[antir-heralds] CC: leonine sagittary

[Ursula Whitcher]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, chrisact at qwickconnect.net wrote:

> Ursula Whitcher wrote:
>> I'd appreciate help conflict-checking:
>>
>> Vert, a leonine sagittary Or and a chief potenty Or semy-de-lis azure.
>>
>> I checked Monster - