Kingdom of the East

Kingdom of Atenveldt

NOTE: Draw the raven as properly rising.

NOTE: You cannot have orles, bordures, or other throughout ordinaries or subordinaries on fieldless badges. I have therefore reblazoned the orle as an annulet.

NOTE: we have, as allowed on the LoI, changed the wolf and lightning flashes to completely sable to provide sufficient contrast. (Gray on Or has insufficient contrast.)

NOTE: This would look better if the lion were rampant to sinister.

NOTE: We could not substantiate changing S to X, so we used Sarai. A peacock close is an easier blazon than a peacock pavanated.

NOTE: This is excessive use of proper. It would be much better if the paint brushes were of a heraldic tincture.

NOTE: The crescent would be better if moved more to chief.

NOTE: It appears that the names of Catholic churches and schools were not reserved. They were just named after a particular saint. Popular saints could have hundreds of schools and churches named for them. Thus we need not worry about conflicts with SCA colleges, except possibly for particularly famous mundane colleges.

NOTE: Monsho tells me that Maikeru is the proper transliteration of the Japanese pronunciation of Michael. Be aware that there is already a group of Sakuras in Meridies (Sakura Tetsuo and Sakura Kimineko).

NOTE: Appeal accepted.

NOTE: Appeal accepted. Personas from outside Europe and the Mediterranean shores are visitors to the Current Middle Ages. Their names would be brought with them and so should be correct for their homeland's naming practices. Simahoyo Yahola seems to be correct, as it is now documented, so it is approved. The SCA College of Arms plays the part of an English College of Arms handling submissions from across Europe. Unless the person comes in with an existing heraldic emblem (such as the Japanese and their mon), that person would have to adopt arms within the European context and so follow European prac-tices. As blazoned, the device is heraldic and is approved. You can display your arms on any shape you want. If you want to display it on a rounded, you can. For the purposes of submission to the College of Arms, devices should be displayed on a heater shape (or lozenge). Once it is registered, you can use it in any shape you want. It is up to individual kingdoms to decide if scrolls can show arms as roundels. The alligator when displayed formally by SCA heralds should have the alligator drawn as a crocodile, as it was known in Europe. The submitter here can draw it in the native style if she wants, as the exact style is up to the artist.

NOTE: Since the harp is a single charge, I feel this is barely legal, but the use of a harp or on azure should be discouraged, as that is the arms of Ireland. Any further reference to Ireland in the rest of the device would have been too much. National arms with more than one charge are more unique and should not be used at all as parts of devices.

NOTE: Vladimir Starwatcher would be better.

NOTE: Yurag is similar enough to the Polish given name Yurek. Todesturm is the correct translation for Deathstorm. While morbid, that epithet is allowable.

Kingdom of Caid

NOTE: This does not count as quartered arms, since the first and fourth quarters are just Or.

NOTE: You had four languages, and the limit is three. Eileen didn't come into English use until after our period, so I changed Rahel to the English form, Rachel, to bring the name down to three languages.

NOTE: Batonvert states that Evron can come from Eoforun, a period given name.

NOTE: we could not find Aontais as a valid variant of Angus, so we used Aonghais.

NOTE: Nice heraldry.

NOTE: The word argent was left out in the January letter.

NOTE: Eilean Donan was and is today the residence of the chief of Clan MacRae. Only the chief of the clan can use MacRae of Eilean Donan, so I have deleted of Eilean Donan. Congratulations on registering a single-charge device.

NOTE: we have corrected Dornenwald to Dornwald. Pierced does not add another layer. The martlet should show a leg tuft.

NOTE: Household name approved (badge registered 10/30/82).

NOTE: Martletted means to remove the lower half of each of the bird's legs, leaving the feathered upper halves (looking therefore like tufts). Legless removing the entire leg.

Kingdom of the Middle

NOTE: Anntionette is her mundane middle name. While legal, brown on azure, ermined Or, has poor contrast. This would be much better if the pegasus were all Or.

NOTE: The name would be more correct as Danielle.

NOTE: The correct Romansch is Genavana. (Romansch is one of the four languages of Switzerland.)

NOTE: The Polish form of Ambrose is Ambrozij, so I have changed Ambrosewski to Ambrozijski.

NOTE: Good medieval heraldry.

NOTE: I have corrected ui' to us.

NOTE: Draw the billets fewer and larger.

NOTE: Although a legal Latin name, the name is poor practice as it is something of a joke name.

