NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Rayna (or Reyna) means Queen and thus may not be used in the SCA, so I have deleted it.

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Nice heraldry.

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: The proper genitive form is "na hEireann."

NOTE: The more period form would be "du Bastard." The circumflex was not used in earlier times. The bend sinister has poor contrast.

NOTE: The tressure has poor contrast. The use of indented in pall is not period style, so I changed it to a normal double tressure in order to be able to pass the device.

NOTE: This is rather busy. "Marrakus" does not appear to be a valid variant of Marcus, so I have substituted Marcus.

NOTE: We were unable to authenticate "Mirzazadeh," so I have deleted it. The device would be much better with only one mullet instead of three.

NOTE: "Coed" mutates to "Goed" after 'lo." This would be much better with four hearts, as it would then be balanced.

NOTE: "Rhinehart" is not a valid variant of Reinhard, so I have substituted the latter.

NOTE: "Sian" does not appear to be a valid variant of Sean, so I have substituted the latter.

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: All pine trees are just plain pine trees in heraldry.

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: The surname takes the feminine ending.

NOTE: The more correct, older form would be Beornesson. (See RETURNS for mon).

NOTE: Draw the scorpion larger. This is rather unbalanced.

NOTE: The name would be better as Arne.

NOTE: Clutching a dagger is worth a rather minor point and is therefore just enough to avoid a conflict with Hargest: Or, a griffin rampant azure. Please draw the dagger bigger.

NOTE: If you want to blunt the tips of the daggers to make them into sais, that is a matter for the artist. Heraldically they are daggers. You should not combine Japanese weapons with European heraldry. (i.e., pean and a chess rook) and a European name.

NOTE: Elydr is a given name, not a place name, and so you cannot have "o Elydr." I have therefore registered the alternate persona name without "o Elydr."

NOTE: This was formerly the badge for Chala Gaja; it is now Hastini Chandrals arms.

NOTE: This was formerly the arms of Sikhijvala Gehe Candrasya; it is now being retained by Hastini Chandra as a secondary persona badge. All other badges previously registered to Sikhijvala Gehe Candrasya are now registered to Hastini Chandra.

NOTE: We are reproducing pre-1600 heraldry, not 20th-century heraldry. In modern times dancetty has been used to mean indented of three points. This was not the case in period, when indented was drawn with few large indents. (unlike the modern use of a small sawtooth line). Thus the modern dancetty is what was normally drawn for indented in period. For this reason, in tile SCA we just use indented and draw it with fewer large indents. The number of indents is up to the artist, as long as it is at least three.

NOTE: A striking design. Do not use per pall with two of the tinctures the same. In this case, per chevron inverted takes care of it. The line of division will naturally fall under the upper two arms of the pall.

NOTE: The College does not wish to set the precedent of allowing badges to be registered for specific events. (.i.e., the Artemisian Games), as the result could be a limitless number of badges for every event on the calendar. There is also the objection to the combination of the name Artemis. (goddess of the moon) and two moons on the badge. Therefore the badge is registered directly to the shire. (If they choose only to display it at that event, that is up to them.).

NOTE: The badge could only be displayed on argent, and so I have registered it with an argent field. The period practice with fieldless badges was for the charges to be conjoined, not separated. That way, the badge could be used as a pin.

NOTE: Principal Heralds may grant titles to heralds in charge in subsidiary branches when the branches have sufficient membership and activity to warrant titles. Such titles should not be handed out wholesale, but only where clearly deserved.

NOTE: This would be better balanced if the quill were between two crosses in bend.

NOTE: Draw the male griffin with more prominent spikes. Vert and azure have little contrast between them and are thus a poor combination for a divided field.

NOTE: Draw the stirrup cup with a flatter bottom so it doesn't look like an inescutchcon.

NOTE: Virgule states that a star is not an official symbol of the Holy Spirit. See above comment on the stirrup cup.

NOTE: This is period style for a badge. Very good. (Draw the single-bitted axes bigger, for better balance.).

