. Argent, a sledgehammer inverted bendwise sinister sable within an orle purpure.

Ranthulfr Asparlundr. Device. Per fess gules and sable, a fess argent between two griffins passant and an aspen leaf inverted Or.

Rainulf of Malfi. Name.

Red Spears, March of the. Name change from March of the Crossing of the Red Spears.

Ricard of Sable Tree. Name and badge for House Sable Tree. Sable, on a spearhead argent, a tree couped blasted sable.

While the submitter documented the form of a Tudor arrowhead in this shape, most heralds would see it first as a spearhead, hence we have reblazoned it thus. Given the gross changes in outline between a spearhead and a standard heraldic pheon or broad arrow, we do not see calling conflict between this and any of several pieces of armory with pheons inverted.

Rising Waters, Barony of. Name for Order of the Golden Chalice.

River Keep, Shire of. Name.

Robert le Medier de Rouen. Name and device. Purpure, ermined Or, an eagle rising contourny, wings elevated and displayed, grasping in its talons a scimitar fesswise, blade to base, between its wings a compass-rose argent, all within a bordure embattled Or.

Rowena o'r Emrallt. Badge. [Fieldess] A delf argent pierced two and two.

There was a lot of discussion about the submitted blazon, which called the charge a weaving tablet. While several of the commenters recognized it (and the submitter has demonstrated its existence well within period), they tended to be those who had used weaving tablets. We have therefore modified the blazon to ensure reproducibility without specialized knowledge or experience in fiber arts.

Seraphina Aglaia. Badge. [Fieldless] A seraph gules.

Siobhan an Dair Crom. Device. Purpure, on a bend wavy between two compass stars elongated to base argent, three cats passant sable.

Vaclav Semjaka. Device. Azure, a bear rampant and on a gore argent a mullet of three points.

William MacDonald of Balnagowan. Name.

Wyll Brabyn. Name and device. Vert, a pall inverted argent, overall a phoenix Or rising from flames proper.

Ziegfried Gunter von Wieselburg. Name and device. Or, a wall gules,the gate closed proper, issuant from the battlements a demi-weasel rampant sable.

Walls appear to be throughout, masoned, and embattled by default. The spelling of the given on the LoI, Zeigfried, appears to have been a typo, as it appeared in the registered form on the submitter's forms.

OUTLANDS

Aislynn de Darkenhall. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Submitted as Aislynn de Dairkenhall, nothing in the submitter's documentation supported the insertion of the extra "i".

Aurelia d'Ouessant. Name and device. Lozengy vert and Or, a rabbit statant and in chief three hawk's bells argent.

Averick of Glen Rowany. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Cathyn Bluesword. Badge. [Fieldless] On an annulet sable a cross fleury throughout gules.

Shawntel Haraldsdottir. Name and device. Per chevron throughout argent and azure, two fleurs-de-lys gules and a horse salient argent.

Submitted as Chantal Haraldsdottir, the submitter was requesting a compromise of the mundane name allowance to permit a less obtrusive spelling of her mundane given name. The bulk of the commentary on this issue was not in favor of such a relaxation of the mundane name allowance, especially given that "Chantal" was a placename in period.

Cian Conor McQuaid. Name and device. Or, goutty de sang, three bars and on a chief sable, three serpents involved Or.

Clarice d'Ouessant. Name and device. Lozengy Or and purpure, a spider and in chief three decrescents argent.

Daniel the Undecided. Name and device. Azure, three chessrooks in pale Or between two flaunches lozengy sable and argent.

Elizabeth O'Byrne. Name and device. Per chevron enhanced gules and Or, a garden rose slipped and leaved fesswise contourny and two natural seahorses addorsed, tails entwined, counterchanged.

Please ask the submitter to draw the angle of the per chevron line more steeply than it was on the emblazon form.

Endymion Meilichos. Name and device. Gyronny sable and argent, a mullet of eight points between eight others in annulo, all counterchanged.

Erasimierz Waspanieski. Change of badge. [Fieldless] A mandrake's head eradicated vert, fructed and corded about the neck Or, jessant of a cross crosslet fitchy quadrate, the limbs quadrate and square-pierced gules.

The submitter is adding a gold cord to his previously registered badge.

Fionnghuala Bethoc of Lindisfarne. Name.

Gareth of Gryphon's Nest. Badge for Gryphon's Nest. [Fieldless] Issuant from a crescent argent, a demi-gryphon gules.

