[Artemisia] Re: Heraldic Qustions

[drchelm]

there is no heraldic sumptuary to prevents a herald from wearing a 
green-with-crossed-trumpets cloak while on duty as a herald in 
Artemisia, to the best of my knowledge.

Period practice is good too, Jehane (and company).  Period practice is 
a tabard with the arms of the noble or royalty you're working for with 
that noble's or royal's arms on it, on all four tabs.  In some 
kingdoms, they make non-titled persuivants rotate that tabard 90 
degrees so the short tabs are to the front - an actual period practice 
in the late Gothic - but personally I find the practice too 
exclusionary for my tastes, and I doubt that any Artemisian would ever 
stoop to be that un-mellow.

So if you were heralding personally for the baron and/or baroness of M 
I's, you would look tres spiff and the height of heraldic fashion in a 
tabard with the baronial peacock arms on all four tabs.  (I have a ton 
of documentation on heraldic display in the house, Jehane, if you want 
to eyeball some period examples of herald-wear).

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