Xandreta Arms Request

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

My name is Xandreta da Luguvaliüm.

If it should so please the squirrel King of Arms, I hereby request the college's assistance in procuring arms for me and my lawful heirs.

My favorite color is burgundy.

[Hooligan]

From and for The Royal Talossan College of Arms

Azul Xandreta --

As Squirrel King of Arms, I am pleased to accept your request for assistance in designing arms. I now charge the Penzance Pursuivant, Dean of the College, with assigning one of the Fellows of the College to provide that assistance.

Rouge Lobster Herald
Squirrel King of Arms

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Azul !

In that I'm the Penzance Pursuivant, Dean of the College that was mentioned above.

Do you have a preference of which Fellow you would like to assist you in your Request?

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

Not really. Who's free?

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Jan 21, 2013 15:24:27 GMT -6 Xandreta da Luguvaliüm said:

Not really. Who's free?

I recently talked to the The Bartleby Pursuivant (Sir Cresti Siervicül) about working on a Request.

Everyone else is currently working on one.

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

Bartleby.... as in Bartleby the Scrivener?

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

Jan 21, 2013 15:36:53 GMT -6 Capt. Sir Mick Preston said:

Jan 21, 2013 15:24:27 GMT -6 Xandreta da Luguvaliüm said:

Not really. Who's free?

I recently talked to the The Bartleby Pursuivant (Sir Cresti Siervicül) about working on a Request.

Everyone else is currently working on one.

I'm not working on one. I haven't done one in a while, but I'll give it a go.

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

So I was thinkinging... masculy sable and sanguine, a bordure erminois, michaelengelo's pieta proper ;-)

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

Hmm... I'm not sure if we can put the Pietà on a Coat of Arms. There's definite precedent for putting Mary and Jesus and a whole bunch of other saints, but I'm not sure about the Pietà itself.
I'm also not sure if we can use sanguine; don't remember encountering it before. Will conduct further research.

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

Oh hey! I was kidding. You had mentioned that you were a touch rusty, and so I just thought of the most ridiculously obscure and complex blazon I could.

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

Haha. Okay, then. See how rusty I am?

So, what shall we put on it, then? Generally one puts things indicative of occupation, interests, or something that represents one's name. (For example, Princess Beatrice of York's arms have three bees on them: bee-thrice = Beatrice.)

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

I work as a dancer, and dance is really important to me, and maybe one day I'll be able to do it while staying clad. So perhaps something representative of dance? (St. Vitus maybe?)

Though I do like the masculy background, perhaps sable and gules?

[King John]

Masculy can look way cool, but masculy gules and sable wouldn't work because of the tincture rule. (Short version: Exactly one of the two tinctures needs to be argent or or.)

— Blanc Wolf

[Xandreta da Luguvaliüm]

So divided field can be color/color, but patterning must be color/metal. Got it!

But how would a color/metal pattern interact with the charge? Lets say, for example:

masculy sable and argent, St. vitus Or. (wouldn't the St. Vitus charge interfere with the argent in the msculy pattern... or if the charge were to be coloured instead... same problem?)

[Iustì Carlüs Canun]

You could blazon "Saint Vitus proper" and get around the rule.
Or I suppose we could put a pale down the middle. Haha.