Godfrey de Bolden. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Javier de Los Santos. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Katya Leonovna Belokoneva. Badge. [Fieldless] Three horseshoes interlaced in pall inverted argent.

Marcus Flavius Sylvanus. Name and device. Gules, two spears in saltire argent surmounted by a lion's head cabossed within a bordure potenty Or.

Muirgel McDonald. Name and device. Azure, six trefoils within a bordure dovetailed Or.

Outlands, Kingdom of the. Badge (see RETURNS for designator). [Fieldless] Two fool's baubles crossed in saltire argent, vested Or and vert, interlaced with a Heneage knot Or.

Paul of White Mountain. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Robert Glendon of Auk. Device. Gules, a tyger rampant and on a chief argent, three thistles proper.

Versus Ligonier (Papworth, p. 105), Gules, a lion rampant and on a chief argent, a crescent between two mullets azure, there is a CVD by the RfS for the difference between a lion and an heraldic tyger, and the changes to type and tincture of the tertiaries are sufficient for the second. Nice heraldry!

Robert the Iron Wolf. Device. Argent, a tower azure enflamed proper and on a chief sable three wolves' heads cabossed argent.

Sadhbh ní Dhonnabhain. Name.

Submitted as Sadhbh ni Donnabhain, use of the patronymic particle causes aspiration in the patronym.

Stefan le Gaoler. Device. Per bend sinister gules and azure, a keyhole Or.
The keyhole was indeed solidly colored Or, not just outlined.

Steffan of the Dragon's Lair. Name and device. Per fess embattled azure and Or, masoned sable, in chief a dragon passant to sinister Or.

Ursula die Taube. Badge. [Fieldless] A sun in glory Or between five crescents pointed outward argent.

TRIMARIS

Breuse Hartswood. Device. Vert, ermined Or, a two-headed phoenix, in chief a massacre, all Or.

Cynthia Loganaich of Killeenen. Name and device. Sable, a scorpion statant Or, in chief an estoille of five rays inverted argent.

Elspeth Radegund. Name and device. Per fess wavy Or and vert, a seahorse counterchanged, on a chief vert, an acorn slipped and leaved inverted between two tortoises Or.

Submitted as Elspeth Isabeau Radegund, the given names are two variants of Elizabeth. We have dropped the second in order to register the name.

Esobella Rowena Erwyn Ross. Name and device. Bendy sinister argent and vert, a vine bendwise througouth wavy sable, flowered with a rose gules.
Submitted as Esobella Rowena Eirwyn Ross, no one could document the extra "i" in Eirwyn, so we have substituted the documented form Erwyn.

Garrette Stanson. Name.

Gianetta di Remigio Welser. Name and device. Per chevron inverted azure and argent, a demi-spiderweb issuant from the line of division argent and three gouttes in pale azure.

A spiderweb is not a field treatment, it is a charge.

Giovanni di Rienzi. Name.

Gunther Halftroll. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Gwennan ferch Gwydion Ddyved. Name and device. Argent, chaussé ployé azure fretty Or, a madonna lily slipped and leaved sable.

Submitted as Gwennan ferch Gwydion O Dyved, we have correct the grammar. [Irr. comment from the Laurel meeting: "One out of every three devices suffers from the painful itch of piles, and frets about it."]

Hadassah bat Josef. Name.

Hartmann von Murrhardt. Name and device. Vert, a demi-hart issuant from a base barry wavy Or and vert, within a bordure ermine.

Helga of Darkwater. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Hilary of the Danelagh. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Ilan of Mathom Trove. Holding name and device. Per pall embattled argent, sable and gules, a cross formy quaterly embattled sable and gules, in base two crosses formy argent.

Name submitted as Ceidrych ap Gryffydd ap Cynan o'r Wyddfa.

Cú Lúaráin Cáelán. Name.
Submitted as Lúaranchu Cáelán, we have modified the name to correct the grammar as the submitter's forms allowed.

Morgan Alanna Morcheartaigh. Badge change. Sable, two mermaids displayed proper, crined auburn, tailed argent, maintaining between them a sword proper, the dexter maintaining in dexter hand a pot of gold, and the sinister in sinister ahnd a lantern Or, illuminated argent.

Oriana Goldenhair. Per chevron Or and pean, two gillyflowers slipped and leaved vert and a hare salient Or.

Though the charge in base was blazoned in the LoI as a rabbit, we have modified the blazon to match the type of quadruped on the emblazon form (and, not coincidentally, to improve the cant).

Stevyn of Beinn nam faoghla. Name.

Storm, Shire of the. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sveinn the Easterling. Name only (see RETURNS for device).

