About a year ago, I decided I wanted to register a device (at that point, no AoA, so it would’ve just been a device and not arms – now it’s arms!). With a lot of help from the local herald geek in my barony (Hi Melissa!) – who really gets credit for this one, as it was her idea – I picked something that was simple, period, and which had a lot of visual interest without being busy or covered with “thingies” (I like the thingies on some sets of arms? But I couldn’t think of any thingies that I liked and which represented me without being too busy).
Anyway – it passed Kingdom about 6 months back, with complements from one of the people that is notorious for being grouchy about non-period arms. I figured that was a good sign.
I found out this morning that it passed Laurel Sovereign at Arms, again with complements, and the device is officially “mine”.
Per pale azure and argent a chevron rompu counterchanged
What that means?
- Per pale means it’s divided in half from top to bottom
- azure and argent means blue and white/silver
- a chevron rompu is the shape (click for a plain chevron rompu)
- counterchanged means the colors swap places across the center line
My persona – Anne atte Rydeforde (basically Anne who lives by the reedy ford) – is a late 14th century lower noblewoman. She’s of enough stature to have pretty dresses… but not enough to have very many of them. I think this suits both of us just fine.
very pretty!
Very lovely. And it looks surprisingly simple. Some of our heralds refer to that as “a good parking job”. Carefully placed to be 2 points away for 6-8 other submissions.
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