NOTE: You cannot register an alternate persona name by itself. They are only registered with a badge. There is no need to register them in the first place, as you can use them without registering them. In Irish, the prepositions often cause the initial consonant of the following word to mutate. The C in Cifianach is pronounced as a G when "na" precedes Cifianach. This is conventionally indicated by having a lower-case g added, thus "na gCifianach." The capital C is left. (although not pronounced) to indicate what the word actually is.

NOTE: This is uncomfortably reminiscent of a maker's mark but it does not look like a monogram. (or pomegranate pierced). This is consistent with period badges, which were fieldless and designed to not look like arms.

NOTE: This was previously passed as just Richard Corwin. The LoI did not say, as it should have, that there was a name change. You cannot be "of Avalon," so I have just added "of Oldecastle."

NOTE: If you can document Rickhardt as a period spelling variant, you can have it. In the meantime, I have substituted the correct form of Ricard.

NOTE: I have received evidence that Kendra is acceptable, and that there was a St. Lupus of Troyes.

NOTE: An ordinary lozengy of one tincture is made of lozenges conjoined. An ordinary lozengy of two colors means it is tinctured of the pattern lozengy and has straight outer lines. This confusion is period, and is similar to the confusion between the line of division potenty and the fur potenty of two colors. Parker. (p. 384) cites two uses in period of an ordinary lozengy of one color, consisting of a row of lozenges conjoined.

NOTE: The last word aspirates and mutates after "ni."

NOTE: Good heraldry,

NOTE: Excellent heraldry! the correct French surname form is "de Rossignol."

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Excellent heraldry! I have used the correct translation for Isabella Redhaired of the Gold Jewel.

NOTE: I have used the correct form of the Italian surname.

NOTE: Draw the animal so it is properly couchant and so the wings are distinct from the body.

NOTE: Armstrong is a surname or epithet, but not a place name. Therefore I have dropped the "of." A chief is placed above the lower part of the shield and so the bend sinister division line should meet the chief at the sinister edge of the shield. (Although you can find it both ways in period.).

Padraic MacBrian. Sable, a fret Or and on a chief arched argent two mascles sable.

NOTE: You cannot be the son of Brian Boru, also known as Brian na Kincora, so I have deleted "na Kincora." The addition of a charged chief is sufficient difference from normal mundane arms, as it constitutes a major and minor point, as does the addition of any other charged ordinary.

NOTE: Correct form for a place name is d'Amolie. While the barber pole is first attested in 1684, and thus an actual barber pole as a charge could be called out of period, the use of a pale bendy sinister argent and gules is acceptable period usage, especially since the barber pole was a reference to the twisted bandages used by the barber surgeons in period. (Philippe is an SCA chirurgeon.).

NOTE: Draw the fimbriation wider. Rik. (or Rick) is a pet-name form and not a valid period given name. I have therefore changed it to the period Dutch form of Riik.

NOTE: Draw the caltrops all aligned along the bend sinister. Show the fourth leg more. Otherwise, this is excellent heraldry.

NOTE: This would be more medieval with a second cross in dexter base.

NOTE: The bend has poor contrast. Draw the fimbriation wider.

NOTE: "Zungewohle" is not correct German usage, so I have deleted it. The use of two charges in pale on a chief is poor usage. Charges on a chief should be in fess on the chief.

NOTE: Good heraldry. There is no "e" at the end of Bellemain.

NOTE: Dolphins and fish by default in the SCA are embowed counter-embowed. If you wish them simply embowed, you must place the word "embowed" in the blazon. If you want them to be straight, then blazon them as palewise instead of haurient and fesswise instead of naiant.

NOTE: Nice heraldry.

NOTE: This was formerly registered as a personal badge. Although it is true that Dís was borne in period by a woman and therefore technically legal, its resemblance to Dis, god of the underworld, is very strong and its use poor practice, especially for a herald. I strongly recommend a different given name.

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Excellent heraldry (and very cute, too)!

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: Nice heraldry.

NOTE: Excellent heraldry!