Sven Dragon Ormson. Name only (see PENDING for device).

Submitted as Sven Dragon Ormson called Raven's friend, the College has not registered "called [X]" for a long time. His friends may call him whatever they (or he) like.

Thorfinn Sigmundsson. Name.

Una of Blackberry Hollow. Device. Vert fretty Or, on a bend sinister wavy argent a blackberry briar leaved and fruited proper.

The submitter provided the College with a mini-emblazon well within the commenting period, so that this does not have to be pended. Thank you, Lady Triskele.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN RETURNED:

ANSTEORRA

Annes Clotilde von Bamburg. Device. Per chevron gules and vert, a chevron embattled between three crosses botonny Or.

Conflict with Parkins (Papworth, p. 412), Azure, a chevron embattled on the top between three crosses crosslet fitchy Or. Evidence was presented that period heralds saw no difference between crosses and crosses fitched, nor did the modification of the bottommost limb of four appear to give adequate visual difference to grant a CVD.

Diarmait ua Dhunn. Device. Per bend vert and sable, a Bengal tiger salient Or, striped sable.
Conflict with O'Halie (Papworth, p. 97), Argent, a tiger rampant proper, collared and chained Or. Given the other blazons of tigers in Papworth, O'Halie would appear to have a natural tiger, leaving us with only one CVD for the change to the field. Conflict also with the U.S. 65th Artillery Regiment (MilOrd #154), [Fieldless] A natural leopard rampant proper. There is a CVD for field v. fieldlessness, but nothing for the differences between the types of cat or stripes vs. spots on them.

Elfsea, Barony of. Name for Order of the Keystone of Elfsea.
Conflict with Æthelmearc's Order of the Keystone. Addition of the locative is insufficient.

Giacomo Datini da Venezia. Device. Barry wavy Or and gules, a swept-hilted rapier azure.
Conflict with Spalding (Papworth, p. 1102), Argent, a two-handed word in pale azure, Deucher (Papworth, p. 1102), Argent, a sword in pale azure, hilt and pommel Or, and Laurence of the Crystal Sword, Per chevron ployee argent and sable, a crystal sword azure, hilted Or, pommeled of a ruby proper. In each case there is only one CVD for the changes to the field.

Katrina of Iron Mountain. Device. Per bend argent and azure, in sinister chief a double-flowered thistle proper.
Conflict with Alison of the Many Isles, Per bend argent and azure, a thistle, slipped and leaved, proper and a needle bendwise, threaded eye to chief, argent. There is one CVD for removing the needle. Given the normal emblazon of thistles, however, wherein the leaves rather than the heads are the most visually prominent element, we could not see giving a CVD for the addition of the second head (not too dissimilarly to not granting a CVD for the difference between an eagle and a double-headed eagle).

Olaf Svensson. Name.
Conflict with Olaf Sweynsson, King of Denmark in 1086.

Oriana Valentina Corbizzi. Device. Per pale nebuly argent and Or, a vol sable.
Conflict with Dernford (Papworth, p. 1122), Argent, two wings conjoined sable and Derneford (ibid.), Or, two wings conjoined sable. There is one CVD only, for the change to the field. There was some commentary regarding the use of the complex line of division in two low contrast tinctures which had a charge (in this instance, a vol) overlying that line. The applicable precedent outlined by Mistress Alisoun in the LoAR of October 1986 and emended in June 1987, was that what could not be registered was the use of a complex line of division with two low contrast tinctures where there was a charge "which significantly obscures the line of division." (emphasis mine). The vol in this case does not obscure the line of division except where it crosses it in base. There is no problem with using a vol on a field which has a complex per pale line of division in two low contrast tinctures. (A per fess line, now would be much more problematic.)

ATENVELDT

Aelfred vom Silberwald. Device. Per pale azure and gules, a pale Or between an oak leaf and a goblet argent.

Conflict with U.S. Replacement & School Command (MilOrd #1061), Per pale azure and gules, a pale Or, and with the Republic of Chad (flag), Per pale azure and gules, a pale Or. There is only a single CVD in each case, for the addition of the secondaries.

Angrim the Unreasonable. Badge. Argent, goutty de sang, a skunk tergiant proper and overall three barrulets indented gules.
This design (as is almost any "road-kill" heraldry) is obtrusively modern, in violation of RfS VIII.4.

