[antir-heralds] Award Name Question

[Ursula Whitcher]

> If that seems confusing, Ursula has distilled it into a wonderful
> article that I have bookmarked and consulted many, many times trying
> to create my own Orders and Awards:
> http://www.doomchicken.net/~ursula/sca/onomastics/registerorder.html

Thanks!

That article is also on the SCA website now:

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/order/registerorder.html

> 
> So, if you want to name your shiny bit "Order of the Raven's Blood",
> you'd go looking through the meta-patterns that the cover letter
> indicates are acceptable style. A raven's not a deity or a saint,
> it's not a place or a virtue, and "raven's blood" doesn't have the
> name of the founder in it. This leaves you with "objects of religious
> veneration" and "heraldic charge". I think you'd have a hard time
> proving that "raven's blood" is a heraldic charge, and I'm also not
> quite sure that you could pass it off as an object of religious
> veneration.
> 
> A fix might be "Order of the Blood and Raven", though I am unsure if
> that fits the meta-patterns either.

A drop of blood (goutte de sang) is a heraldic charge.  Order of the 
Drop of Blood is clear of conflict, though awfully reminiscent of the 
Goutte de Sang; Order of the Raven and Drop of Blood is obviously clear 
of conflict, but really long.  Unfortunately Order of the Red Raven is 
taken (twice: there's both an order and a heraldic title which conflict).

Ursula Georges.