Category Archives: Week 19

Week Nineteen: Gallery of Arms TM

Wild Particle’s (Edible) Heraldic Crest

I went for a traditional shield-and-banner style, flanked by lightsabers in both red and green, these two colours being the customary hue of the Dark and Light side of the Force respectively, topped by a three-pointed star. On the shield itself the black kitty symbolises mysterious animal magnetism as well as [...]

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Week Nineteen: The Lizbt Coat of Arms

Somehow my Coats of Arms took on a seventies-photo-collage kind of feel. I can dig it.
A few notes on the objects and their symbolisation:

Monkeys in heraldry symbolise mimicry, buffoonery, cunning, satire, sage-like wisdom and magical powers.
Bunnies represent one who enjoys a peaceable and retired life, but please note here that this is an Evil Bunny, [...]

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Week Nineteen: Research Materials!

Super-Project-Lifer Xutraa has dug up some awesome Heraldic Research for all your last minute Heraldic Crest needs.
Hares and Rabbits – One who enjoys a peaceable and retired life.
Squirrel – Sylvan retirement being the delight of its bearer.
Hedgehog – Provident provider.
Beaver – Industry and perseverance.
Fox – One who will use all that he may posses of [...]

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Week Nineteen: Create Your Own Heraldic Crest

Halia’s Coat of Arms (created by @torak)

A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person (or group of people) and used by them in a wide variety of ways.  The art of designing, displaying, [...]

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