Arima Jinsuke Shirotora. Device. Sable, a Bengal tiger salient argent marked sable between two gores argent.
The gores are incorrectly drawn, even for a roundel-shaped field: they would not be symmetrical along the fess line, but would touch in base. Conflict with Arbouin (Papworth, p. 93), Sable, a lion rampant argent. In keeping with the precedent set by Mistress Alisoun in the LoAR of December, 1989, there is not a CVD for the difference between a lion and a natural cat (of any size).

Guillaume de la Vallee de l'Ouest du Lac Salé. Device. Gyronny azure and Or, an oak tree eradicated proper.
Conflict with O'Connor (Papworth, p. 1112), Argent, an oak tree erased proper, Perton (Papworth, p. 1113), Or, a pear tree vert fructed proper, and with Isadora of Orange Wood, Ermine, chausse-ploye sable, an orange tree eradicated proper. In each case there is only one CVD, for the change to the field.

John Ironstone. Device. Azure, a chevron argent, goutty de sang, between two wolves combattant and a wolf's head erased affronty argent.
Conflict with Moulton (Papworth, p. 495), Azure, on a chevron argent between three annulets of the second, fretty gules. There is a CVD for the change to type of all of the secondaries, but the change to type only of the charges on the chevron is insufficient for the second.

Loch Salann, Barony of. Name for the Order of the Flower of Chivalry.
Conflict with the SCA, Order of Chivalry. Addition of an adjective is insufficient.

Minniken the Merry. Name.
No documentation was presented to demonstrate that Minniken was used as a name, only that it is a word.

Pelinore of Silverkeep. Device. Or, a chevron raguly gules between a fox courant proper and a unicorn couchant reguardant sable.
Conflict with Aslyn (Papworth, p. 376), Or, a chevron embattled at the top gules. There is a CVD for the addition of the secondaries. The difference between raguly and embattled is not sufficient for the second.

Rander Avery of the Mease. Device. Gules, a winged lion-dragon passant guardant, wings elevated and addorsed, Or.
Conflict with Vandalia (Woodward), Gules, a wyvern crowned Or. It was the opinion of those at the Laurel meeting that while X.2 could be invoked against Aquitaine (Papworth, p. 78), Gules, a lion passant guardant Or (for the addition of the wings and change of lower half of the body), Swytham (Papworth, p. 981), Gules, a griffin passant Or (for the change to head and tail), that the similarity of outline was not sufficient to apply X.2 against Vandalia. (The default posture for wyverns on the Continent is passant, hence there is no difference for posture.) Given that wyverns were sometimes emblazoned with feathered wings rather than bat-wings, this call became much trickier, with changes only to head and forelegs, the detailing of the lion vs. reptilian torso being of less visual weight. In the end we felt we had to say that while there was clearly a CVD for type, that not enough difference was there to apply X.2. This may also conflict with the badge of Ariel of Glastonbury (SCA), Gules, a winged lion sejant affronty Or. While there is a clear CVD for posture, another CVD would have to be obtained from type, which is unclear from a sejant affronty position.

Robyn O'Reilly de Aragon. Device. Argent, on a pale sable between two scourges gules, a flambeau Or.
Conflict with Sallay (Papworth, p. 1007), Argent, on a pale sable a crozier Or, Lin the Baker (SCA), Argent, on a pale sable a garb Or, and several similar "Argent, on a pale sable an [X] Or". There is one CVD for the addition of the secondaries, but the change to type only of tertiary is insufficient for the second.

Ulbhaid nan Monadh Dhubh. Name and device. Azure, three viols in bend, their bows in cross, between two bendlets Or.
Ulbhaid was only documented as a placename, not a given name. ("Dhubb" as given in the LoI was a typo; the forms had the above form.) The device conflicts with Sylesdon (Papworth, p. 284), Azure, two bendlets Or. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the viols.

CAID

Alexander de Toulon. Badge. Azure, a seahorse and on a chief invected argent a crescent azure, dimidiated with Per pale azure and sable, in pale a bar and a rose palewise slipped and leaved argent.

The Rules for Submissions, XI.3, state specifically that "Armory that appears to marshall independent arms is considered presumptuous". This submission clearly marshals independent arms. The subtext to XI.3 notes that "Divisions commonly used for marshalling, such as quarterly or per pale, my only be used in contexts that ensure marshalling is not suggested." Dimidiation is one such context. Precedents for not allowing marshalling and dimidiation go back at least as far as the LoAR of October 24, 1979, Master Wilhelm von Schlüssel stated that "This is very lovely, but it looks like dimidiation, which we do not allow." The fact that dimidiation is not specifically mentioned in the new RfS does not mean that it is now excluded from the ban on marshalling. That the submitters may display their registered arms dimidiated (however unidentifiable each coat then becomes) is not disputed, but they may not register them this way.

