Coats of Arms

Phaestus

I'm a bit late to the party - been a bit indisposed of late - but I just wanted to voice my support for this in general. These look pretty good! As Amunet pointed out, the SCA rules and Achaean rules differ quite a bit in places, and while both are fun to learn do keep that in mind. Argent is silver in Achaea, so if you want to be accurate then stick with that. If you just feel like imagining that your silver swords are white, though, then by all means do. That's the beauty of a text game, after all, but you won't slip around the in-game proposal system and tincture rules by insisting that white is a colour so you can have white on gold if you feel like...

 

Rakon and Anaidiana are wonderfully knowledgeable resources as long-time master heralds, and sounds like Ginmund knows what he's talking about, too. As always, if I can help with anything contentious, just let me know.

Berenene

Titonus said:

Berenene said:

I tried doing mine ages ago, but I couldn't find a staff.  Does anyone know or have one?

A staff for what?

Also, thank you everyone for your input!

Well, my arms are "Argent, a staff Sable and a crown Gules."

The staff I've been trying to find would be like a wooden mages staff type thing, the closest I think that would work would probably be Asclepius' staff, but without the snake twining around it.

Nellaundra

Holy crap that thing is awesome!  Thanks, @Kresslack!

Ginmund

I like playing around with arms that have no or very simple charges (hence Ginmund's arms in my profile pic), and so have found Blazonry Server quite fun. It can't support most charges beyond mullets and roundels but it's good for creating fields. And unlike Achaean heraldry, counterchanging- a personal favorite of mine- is supported!

Ginmund (I) wrote a rather detailed guide to heraldry specifically for Wardens, so it's only available in the House library. He could probably be persuaded to create a version for the city library after I've finished a few work projects.   

Amunet

@Phaestus, humour us and make counterchanging possible! I get requests for it all the time, and I've dealt with more than one fit of rage upon telling people it isn't possible.

Ginmund

Amunet said:

@Phaestus, humour us and make counterchanging possible! I get requests for it all the time, and I've dealt with more than one fit of rage upon telling people it isn't possible.

Back when heraldry was new, I had an email convo with Clementius in which he said the system as set up could not handle counterchanging and could not be changed to make it so. I quit Achaea for four years shortly thereafter.

Kenway

I realize I haven't actually gotten one yet but I couldn't resist.

Phaestus

Ginmund said:

Amunet said:

@Phaestus, humour us and make counterchanging possible! I get requests for it all the time, and I've dealt with more than one fit of rage upon telling people it isn't possible.

Back when heraldry was new, I had an email convo with Clementius in which he said the system as set up could not handle counterchanging and could not be changed to make it so. I quit Achaea for four years shortly thereafter.

Yeah, it's unfortunately still not possible... the heraldry code is a bit, err,.... *diplomatic trailing off* It's no reason to rage quit for four years though. Please stay. Also get knighted!

Amunet

Ugh. I'd heard that rumour and had hoped it wasn't true! That's unfortunate. Thank you for the information, though.

Titonus

So, more like this(I know the edges are choppy, shut up about it)?

Berenene

In a bout of...something...I've finally pieced mine together. It's probably not "correct" but meh.

Argent, a staff Sable and a crown Gules

Titonus

Very nice

Reikh

More people should put up some pics of their coats of arms, these are cool.

I got my basic knowledge of heraldic whatnots from the Internet, but in a non-visual way. http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimbley.htm has no images, which I think really helped me to visualise Achaea's ones.

That said, I've just spent a while with a notepad and pencil drawing out a load of the CoAs from the game. So many really good ones.

Korben

So here is Korben's:



It took me a while to find an appropriate black lotus image for it last night, and when I did the forums crashed.

Ruth

This took mega-long to do on MS Paint, but this is roughly what Ruth's CoA looks like.

Per pale Argent and Sanguine, a fret Sable between a fleur-de-lis in fess Gules and a falcon displayed sinister

The meanings of the different symbols seem to fit Ruth pretty well too, though I'm not too sure how reliable this site is.

Mordric

Amed's arms:

Quarterly Ermines and Purpure, a saltire engrailed Argent between a falcon displayed contourny in chief Sable and a wolf sejeant in base Sable.

It might be hard to see the charges.

Not sure why the photo won't post.

Jonners

This is Jonners Coat of Arms. 'Per fess indented, Argent and Sanguine, a butterfly volant in chief Sable and an open book in base Or.' The butterfly is a bit more simplistic than I'd like but it's the best I could find and I suck at the visual arts.

Draqoom

Per chevron Sable and Azure, a scorpion in base Argent and a lotus in chief Argent.

Berenene

A little bit OOC, but still on the CoA topic, I need some help.

I was flicking through some files on my pc, and happened across my family CoA, but the only problem is that it only has the picture.  Is anyone here able to put it in correct heraldry terms?  The closest I got was something like Party per cross azure and argent, but that wasn't right or all of it.

Anaidiana

@berenene :

Quarterly, Argent and Azure per pale and barry with an eagle displayed in chief Sable; Argent, a cross crosslet Or surrounded by four passion cross of the same....is about as close as I can figure. 

The northeast and southwest panels break the primary rule of (achaean) heraldry in that it's metal on metal and I can tell you right now that the whole would not be allowed ig whatsoever. We can't do quarterly in that amount of detail and we're missing the cross charges.

Berenene

Thanks @Anaidiana.

Anaidiana

my pleasure, @berenene !

Liyane

I recently became determined to design a coat of arms. I've enjoyed seeing others designs here and decided to upload my design. The wolf is probably too stylized for true heraldry, but it was such an awesome image I had to go with it. As a classic over thinker, I've literally spent weeks on this and made my best stab at describing it based on what I've read in Heraldrywho. Now just to have it formally made

Krypton

The Achaean description would be:

Vert, a wolf's head erased contourny Argent within an orle of the second.

Bann

I figure Bann's looks kinda similar to this...



Except the print is in gold and it has little talons at the end of each toe. Probably tilted a bit more to the left, too.

Krypton

You won the dog show!

Bann

@Krypton - DIE!

Liyane

Thanks for the correction. I ended up flipping the image to keep the word count down a bit. 

Bronislav

I came across this thread, and it kind of lit my fuse. SO!

This is the heraldry for the Ophidia Zviera clan: Vair, a sword Gules and a serpent involved Or

Liyane

So I'm a liar. I didn't end up going with that design due to a reincarnation (two actually) as well as rethinking my background. So after 10+ iterations here is the actual (and as of 5 minutes ago: finalized) design:

The arms of Liyane: Per chevron Vert and Argent, a pair of wings in chief of the second and a runeblade in base. In modern Achaean: A silver pair of wings positioned near the top and a runeblade positioned near the bottom, on a green and silver background divided into two by a chevron-shaped line.

A huge shout out to @Aelyn for putting up with my indecisiveness and repeated redesigns.