A tree blasted

["David H Ritterskamp" <dhritter@dpcmail.dukepower.com>]

  Alfredo wrote:

Greetings unto the habitues of the Merry Rose!  As a newcomer 
to these shores (excuse me, I mean beaches) I have a question 
about some of the heraldry in this fair Kingdom.
     
I happened to be looking at the on-line armorial the other 
day when two pieces of armory caught my eye:
     
    Myrkewoode, Barony of
        Ermine, a tree blasted and a chief wavy sable.
    Lochmere, Barony of
        Ermine, a tree blasted and eradicated and a chief wavy 
        within a bordure sable.
     
Now, I think I know what these would look like; "blasted" means 
all the leaves are gone, and "eradicated" means the roots are 
showing, and I imagine all the little black ermine-tails would 
look a little like more trees in the distance, so it would seem 
to be a hilly, woody, wintry, nighty, landscape.
     
My questions are two:
     
 How is it that two separate Baronies (possibly in two separate 
 Kingdoms) have such badges or devices that are so similar to one 
 another?
     
 What do these symbols signify, and who bears them?
     
-- Alfredo
     
Alfredo:

As I understand it (somewhat hazily), the Barony of Myrkewoode was the 
very beginnings of the Kingdom of Atlantia some years back.  If the 
device is still current, then I suspect it's because the barony in 
question is now in the East Kingdom; if the barony is no longer 
current, then the barony of Lochmere has taken the device as its 
own.(geographical proximity and desire on the part of the group at that 
time)

As for what the device signifies, I suspect it has something to do with 
the fact that winters in Lochmere are not nice things.  But I doubt 
that the ermine tails were meant to be trees in the background, 
although I'm purely speculating.

J. Blackbow

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