(Another reason for not registering this particular badge, completely aside from the marshalling/dimidiation question, is the lack of identifiability of the charges, per VIII.3, which requires that "elements must be used in a design so as to preserve their individual identifiability". As many of the commenters noted, at least some of the charges on this dimidiated submission are almost totally unidentifiable.)

Kathleen Cordelia ni Mháille. Device. Quarterly purpure and vert, in bend two domestic cats sejant to sinister reguardant Or and in bend sinister two roses argent, all within a bordure Or.
The appearance of marshalled arms here is overwhelming, even with the bordure as a cadency charge. The intent of the "overall charge" requirement of XI.3.a is one of a charge lying in the center of the field, not a peripheral charge such as a chief or bordure (which were often used as cadency charges).

Shala bint Samia Shashati. Name.
While Shala is a reasonable transliteration of the Arabic name often transliterated as Shahlaa, and while Samia could be considered as an acceptable alternative to the name Samihah, no evidence was presented to support Shashati, nor was the use of a matronymic in Arabic documented. (Laurel believes that the two instances he could find, that of 'Isa ibn Maryam [Jesus the son of Mary, clearly a unique case] and one other instance noted in The Fihrist of al-Nadim do not establish a pattern of general usage. We would prefer to see more examples before allowing this exception to the rule of the use of patronymics in Arabic.)

Timoteo Hilario e Fraga da Vega. Name.

Had the submitter allowed any changes, we could simply have added an "i" to the byname, and registered it as Timoteo Hilario e Fraga da Veiga, but his forms specifically permitted no changes whatsoever, so we dropped the mixed Portuguese/Spanish to register the device under a holding name. [Had he allowed changes, the addition would not, if you will pardon the pun, have made "an iota's worth of difference" to the pronunciation.]

Tymothy John of Silver Oak. Badge. [Fieldless] A trefoil within and conjoined to an annulet argent.
Conflict with Joseph of Silver Oak, Per chevron inverted sable and checky sable and argent, in chief a trefoil within and conjoined to an annulet argent. There is only one CVD, for fieldlessness vs. the field.

Wintermist, Shire of. Badge for Guild of the Golden Mask. Azure, a mask of comedy between in fess two cubit arms Or, issuant palewise from a cloud argent.
The style of this badge is obtrusively modern. [I mean, c'mon, a smiling face sticking its tongue out at the viewer with its thumbs in its ears waggling its fingers?!]

CALONTIR

Anastasia Minskaya. Name and badge for Dom Koshki. Purpure, a wildcat's head cabossed wearing a horned helmet argent and in base two bezants.

The name of the household is not correctly formed, and there was some doubt as to what they actually wanted. "House of the Kitten" (our best guess as to their desires) would be "Dom Kotyonok". "House of the Kittens" would be "Dom Kotyat". The badge conflicts lInda-MUirreal von Katzenbrasse (SCA), Purpure, three cats' heads one and two, the upper cabossed and the lower couped and addorsed, all Or. There is one CVD for the change of type of 2/3 of the group, but nothing for the change to the tincture only of the charge to chief. Additionally, there were several questions by commenters as to the appropriateness (and in two cases, offensiveness) of the design, though the general feeling was that the Law of Toyota should apply here.

Demetrius il Condottierro. Device change. Argent, a triangle voided, issuant to dexter from its apex a pennon sable and a base gules.
While the primary charge here is nearly the same as in his badge, that was registered with the comment that it was barely acceptable style. The addition of the base here [one commenter noted that it looked like a pup tent affronty on the red sands of Mars] pushes it beyond the bounds of acceptable period style.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Stewart. Device. Vert, on a fess between two foxes courant Or, a sword fesswise vert.
Conflict with Ciarann mac Darragh (SCA, registered September 1990), Vert, on a fess between two wolves statant Or, a wolf statant to sinister sable. There is one CVD for the changes to type and tincture of the tertiary, but nothing for the difference between courant and statant (the legs are moved somewhat), or between wolves and foxes.

Rob Roy O'Flynn. Name.
After much consideration and discussion, it was determined that "Rob Roy" is so well known and closely associated with Rob Roy McGregor that it must be considered a unique name. "Rob" is fine, and so is "Roy", but "Rob Roy" is not.

EAST

Æthelmearc, Principality of. Transfer of heraldic title of Sycamore Herald.