NOTE: I have corrected Urwelt (misspelling of primeval world) to Urwald (primeval forest).

NOTE: Tonk is Wendish for Anthony.

Kingdom of the West

NOTE: Draw the chape correctly.

NOTE: This is not impaled arms because it uses the same charges on both sides.

NOTE: Fimbriation of bordures is a discouraged practice.

NOTE: The correct transliteration of the Russian word for tailor is Portnoy (ΠOΡTHOН). If you want Partnoy, you will have to document its use.

NOTE: This would have been much better without the scimitars. I have corrected the spelling to correct grammar.

Kingdom of Atenveldt

NOTE: Device rejected. Do not fimbriate a chief. Charles should not surmount flaunches. Charges should be borne in their medieval styles, so rainbows should be borne with their attached clouds. You can have the stripes in the natural order or blazon them specifically.

NOTE: Device appeal rejected. In keeping with medieval practice, tiny insects may only be used for canting purposes in the SCA. In this particular case, the flea has such a negative association that it really is not appropriate for heraldic display. Insects should not be contorted into heraldic positions they do not normally assume.

NOTE: Name rejected. Bayard is a surname, not a given name. Add a given name. The badge looks acceptable, although the contrast could be better.

NOTE: Device rejected. This conflicts with Stormin: Sable, a lion rampant guardant argent. If you actually make it a tabby by coloring the stripes, it will be acceptable. As it is now, it is a white cat with thin diapering lines.

NOTE: Badge rejected. This is not heraldic style and is too complex for a registered badge.

NOTE: Appeal rejected. Gildiya Souk is offensive to Russian speakers, just as Bitches' Guild is offensive to English speakers, if not more so, since it is prac-tically obscene in Russian. We are supposed to be practicing good, honorable, uplifting heraldry. (N.B.: Brachet was a period hunting dog and an honorable term then, as such dogs were prized.)

NOTE: Name rejected. Estasia de Fiorenza is a character in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Count St. Germain series.

NOTE: Badge rejected. Brown on gules has virtually no contrast. I suggest you just use the white part of the head.

NOTE: Household name and badge rejected. Delete the word "Franciscan," as you cannot claim to be part of a mundane order. The badge is too complex. Either use the ecclesiastical form of the pall or the paschal lamb, but not one on top of the other. Considering the occurrences with the Crusadenes in Atenveldt, you should, if you use the paschal lamb, use a plain banner. Do not use a patriarchal staff. Or, a pall couped and fringed to base counter-ermine would be a nice badge.

NOTE: Badge rejected. The badge conflicts with Cotton: Vert, a lion rampant guardant argent (Papworth, p. 95). The Cavalier style is out of period, as is Puss in Boots himself.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. The ending ee is not correct in this case. Try Jeanne or Jehane. "Attendant is an adverb, not an adjective, and the result is that your name translates as 'Jean who attends the dragon"' (Batonvert). Consult with a French expert. Chiefs divided per fess were rare. In this case, the result is a fillet rayonny in chief. If you want it to be recognized as a chief, use Or and gules for the chief. This device conflicts with Rene Alichaeline: Argent, a wingless dragon couchant vert, and on a chief double-arched sable an increscent between in fess three mullets in crescent and three mullets in decrescent argent. Difference of a charged chief is a major and a minor point, and you need two major points.

NOTE: There is no line of fimbriation other than the masoned. Fimbriation must be wide. This is color on color. I suggest changing the chief to counter-ermine and deleting the comet. (Do not fimbriate chiefs.)

NOTE: Device rejected. Difference of half of the field is a minor, not a major, point. The line of partition, if visible, can help. In this case, azure and purpure have very poor contrast and thus the line of partition is virtually invisible. The device conflicts with More: Azure, a swan argent membered gules, within a bordure engrailed Or (Papworth, p. 317).

NOTE: Name appeal rejected. Morby or Murby is a surname taken from a place name. Thus Myrby would appear to be a place-name variant and not a given name. All names must be consistent with period naming practices in some specific language. You cannot just say it is "made up" and leave it at that. It is up to the submittor to adequately prove that a name is consistent with period practices. I suggest you register Mirabel of Riff and have your friends call you Myrby as a nickname. The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: Badge rejected. The badge conflicts with 1) Albania's flag: Gules, a double-headed eagle sable, in chief a mullet Or voided ; 2) Gawain: Purpure, an Imperial eagle displayed Or, armed and langued azure (Fabulous Heraldry #221); and 3) Merdred: Purpure, an eagle displayed double-headed Or, a chief argent (Papworth). (Gawain's brothers added bordures and other ordinaries as difference.) *see p. 12 for Sakura Klta Malkeru Vladimir Watcher of the Stars Sable, a mullet within a triangle voided argent. NOTE: The device conflicts with Shone: Sable, on a triangle voided argent twelve torteaux (Papworth, p. 1115) and Penhurst: Sable, a mullet argent (Papworth, p. 990).