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: Good heraldry.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. "Amra" is a byname of Conan, meaning Lion. It was a nickname, not a given name. M'Chib is not proper Arabic. Bakerian is not a valid Latinization of Baker. Try something like Michael the Baker. The chief has four layers. Try using annulets.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. Please obtain permission from Caradoc ap Owain. While there is technically enough difference, the two names are bound to be confused, and Owain should be consulted. The device has four layers and is very close to Danielle Christine des Briannes: Sable, on a bend invected Or another gules charged with a dove rising, wings addorsed, holding a lily argent, stalked and leaved vert. (passed in 1973).

NOTE: Name unacceptable. The Janissaries were militantly Moslem. It was not possible for a member to have a Christian name, as they were all given Arabic names. The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: Dürmast is not a valid German name. Try Durand, Durant, or Durmod. The proposition "von" takes the dative, and so it should be "von der Wanderlust." The device conflicts with Corrmacc na Connacht: Azure, On a pale argent a sword inverted gules.

NOTE: Brown bears on green is color on color.

NOTE: The device conflicts with the badge for Winter's Gate: Sable, a lily blossom Or.

NOTE: Gwydion was a Welsh god in the Mabinogion, and apparently is a variant of Odin. It can no longer be used in the SCA unless someone can show that it was used in period as a given name. Orfordson is not a valid usage. Use "of Orford." The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: This is four layers and it looks like arms of pretense or an augmentation.

NOTE: This is four layers. I. (and several members of the College) do not like the similarity this bears to the badge of the heralds. The hyphenated name is not proper usage for anything other than a sovereign state.

NOTE: This is not period style. Either draw a heraldic unicorn or else a horse, but not something in between. Place the charges in pale or in bend or two and one, but not as you have them. This is very close to Aleana Gorwydd Gwyn: Per bend sable and azure, a pegasus courant volant to sinister and in base a mullet of seven points argent.

NOTE: Sails may not normally be charged in the SCA. Removing the demi-sun causes the device to conflict with the Earls of Athol: Or, a lymphad sable with fire at the top of the mast. (Woodward, p. 368) and with MacDonald of Craig-na-Gower: Or, a galley sable. (Lyon Ordinary. (1893), p. 119).

NOTE: The dolphin was the badge of the Dauphin, the heir to the French throne. It was azure with gules fins, which is too close. Dolphins are heraldic by default. (natural must be specified) and are, in the SCA, embowed counter-embowed by default. Since a proper heraldic dolphin's colors are vert and gules, it is best to just blazon it as vert, finned gules.

NOTE: The tower and wreath on the field are color on color. Try putting the tower entirely on the saltire and using a laurel wreath Or. Having a charge slightly enhanced like this is not correct practice.

Raimon Selenarktos. Sable, in bend a compass star argent between the horns of a crescent bendwise sinister Or maintained by both forepaws of a polar bear statant erect argent.

NOTE: This is not a period arrangement and conflicts with Mylles: Sable, a bear erect argent, chained and muzzled Or. (Papworth).

NOTE: The black hand is the symbol of the Mafia and apparently was so in period. The combination of an Italian name. (Bari is a town in Italy) and the black hand is therefore not allowed. Change the color of the hand.

NOTE: This is both unbalanced and not a period arrangement.

NOTE: This is a landscape. It is certainly not a period style for a badge.

NOTE: Name unacceptable. Tirion is a city in The Lord of the Rings. It is also a word meaning "kind" or "gentle" in Welsh, but it doesn't seem to be a period given name. Please document it as a period given name, since a place name may not be used as a given name unless the submittor can prove that it was in fact so used in period. The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: Name and mon unacceptable. The name is not a correct Japanese name. The device violates Japanese heraldic principles. The word Kumao would not have been used as a given name, as a bear was one of the vulgar animals. The persona story is essentially impossible and we do not consider persona stories as evidence, anyway. Submissions stand or fall on their own merits. Delete the staff.

NOTE: The name conflicts with the Order of the Thistle in Scotland. Try the Order of the Tumbleweed. The thistle bush looks like a generic bush.

NOTE: This is metal on metal. This also looks like an augmentation.

NOTE: This is an ethnic joke submission. We do not register joke submissions. This, combined with the fimbriation plus the fact that slices of fruit were not, to my knowledge, used in heraldry, is too much to allow this to be registered.

