[MR] Proposal for reducing the backlog of scrolls withhelpfromBarons/esses and Heralds

[Vels inn Viggladi]

>Point Being: a culture-styled depiction doesn't to a single thing to 
>address
>the fact that the entire milieu is incorrect for a lot of peoples for a
>majority of the period.

(yes, I'm replying to myself)

First, I'd like to apologize for going off tangentially with my last post.

Overall: It's a Swiftian concept, but overhauling the CoA so as to allow a 
wider variety of heraldic display beyond what is correct for 14th century 
French and English landholders would help in getting more registrations of 
heraldry, and thus, less of a backlog.
I'm not suggesting expand to _every_ form of personal display used over the 
thousand or so years, because then we'd get into people arguing over who has 
the rights to wear a red tunic with olive and blue herringbone trews, with a 
light blue garter on their left arm... Just gets ludicrous.

However, expanding to include other similar styles of deriving heraldic 
imagery other than 14th+ century Angevin-landowning-descended rules would 
provide an increase in registerable personal heraldry. Adding a little line 
on the device registration for "Which cultural heraldic style is this 
governed" is minor paperwork. Getting a body of heralds studied in several 
different styles of medieval heraldry is another matter.

Alternatively, if someone is of the determination that they have no 
interest, by their study or any other reason, to have personally registered 
heraldry, hand them a promissory and a medallion or other dubis if it's 
appropriate and take them off the list of those needing "formal" scrolls. If 
they want one later and have registered heraldry, they can commission one.

Not to say anyone in particular would like these ideas, but they are ideas 
that may work.



Vels

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