NOTE: Mon rejected. All mon must be blazonable by European heraldic terminology or they cannot be registered. Japanese personas are visitors registering mon as arms with a European College of Arms. Your mon is not proper Japanese style, in addition to being hard to blazon clearly. The increscent should be palewise, not bendwise. I suggest Gules, in annulo a triple-crested wave conjoined with an increscent argent. Mon are meant to be emblems placed on fabric, and so the Japanese do not seem to use concepts like issuant from the edge of the field, since there is no edge. Note that the version above is easily blazonable. The wave should have the usual internal lines shown.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is not period heraldic style and is entirely too morbid, especially when combined with the name. Morbid heraldry is highly discouraged. Heraldry should be morally uplifting and pleasing to the eye.

Kingdom of Caid

NOTE: Device rejected. A wolf and a wolfhound are essentially the same and have therefore no point of difference. Thus there is only one point of difference in position between this device and DeWolf: Vert, a wolf statant argent (Woodward).

NOTE: Elmet states that in period heraldry they did not use the young of the species as a separate entity (other than the lamb or the pelican chicks in a pelican in its piety). The combination of the excessive use of proper, the non-heraldic positions, and the chick produces a device that is not period style, although it is cute.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. The name is not proper English usage. Try Derek of Zoe's Valley. The device conflicts with Houri the Savage: Argent, a lion rampant sable.

NOTE: Device rejected. This conflicts with Harold the Grim: Or, two axes in saltire within an orle of ravens sable. Replacing the orle of ravens with the noose is one point. The difference between Or and Quarterly Or and argent is less than one full point because only half of the field changed and the contrast is so poor that the line of partition does not stand out.

NOTE: Or on ermine has insufficient contrast.

NOTE: Device rejected. Chevronelly of two colors is not allowed. Conflicts with Grainne ni Dyerree-in-Dowan: Sable, on a mullet of seven points or voided vert a garb Or. Be careful of Kourost Barnard of the Eastwoods: Sable, a sun eclipsed Or.

NOTE: This conflicts with Gwendwyn the Silent: Azure, a bend sinister between a winged unicorn salient to sinister and a bat-winged manticore argent. Two changes of type of secondary charge count as one major and one minor point.

NOTE: Document Kaires. Tevesu is not a proper Greek form for "from Thebes." The correct usage is Thebaieus. The device lacks contrast and is not period style.

NOTE: Device rejected. See comment above under Daphne of Penguinroost.

NOTE: Badge and household name rejected. You cannot have wreathed of two colors. The badge is too complex. Meath is a county in Ireland, and so you cannot have House Meadhe/Meathe. Don't use place names or clan names. I suggest House Mead.)

NOTE: Name rejected. The names of birds are not acceptable as given names unless they were actually so used in period. The device looks rather modern in style.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. Taliesin is to Wales as Homer is to Greece or Merlin is to Arthurian Britain. It can only be borne if the rest of the name completely differences it from the great bard, such as Taliesin the Blacksmith. Merioneth is NOT made up. It is the heartland of Wales, where the great bard lived. (False documentation is a disservice to the rest of the College Thus the name is an exact conflict! The device conflicts with the Order of St. John of Malta (Knights of Malta). Their emblem for their emergency vehicles is Argent, a Maltese cross gules. The actual emblem of the order is Sable, a Maltese cross argent. A member of that Order has objected.

Kingdom of the Middle

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with 1) Siran de Cabanac: Azure, a hawk argent (Rietstaap); 2) Michelgrove: Azure, a goshawk argent (Papworth, p. 304); and 3) Cayne: Azure, an eagle displayed argent (Papworth, p. 298).

NOTE: Name rejected. This name does not follow proper Russian naming practices (given name plus patronymic plus surname). The name is also something of a joke name, combining Tsar Ivan Grozny (Ivan the Terrible) and Tsar Alexander.