NOTE: Name and arms unacceptable. You cannot take a significant place name from a book or from history and use it as a branch name, unchanged. I would accept the Shire of Happy Valley, as that is a descriptive name. The device conflicts with the Hartford Insurance Company. You will need to add the bordure.

NOTE: The name is not proper usage. You cannot use a place name as a given name, nor can you modify a place name to form a given name, unless you can show that it was actually used as a given name in period. The surname is not correct form for either Russian or Polish, and certainly a Pole would never have combined the two languages. The badge is not period style. The plate is not in a normal position. The monster is an odd combination and violates the Rule of Tincture in sinister base.

NOTE: Device unacceptable. This is overly complex. The part of the mane on top of the head is not of flames proper, and so the tinctures cannot be properly blazoned. It is very difficult to tell at a distance what the creature is. Make the mane vert, like the rest of the lion, so you can tell that the creature is a winged lion.

NOTE: Georgette is out of period. The use of French diminutives to form female link names out of male names came into regular use after our period, and Georgette itself did not occur in period. The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: Badge unacceptable. The bishop's mitre is the heraldic symbol for a bishop and should only be borne by a bishop. As there are no bishops allowed in the SCA, the bishop's mitre is hereby forbidden for use in the SCA. The badge is also overly complex for a badge, which in period did not look like a device anyway, being fieldless.

NOTE: Maker's mark unacceptable. We no longer register tinctureless badges as of May 1, 1983. This LoI came out after that date. You may use this rebus without registering it, as the College chooses not to deal with such emblems.

NOTE: Group name and badge unacceptable. The household name is not period usage for an abbey at all, and in fact is a joke name. We do not register religious jokes. The badge is far too busy. A paschal lamb registered in the SCA must use a plain banner. (The use of the cross of St. George is particularly inappropriate in Atenveldt, given the case of the Crusadenes.) Paschal lambs would be best borne of a single tincture, as that involves the least complexity.

NOTE: Arms unacceptable. The Board of Directors has ruled that new groups may not assume the name of a defunct branch, even if they are in the same area. As the arms are permanently registered under the old name, it follows that a new group may not adopt the arms of a defunct group.

NOTE: Since the arms could not be accepted, and since the College has voted to ban cloudless rainbows as being out of period, I therefore decline to register this badge, as the canton should choose a badge consistent with the new arms it will have to design.

NOTE: We do not allow devices or badges that appear to be impaled arms, except for the case where a household badge is the impaled arms of the lord and lady of the house.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. The name is not proper form. If you want Megan the White-Headed, it should properly be Megan Penwyn. (or Pengwyn). Meghan would be pronounced Meyan. The use of the capitalized Pen implies the meaning of Chief. Penguins were known in period. (Drake saw them when he passed through the Straits of Magellan.) We need the genus and species for proper animals. If you really want canting and a proper name, use the name Megan Penwyn and the device: Gules, an Emperor penguin statant to sinister proper and a chief argent. (Aptenodytes sp.) If you want the penguins known to Europeans throughout our period, use the Great Auk.

NOTE: This is not period style. It looks more like an inescutcheon. (in the late French style) issuant from chief charged with an oak tree, and thus it looks like a form of augmentation or arms of pretense. Most of the College objected to this. Branches must satisfy a higher standard of armorial quality than individuals. An oak tree on a vair bell right side up and not throughout would be acceptable. The acorns are not distinguishable.

NOTE: Badge unacceptable. This looks like the arms Azure, an oak tree eradicated argent, leaved and fructed Or, displayed on a shield of the late French style. As such, it conflicts with the city of Offenbach am Main: Azure, an oak tree eradicated and fructed argent, and with Wood: Azure, an oak tree eradicated Or. (Papworth, P. 1113).

NOTE: This conflicts with the U.S. Special Ammunition Support Command: Azure, a roundel invected argent.

NOTE: Name unacceptable. Thorondil is too close to Thorongil, the pseudonym adopted by Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. Choose a different given name. The device seems acceptable, if you widen the tressure and call it an orle.