Heraldic titles are registered to kingdoms (Administrative Rules, I.C.3). The East Kingdom may certainly designate this title to the use of the Æthelmearc Principality herald, however.

East, Kingdom of the. Name for Order of the Silver Blade.

Conflict with the Brotherhood of the Blade, registered to Sir Hugh the Undecided. Addition of the adjective is insufficient.

East, Kingdom of the. Transfer of title of Sycamore Herald.
Heraldic titles are registered to kingdoms (Administrative Rules, I.C.3).

Gabrielle van Nijenrode. Device. Gules, a fess bretessed Or between three jasmine blossoms and a perfume bottle argent.
Even by the submitter's own documentation, the variety of shapes of perfume bottles in period is so great as to make reproduction of this emblazon unlikely.

Galleron de la Chenille. Device change. Azure, three bill heads Or.
Visual conflict with Edward Plantagenet (Papworth, p. 699), Sable, three ostrich feathers Or. There is one CVD for the tincture of the field, but these bill heads look so much like ostrich plumes that we could not in good conscience give them the necessary CVD for type. (Some commenting heralds as well as those attending the Laurel meeting thought they were ostrich plumes until the blazon was read.) This is clear, however, of Hewetson (Papworth, p. 937), Azure, three plumes of ostrich feathers two and one argent. There is one CVD for the tincture of the charges, and another for type (well, not "type", exactly, but I didn't know exactly what else to call it. Number, maybe?) of charges. J.P. Brooke-Little, in his An Heraldic Alphabet (p. 166), notes that "a plume of feathers is a bunch of about five ostrich feathers". A bunch is not a single feather, and so there is a CVD here for type/number/whatever.

Maeve ni Siurtain. Device. Or, on a chief doubly arched azure three crescents argent.
Conflict with Pikenham (Papworth, p. 571), Or, on a chief indented azure three crescents Or. Though blazoned on the LoI as "three crescents, two and one", the slight displacement of the center crescent on the chief is insufficient to count toward the necessary second CVD to clear this. A chief is not really a wide enough charge on which to place three charges "two and one".

Valaric Dalicieux. Device. Lozengy argent and vert, a horned and winged demon sejant affronty within a bordure gules.
There are two issues which came up in the commentary. The first is reproducibility of emblazon. Despite its appearance in the Armorial (one registered in 1978, the second used for a cant), there is some dispute as to whether there really is a standard heraldic depiction of a "demon", with the majority of those commenting feeling that the wide variety of "demons" in period art make the reproduction of the emblazon unlikely. The second issue is compatability and offensiveness. It would appear that demon imagery was symbolic of evil in every period religion which used it at all. All in all, the submitter would be better advised to use a different charge.

MERIDIES

Aynia Morgainn of Morgannwg. Device. Gules, a pile sable, fimbriated, and semy of Jerusalem crosses, Or, overall a hummingbird rising, wings elevated and addorsed, argent.

The primary here is not drawn as a pile (which may be fimbriated), but as a chaussé field (which may not). A bigger problem is complexity: the semy of crosses of Jerusalem lose their identifiability on the "pile". The submitter might try simple "crusilly". Finally, the hummingbird is somewhat in trian aspect. While this alone might not have been grounds for return, she might as well correct it when she resubmits.

Christopher Lyon. Device. Per pale and per chevron pean and purpure, a winged sea-lion regardant argent.
A per pale and per chevron field is not one of those which may be of two colors or two metals. Given that the SCA considers ermined fields to be of the tincture class of the underlying tincture, this is an unregisterable field. (Quarterly or per saltire would certainly be an acceptable field in these tinctures.) There is also a possible visual conflict with Arian Rowan of Featherfin (SCA), Gules, a winged sea-wolf, tailed as a fish erect argent". The submitter may wish to consider this and/or address it when he resubmits.

Knikolos Major of Salem-by-the-Sea. Badge. Sable, a hippogryph salient to sinister argent maintaining a sun Or.
Conflict with Iriel of Branoch (SCA), Sable, a hippogriff rampant to sinister Or. There is only one CVD for the tincture of the monster, but nothing for the held charges.

MIDDLE

Afonlyn, College of. Device. Sable, a bend wavy between two roundels quarterly arrondi argent and sable each within a laurel wreath argent.

