adrian-empire herald User Manual

- Refers to badges which have no background. Fieldless badges are useful for 

households to be made into pins or other jewelry to show a famous example of a fieldless badge 
belongs to the Prince of Wales: Three ostrich feathers issuant from behind a scroll with the words 
"Ich Dien". 

- The primary emblem of the Empire of Adria. Fleurs-de-lis take many forms: for 

modern examples, see the emblem of the NFL football team New Orleans Saints or the emblem 
of the Boy Scouts. There are some restrictions on fleurs-de-lis (see 

Article XIII.A

). 

- A subdivision of the Empire directly beholden to the 

Imperial Crown; a Kingdom, Archduchy, Duchy, or Shire. 

- A droplet shape. Gouttes have specific names in Blazon depending on their tincture: 

Argent = Goutte de larmes (tear drops) 
Or = Goutte d'or (gold) 
Gules = Goutte de sang (blood) 
Azure = Goutte d'eau (water) 
Vert = Goutte d'huile (olive oil) 
Sable = Goutte de poix (pitch) 
Purpure = Goutte de vin (wine). 

- A way of emblazoning a device using patterns of lines for use in engraving and other 

non-colored representations first used in England about 1623. No longer used in Adria. 

- Specialized display of an individual’s coat of arms after their death. 

- A 19th Century term for escutcheon. So called because the medieval shield resembled a 

"heater" or iron. 

- One who practices heraldry. With a lower-case "h", it is a generic term meaning anyone 

from the most junior purusivant to the Imperial Sovereign of Arms. With an upper-case "H", it is 
a specific rank in the College of Arms, denoting the herald serving a Duchy or a herald who has 
been raised in permanent rank from Pursuivant. 

- What heralds do. This includes such things as voice-heraldry (doing court and town 

cryer) and book heraldry (designing coats of arms). 

- One (1) way of marshalling arms, by squeezing one coat of arms onto the left half of 

the sheild to make room for another. 

- The Imperial Sovereign of Arms, Imperial Deputies, and the heralds 

and Sovereigns of Arms for each geographic chartered subdivision 

- A horizontal stripe with dags, used to represent the heir to a coat of arms. Married couples 

may marshal their arms and place a label across the whole for their children to wear. 

- An invention of the late Elizabethan period and popularized in the 18th 

and 19th Centuries, it is more pictorial than medieval heraldry, and is characterized by the 
depiction of natural scenes rather than the medieval stylization. Also called "pictorial" or "album 
cover" heraldry. It is not permitted in Adrian heraldry. 

- A copy of the presenter’s form which is not colored in, just like a Monday – 

Saturday newspaper comic strip. In heraldic terms, this is called a cartoon. 

- The diamond shape found in common decks of playing cards. In the 19th Century, it 

was thought that women should bear their arms on this shape because they didn't use weapons. In 
Adrian practice, anyone may display their arms on this shape if they so choose. 

- The practice of combining two or more individual devices on one banner or shield. 

Couples, married or not, may marshal their arms together, and Estate Holders and Ministers may 
marshal their arms with that of the Estate or Office they hold. See the Appendix for examples. 
Related terms, see 

Dimidiation

, 

Impaling

, and 

Quartering

. 

 

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