NOTE: This was left off the 1979 Conclave printout. It was rejected by Mistress Karina because the blazon said "warhammer" and the emblazon showed a smith's hammer. (!). This needs to be resubmitted with the blazon matching the emblazon. I apologize on behalf of this office and urge all Principal Heralds to make sure there are no other submissions left out of the Conclave printout that are not already accounted for.

NOTE: The device conflicts through visual similarity to Count Jean de la Grand'Anse: Azure, in pale a natural dolphin naiant embowed argent and a sun Or.

NOTE: The saltire fitchy of two points at all four arms has a 90° angle between the points, as drawn in Fox-Davies' Art of Heraldry, plate X, figure 11. This is not what you have drawn. What you have is unblazonable. The anvil and crossbow are forced to be very small. Your device is also close to infringing upon the emblem of the paramedics or ambulance companies: A pale surmounted by a saltire couped azure.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. Spelling a name backwards is not a valid method for creating a new name and, in this case, Cire would be pronounced "Sire." The addition of El-Akrab looks odd.' The device conflicts with Edwin Bersark: Gules, a plate.

NOTE: Name unacceptable. The name conflicts with Idris Gawr, the famous magician and astronomer in Wales in the 7th century. "The Wise" is the sort of epithet usually ascribed to such people. Please adopt a different byname that does not have any connotations of magician or astronomer.

NOTE: Name unacceptable. If you want "wooded mountain," then use John de Mont Boisé. Or you could use John Mont de Forét. Using Jean instead of John would be better if you use a French byname.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. The name conflicts with John Wycliffe, the noted English theologian who translated the Bible into English. You cannot have charges surmounting bordures. You cannot have generic wings proper like this. The blazon gives no clue as to the color of the wings. The default case, in fact, would be argent, if anything. A lion proper is basically Or and thus cannot be on argent. The axe is not in a standard position and is metal on metal.

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. "Leric" is not a valid variant of Elric. Speltighe is not correct Anglo-Saxon form, as "tighe" is not Anglo-Saxon. The glove is not period style. All five fingers should be either clenched or extended. The mask on the bar on the fess on the field is four layers. The mask should show the fess beneath it through the mouth hole. The fireball is very small, and non-standard. The device is unbalanced, as there is no balancing charge in base. There are five different kinds of charges. Start over.

NOTE: The device conflicts with the Canton of Zurich: Per bend argent and azure. (Too bad; your submission was beautiful.) Try Per bend sinister fleury-counter-fleury. (You may have to use vert instead of azure to avoid conflict.).

NOTE: Name and device unacceptable. "Rigel" is the name of a star. It is not a period given name. The device has four layers and conflicts with Tatiana Nikolaevna Tumanova: Argent, on a pale endorsed vert, a unicorn's head couped at the shoulder Or, armed and crined argent.

NOTE: Name unacceptable. Tirion is a city in The Lord of the Rings. It is also a Welsh word meaning "kind" or "gentle," but it is not a period given name. The use of two epithets is unusual for Welsh. The device seems acceptable.

NOTE: The badge conflicts with Kevin Perigrynne's badge: Gules, on a heart or a falcon descending azure.

NOTE: The name conflicts with Angela of the Meadows. The device is color on color. This should never have gone out on an LoI. (We learn about color on color very early in heraldry.) All charges, including bordures and chiefs, must satisfy the Rule of Tincture in the SCA.

NOTE: This conflicts with Dointerp: Per pale sable and Or, a double-headed eagle displayed counterchanged. (Rietstaap).

NOTE: You cannot use "of the Laurel" in any language, unless you do belong to the Order of the Laurel. You could use the correct translation of Janette of the Laurel Tree. This would be more canting, anyway.

NOTE: Tacking the prefix Mor- onto the given name Gillian is not a valid name construction. Why not just use Gillian? The device would bc better if the pine boughs were indeed vert, as listed in the LoI, instead of proper, as shown on the form.

NOTE: Badge unacceptable. You have two separated charges, one a color and one a metal. This is not allowed for a fieldless badge. This badge is not heraldic. Have the hand hold the feather.