The roundels were blazoned on the LoI as whirlpools, but it is our understanding that whirlpools or gurges are used as a single, throughout charge on a field, and thus inappropriate for use as multiple secondaries. As reblazoned, there is a clear identifiability problem since they share a tincture with the field. Additionally, there is a conflict problem with Tulse (Papworth, p. 215), Sable, a bend wavy between two dolphins embowed naiant argent, since the roundel/wreath collocations are visually a single group of secondaries, not two groups. As such, there is only a single CVD for changing the type of secondaries.

Alastair ap Maelgwyn. Device. Per bend Or and bendy sinister argent and sable, in sinister chief a griffin segreant gules.
Conflict with Chisenal (Fairbairn's Crests, p. 107), A griffin segreant gules. There is a CVD for field vs. fieldlessness, but position on the field can count for no difference against a fieldless crest or badge.

Arielle of Dragonwyck. Device. Argent, a fret vert, overall a dragon dormant purpure.
There was a severe problem even on the full size emblazon with the identifiability of the overall charge. (See RfS VIII.2: "All armory must have sufficient contrast to allow each element of the design to be clearly identifiable at a distance.") The submitter might consider a different position for the dragon: passant or statant would make it much more readily identifiable.

Labhriunn de Ramsay. Name for House Abacus.
The household name conflicts with the Abacus Pursuivant (Atenveldt).

Middle Kingdom. Badge for Award of the Dragon's Teeth. Or, on a saltire vert eight dragon's teeth Or.
Conflict with Ould (Papworth, p. 1059), Or, a saltire vert. There is only one CVD, for the addition of the tertiaries.

Middle Kingdom. Name for Award of the Dragon's Pheons.
Conflict with the East Kingdom's Order of the Pheons. Addition of an adjective is insufficient for awards and orders.

Ranulf of Wolfshaven. Device. Counter-ermine, a cross moline argent, overall a wolf's head erased vert.
As blazoned, the wolf's head is color on color, since overall charges must have good contrast with the field rather than the charges they overlie. If he would consider shrinking the head so that it lies entirely on the cross, this would be ever so much better.

Ranulf of Wolfshaven. Badge. Argent, a crescent counter-ermine, overall a wolf's head erased vert.
The wolf's head here is not truly overall, and the complex (erased) line of division of the neck on the crescent creates some problems of identification. If he would enlarge the head to make it truly overall, this would be much better.


OUTLANDS

Aislynn de Darkenhall. device. Azure, on a bend sinister between two doves close argent, three roses gules.

Conflict with Hugh of Ravenwood (SCA), Azure, on a bend sinister between two fleams argent, three gouttes palewise gules. There is only one CVD, for the change to the type of secondaries. The change to type only of the tertiaries is insufficient for the second.

Averick of Glen Rowany. Device. Purpure, a chevron between two triskeles of armored legs and a lion dormant argent.
Conflict with Guiell/Gurell (Papworth, p. 397), Purpure, a chevron between three eagles displayed argent and with Archever (Papworth, p. 376), Purpure, a chevron enarched argent. In each case there is only a single CVD, for change or addition of the secondaries, respectively.

Godfrey de Bolden. Device. Or, on a pile rayonny sable, three cups Or.
The primary charge is not really a pile, as piles do not issue from the corners of the shield. Please have the submitter narrow the pile in chief when he resubmits. Conflict as blazoned with Baiggendens (Papworth, p. 1024), Or, on a pile sable three estoiles of the field, and with Playne (Papworth, p. 1025), Or, on a pile sable three mullets Or. In each case there is a single CVD for the complex line of division of the pile, but nothing for changing the type only of the tertiaries. Conflict as emblazoned (Sable, chaussé rayonny, three cups Or) with Genor (Papworth, p. 677), Sable, three cups Or, with a single CVD for the change to the field.

Javier de Los Santos. Device. Sable, on a bat displayed argent a cross formy fitchy within a bordure gules, escallopy argent.
The bordure is color on color, which the SCA does not allow.

Outlands, Kingdom of the. Name for Entertainer's Guild.
It was felt that the name was too generic to be registered to a single group (cf. the return of the Leatherworker's Guild (Meridies), LoAR of April, 1990).

Outlands, Kingdom of the. Name and badge for Equestrian Guild. [Fieldless] A saddle Or between three rowels in pall inverted argent.
It was felt that the name was too generic to be registered to a single group (cf. the return of the Leatherworker's Guild (Meridies), LoAR of April, 1990). It was felt that the overall design of this badge did not form a "self-contained" design as within the meaning of RfS VIII.5. They might consider charging the saddle with one or more spur rowels.

