[MR] Greetings, thanks, and notice: a heraldic question

[richardfitzgilbert at jcsussman.org]

Greetings from Richard Fitzgilbert!

Those are the herald's rules.  I prefer the period practices.  Put together
some arms that follow period practice and don't conflict with anyone you
know about and then start using them.  

If you later find out that someone has been using something that would be
confused with yours, whoever started using theirs first gets to keep using
their and the other has to make some modification.  

Of course, there's nothing that says you can't register the arms at the same
time.  Knowledgeable heralds can be a great help with period heraldic
practices as well as the well known SCA heraldry.  

Personally, I refuse to allow inexplicable rulings from people I've never
met deter me from using the heraldry (or name) that I'd like just because
they say that I can't.  Yeah, I've been burned too.

Yours in Service to Atlantia,
Diccon