NOTE: Name rejected. Please submit a copy of the page in the reference where you found that Aube is an old provincial name meaning dawn. We know of Aurore and Aude, but not Aube. The place name is incorrectly formed. Please check with a French expert. The device looks acceptable.

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with Barron: Gules, a chevron argent between three garbs Or (Papworth, p. 430).

NOTE: Name and device rejected. The only derivation of Hump that the College can think of is a diminutive of Humphrey, in which case the name conflicts with Earl Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Susses, Constable of England. We do not allow diminutives unless they passed into use as an independent name, which Hump does not seem to have done. (Hump has poor connotations.) I suggest Humbert de Bohun of Vatavia. The device looks like a Grateful Dead cover or a Hell's Angels emblem, and it conflicts with the attributed arms of the Virgin Mary: Azure, a heart pierced of a sword inverted proper between two wings Or .

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with Askerkby: Azure, a fess between three mullets argent (Papworth, p. 775).

NOTE: Device rejected. Parker indicates that trivets were borne as charges always shown from above so you can see if it is a round or trian-gular trivet. The device would be much better if both quills were Or.

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with Betton: Gules, a pile argent (Papworth, p. 1021) and with the badge of the Order of the Silver Molet: Gules, on a pile argent a mullet pierced gules .

NOTE: Name rejected. Samwise is an English epithet meaning foolish and thus is not a given name. Tolkien's use of it for a loyal (but foolish) Hobbit does not make it useable for humans in the SCA. Grammes, given as an English weight measure on the information sheet, appears to be dubious as a period surname. Skaldgrimsson is not a valid patronymic, according to The Old Norse Name, by Geirr Bassi Haraldsson, which does not give Skaldgrim as a name. Skald (poet) was an epithet or title.

NOTE: Name rejected. The rule on names of deities is that they may be used if they passed into common use in period, so long as you do not also use the symbols of that deity in the device. As Selene is the goddess of the moon, you cannot also have the plate. Selene rode a horse-drawn chariot, so the unicorn is unfortunate. You could use Celine, which is a different period name and is the name of a 5th century saint derived from Caelum (Latin for heaven). The dolphin is not haurient (as that is a vertical embowed counter-embowed shape) but just palewise. The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) should have yellowish sides. It would be much better as a heraldic dolphin argent.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. Shamish is not a valid hybrid of Hamish and Seamus. Hamish itself is dubious (Withycombe), so the proper usage for the name would seem to be Seamus Ivor Iain MacOwen MacLur of Kirkhill, except that the use of three given names, two patronymics, and a place name violates period Scottish usage. Delete some of those names. I suggest Seamus MacOwen of hirkhill. The device's division of the field is improper. Use per chevron throughout, not per chevron throughout enhanced. Make the chief wider. The lozenges would be better palewise. Delete the rays around the mullet, as they are not heraldic.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is color on color. This is not period style. Why not just use semé of raspberries gules?

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with Key: Sable, a chevron ending in the middle point with a fleur-de-lys argent (Papworth, p. 377) and Krysandra Morgan of the Heathers: Sable, a chevronel argent and a chevronel inverted Or interlaced.

NOTE: Device rejected. We do not use thin lines in SCA heraldry. This conflicts with the badge of the S.S.: Sable, two scarpes beviled pointed argent, also blazoned as Sable, two lightning flashes bendwise sinister argent (Virgule says bevilled is in period).

NOTE: Device rejected. The device is not period style. You cannot counterchange against a field seme in such a way as to partially cross the little charges. You could have Azure, goutte d'Or, a lion Or, goutte de larmes, as that way no goutte would cross the line of the lion. In any event, the device conflicts with Astley: Azure, a lion passant guardant Or (Papworth, p. 72). The augmentation is a separate registration which can be added or not as you desire, and thus provides no extra difference.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. Wey is a place name, not a given name. you would use Wayland. The device, while pretty, is too complex. Please simplify.

NOTE: Name and device rejected. Zardrik does not seem to be a valid Norse name. Van does not appear to be a given name, so you can't have Vansson. You will have to document Zardrik and Van. The device conflicts with Gwynaeth math o'Ddylluan: Sable, a bezant charged with a raven on a branch bendwise all sable, and with Cassandra of the East Winds: Sable, on a plate a flame gules.

NOTE: Device rejected. This is impaled arms.

Kingdom of the West

NOTE: Device rejected. It conflicts with the Knights of the Watch: Sable, an owl displayed argent (World of Greyhawk).