[antir-heralds] Assistance needed - traheaern01

[chrisact at qwickconnect.net]

Britt wrote:
>> Having read the responses through Teceangl's of ~2:45 PM, I have to ask
>> --- am I the only person who thinks the field is *purpure*?!?? Gules??
>> Not to my eyes. YMMV, of course.
>>     
>
> This is why a wholly electronic submissions process will never happen.
>  On my screen it's pinkish and looks like red colored pencil.
>
>
>   
>> Note that chiefs are never covered by throughout charges (nor are
>> bordures), but everything else is (at least, according to works of
>> mundane heraldry I've read, I assume a base would be). For greater
>> precision, one could change to "...vert, surmounted by a sea dragon
>> rampant throughout..."
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> I do not htink we allow peripheral ordinaries to be surmounted by any
> charges other than ordinaries and peripheral ordinaries.  I'll have to
> go find that/those precedent(s), though.
>   

Would you, please? I'm in the middle of a windstorm, and may lose power 
any moment, or I'd take a look myself.

Frankly, to my eyes this looks fine; a charge overlapping a base is 
something I've seen before, so I have no objections. That, however, is 
my opinion, and worth what you paid for it. ;-)

>> BTW, minor note: the base needs to have its bottom stripe the opposite
>> tincture from the top one. Right now, it's a base wavy Or charged with 3
>> bars wavy vert. ;-)
>>     
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> Doesn't matter with a ford or a fountain, actually.  Or any number of
> traits above five.
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Ah? Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. :-)

> - Teceangl
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