Paul of White Mountain. Device. Azure, a pall between a crescent and two sets of three mullets in pale argent.
Conflict with Collet (Woodward, p. 150), Azure, a pall argent. There is only one CVD for the addition of the secondaries.

TRIMARIS

Alianore d'Astralis. Device. Vert, on a sun Or, rayed alternately Or and gules, between in bend two daggers palewise and in bend sinister two harps, a wyvern gules, bellied vert, webbed and legged argent, and taloned gules.

This device is simply too complex. The sun rayed alternately of two tinctures, one of them low contrast with the field, the poor contrast of the wyvern's wings with the sun, the use of two different tinctures for the wyvern's torso, and the use of two different types of charges in what is visually a single group of secondaries were simply too much.

Ceidrych ap Gryffydd ap Cynan o'r Wyddfa. Name.

The name is a claim to descent from Gryffydd ap Cynan, king of Gwenedd of which y Wyddfa is the highest point.

Ealasaid an Dubhghlais. Device. Gules, a fess checky sable and argent between four gurges Or.
Gurges are a charge normally borne singly throughout on the field. There is considerable doubt that they may be used as multiple secondaries this way. This also conflicts with Butler (Papworth, p. 705), Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable. There is only one CVD for the addition of the secondaries.

Gunther Halftroll. Device. Argent, a gurge azure, overall a troll vert, maned sable and langued gules.
Conflict with Gorges (Papworth, p. 1122), Argent, a gurges azure. There were additionally a number of questions about the reproducibility of the emblazon from the blazon as there are a number of artistic variants of trolls.

Helga of Darkwater. Device. Purpure, a cross fleury triparted Or, on a chief double-arched gules, fimbriated Or, an escallop Or.
The College has not allowed chiefs to be fimbriated for a number of years now.

Hilary of the Danelagh. Device. Argent, an oak tree eradicated proper, fructed Or, on a chief vert, three hearts Or.
Conflict with Atwood (Papworth, p. 1115), Argent, an oak tree erased vert, acorned Or, on a chief azure, three acorns slipped Or. There is a CVD for the tincture of the chief, but the change of type only of the tertiaries is insufficient for the second.

Keriwyn ferch Owen. Name and device. Azure, an owl close guardant Or, in chief an increscent and a decrescent, in base two arrows in saltire inverted argent, a bordure Or.
The given is not a reasonable variant of Keridwen. No one could demonstrate that the "d" would have been dropped in any variant of the name. The device is perilously close to slot machine heraldry, being saved only by the visual relationship of the crescent variants. However, as the submitter did not permit the formation of a holding name, we are having to return the armory with the name.

Morgan Alanna Morcheartaigh. Badge change. Sable, two mermaids displayed proper, crined auburn, tailed argent, maintaining between them a sword proper, the dexter maintaining in dexter hand a pot of gold, and the sinister in sinister hand a lantern Or, illuminated argent.
While the submitter has every right to change her badge, we need to have a new emblazon form to do it, as the one in the files clearly shows the mermaids to be blonde.

Storm, Shire of the. Device. Argent, on a chauseé azure an aeolius argent, a laurel wreath vert.
The field is not really chaussé; it is not per chevron inverted, it is not a pile, it is not a chief triangular; being somewhere between all of these, we really don't know what it is. Chaussé issues from the corners of the chief and would touch the base point of the shield; per chevron inverted would issue from the sides of the field (rather than the chief corners); a pile would issue from farther in on the chief (rather from the corners) and would almost touch the base point of the shield and would not have room for a charge beneath it; and a chief triangular would not descend the field nearly so far as the one here does. Please have them choose one and reemblazon it properly.

Sveinn the Easterling. Device. Argent, on a cross sable, five mullets argent, in sinister canton a cross fitchy gules.
Conflict with Bastoyle (Papworth, p. 658), Argent, on a cross sable five mullets of the first. There is a single CVD for the addition of the secondary.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS HAVE BEEN PENDED:

ATENVELDT

Twin Moons, Canton of. Device. Azure, a pall inverted embattled between two moons in their complement argent and a laurel wreath Or.

In the LoI the tincture of all of the charges on the field was given as Or, where as the pall and moons are actually argent. This is pended until the January Laurel meeting so that it can be properly checked for conflict.

TRIMARIS

Sven Dragon Ormson. Name and device. Gules, two ravens addorsed environed of a serpent in annulo involved vorant of its tail, a chief Or.

The LoI had accidentally inserted the word "sable" following "ravens". In fact, all of the charges are Or. This is pended until the January Laurel meeting so that it can be properly checked for conflict.


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