Fleur-de- not a lobster part 2

[alysten]

Ok, so I think I have something that will work better.  It is in the English style, in pairs of threes, not marshaling.



Because I can see how that design could become "fleur-de-something...".

Comments

[math5.livejournal.com]

In this specific case we're OK because sable, with nothing on it, doesn't appear to be anybody's arms.
If it was charged with something other than fleur de lys then it would have the appearance of marshaling.

[alysten.livejournal.com]

Can some one explain "marshaling?"

[math5.livejournal.com]

marshalling is putting together the arms of several people on the same device.
You can see some visual example there: http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/marshalling.html
Example of construction there: http://armorialblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/marshallingtable.jpg
Or, for an extreme example http://www.bloodinbloodout.nl/img/system009.gif
It's not allowed because it appears to be a claim (I'm the progeny of so and so)

[aryll.livejournal.com]

A plain sable field can't be anyone's arms, SCA doesn't register plain fields.

[math5.livejournal.com]

Except for vert: this would be the flag of Lybia.

[aryll.livejournal.com]

Oh, true, forgot about them. Ermine too, it's Brittany's. Ok, we don't register plain fields for us. Mundanes get to cheat. :p

[math5.livejournal.com]

You're right about Brittany.
And the mundanes don't even ask us what we think! :)