RE: Heraldry questions

[jtrigg@softworkscc.com]

Poster: jtrigg@softworkscc.com

Actually, the emblazon (the picture) is what gets registered.  (One   
frequent comment about the rules is "you can't blazon your way out of a   
conflict".  This means that if there is a valid blazon which causes your   
device to conflict with someone else's, then the device must be   
returned.)  I'm not 100% sure why the Laurel office requires a specific   
size ratio, but (as I work with the Kingdom Submissions Herald) I can   
tell you that if it had been slightly larger all around or slightly   
smaller all around, we would have sent it on.  The problem was that it   
was wider but shorter than it should have been, which meant that the   
ratios of what subordinate parts should look like were not accurate.

Hope this helps; if you have further questions and don't want to bother   
the Merry Rose with them, feel free to write me at my personal email   
address: jtrigg@hoflink.com

In service to the College of Heralds,
Blaise de Cormeilles

 -----Original Message-----
From: owner-atlantia@adm.csc.ncsu.edu   
[mailto:owner-atlantia@adm.csc.ncsu.edu] On Behalf Of Gina
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 9:57 AM
To: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Heraldry questions


Poster: Gina <rhiannon-of-berra@mindspring.com>

<shaking my head> I'll never understand the heraldry rules :(  I've
submitted my device twice now, and I'm still no closer to getting it
passed.  The first was for a redraw (my unicorns weren't "heraldric"
enough, the second was because we used a scanned computer form we
created from the original form we had and the shields weren't the right
size and dimension (they weren't off by much, and you could still tell
what the device was).  I understand the need for standards and
evrything, but if there are no conflicts, the picture is readable and
the blazon matches the picture, why not pass it?

I thought the pictures were to explain the blazon and nothing else.  If
this is wrong, I apologize, if it is correct, then why spend so much
time when the meaning can be detected from the drawing as presented?
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