Unto the AEthelmearc College of Arms, greetings from the Heronter Heralds!
Herein, our comments on ILoI AE116 on this feast of St. David, patron saint of Wales and fishermen
2: Æthelmearc, Kingdom of - New Order Name "Order of the Golden Thorn"
I
think that "Gold" and "Silver" are really overused in order and award
names. Almost any other tincture is used less than half a dozen times
in order names, but gold and silver are used over 30 times each!I'd
much rather see us take a page from the Green Beret or the Scarlet
Pimpernel and h ave this registered
as "The Crimson Thorn" or something similar
-- Dagonell
3: Aíbell ingen Chernacháin - Resub Device
"Argent,
a dragon displayed sable maintaining a chalice and a needle Or threaded
sable and on a chief triangular azure a decrescent argent."
No
conflicts found. Teceangl Ounce says just about everything we could
say about this device. And you're already aware it has a complexity
count of nine.
5: Caitlin Stedefast - New Name & New Device
"Purpure, a triskellion of unicorn heads reversed argent, a bordure argent mullety of six purpure."
Clear of:
Name: Morgaine MacDaniel de la Rose
Date: July 1999
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: Purpure, a triquetra inverted argent.
(1 point for inversion, 2 points for charged bordure)
Name: Olaf Hilditönn
Date: March 1999
Kingdom: Trimaris
Type: Device
Blazon: Sable, a triquetra argent, a bordure argent pellety.
(1 point for field, 1 point for type and tincture of tertiary)
8. Finnr jafnkollr - Resub Device
"Gules, in bend a merlin rising contourny sustaining an axe bendwise sinister Or."
We're
not certain the locative "in bend" is either necessary or appropriate.
The emblazon would still be identical without it. We consider the axe
to be a co-primary rather than a maintained charge.
Clear of:
Name: Constantinople, Emperor of
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Laurel
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a double-headed eagle Or.
Comments: (Important non-SCA arms)
(1 for posture, 1 for addition of axe)
Name: Guillermo Diego Andrés Alcazar del Halcón
Date: April 1994
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon:
Gules, a falcon rising contourny, wings displayed, hooded, belled, and
jessed Or within a bordure Or semy of roses azure.
(0 for field, 0
for hood, bells and jesses, 1 for removal of bordure, 1 for addition of
axe, 0 for posture, however we're uncertain how the bird can be both
rising and wings displayed) **squeek!**
Name: Olof Gudmundsson
Date: August 1994
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, an eagle striking between three mullets Or.
(1 for striking vs rising, 2 for 3 mullets vs 1 axe)
Name: Owain of Corn Valley
Date: January 2001
Kingdom: An Tir
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, a peregrine falcon rising wings displayed Or maintaining in both talons a halberd bendwise sable.
(1 for contourney, 1 for weapon tincture) **squeek!**
Name: Sasha Dmitrievich Dozortsev
Date: December 1994
Kingdom: Caid
Type: Device
Blazon: Gules, an osprey striking between in chief two crescents Or.
(1 for striking vs rising, 2 for 2 crescents vs 1 axe)
Name: Timmeke Haakonson of Nordheim
Date: January 2001
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: Gules, a falcon striking Or, in sinister chief a mullet argent.
Comments: (For Haakonstead)
( for striking vs. rising, 2 for white star vs yellow axe)
10. Hrafna-Erlendr inn rauði - New Name & New Device
"Per pale indented argent and gules, a raven maintaining a tankard counterchanged."
Clear of:
Name: Fekete Holló Noémi
Date: September 1995
Kingdom: Outlands
Type: Device
Blazon: Per bend sinister argent and sable, a raven close counterchanged
between four roundels two and two counterchanged azure and argent.
(1 for field, 1 for bird tincture, 1 for secondaries)
Name: Mathilda die Knochenrichterin
Date: March 1997
Kingdom: West
Type: Device
Blazon: Per pale argent and sable, a raven close counterchanged.
(1 for field, 1 for bird tincture, 0 for tankard) **squeek!**
11. Isabella of Sylvan Glen - New Name & New Device
"Or, in saltire a rapier inverted and a rose gules slipped and leaved vert, a bordure purpure."
Blazon does not match emblazon. Make it "a rapier inverted sable".
13. Leiðólfr grímr - New Device
"Argent, a wolf rampant sable and in chief three bones gules."
Clear of:
Name: Michel Wolffauer
Date: January 2003
Kingdom: East
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a wolf rampant per fess gules and sable.
(1 for wolf tincture, 1 for bones)
Name: Philip Dyemoke
Date: March 1975
Kingdom: Not listed
Type: Device
Blazon: Potent, a wolf rampant sable.
(1 for field, 1 for bones)
14. Marcus Claudius Cincinnatus - New Name & New Device
"Vert, a lotus blossom in profile within a bordure Or."
Possible conflict:
Name: Minowara Kiritsubo
Date: December 1982
Kingdom: Atlantia
Type: Badge
Blazon: Vert, a calla lily blossom proper within a bordure Or.
Comments: (For Eleanor Aison of Devon)
We're
leaving the point count on this one to you. PicDic shows the default
position for lilies is in profile, and while Google images shows that
calla lilies have a different profile from heraldic lilies, they also
show the 'proper' tincture for them is white, yellow, pink or purple.
15. Padraig au'Chaeleichair - New Name & New Device
"Sable, a lightning bolt bendwise argent between two quinces slipped and leaved Or."
We've
been following the quince discussion on the boards, but have nothing
significant to contribute. A quick grep on the oanda.txt file shows
that quinces that never been registered before. Is that going to be a
problem?
16. Phelan the Wayfarer - New Name & New Badge
"Per chevron inverted azure and gules, an increscent, a decrescent and a wolf ululant argent."
Blazon does not match emblazon. Line of division is "per chevron", not inverted. Possible reblazon:
"Per chevron azure and gules, in chief an increscent and a decrescent in base a wolf ululant argent."
17. Raven Whitehart - New Name & New Device
"Per chevron embowed argent and vert, two ravens purpure and in base a stag salient argent."
Does the field division look abased to you?
18. Sampson Feldman - New Name & New Device
"Per chevron throughout argent and sable, two mallets inverted sable and a lion's head cabossed Or."
Clear of:
Name: Murdoch Bayne
Date: October 1999
Kingdom: AEthelmearc
Type: Device
Blazon: Per chevron ermine and vert, in base a lion's head cabossed Or.
(1 for field, 1 for mullets)
19. Suzanne Angelique Moscherosh - New Name & New Device
"Per bend sinister argent and chequy azure and argent, a fleur-de-lys azure."
Blazon does not match emblazon. As drawn, it's "Per bend sinister argent and lozengy azure and argent, a fleur-de-lys azure."
Clear of:
Name: Blanche Brerecliffe
Date: July 2004
Kingdom: Middle
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a fleur-de-lys, a chief trefly counter-trefly azure.
(1 for field, 1 for addition of chief)
Name: Juliane de Vivonne
Date: May 2003
Kingdom: Meridies
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a fleur-de-lys azure within a bordure quarterly sable and azure.
(1 for field, 1 for addition of bordure)
Name: Ysabeau Marie d'Auvergne
Date: December 2003
Kingdom: Trimaris
Type: Device
Blazon: Argent, a fleur-de-lis and a chief embattled azure.
(1 for field, 1 for addition of chief)
In service
Dagonell Whitehorn
Cigfran Heronter
Harold the Herald