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

[Craig Levin]

Diccon:

> 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.  

Thank you. Also, the main part of Corpora that lays out the part
of the heralds says that Laurel has to keep a record of armory
and names used in the SCA, and to set up ways of keeping things
straight. For the gory details, see Corpora.

> 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.

I don't know the particulars of your case, but I can say fairly
that I have argued a successful appeal from Golden Dolphin to
Laurel. Most heralds of my acquaintance are typically willing to
be convinced by suitably presented evidence.

Pedro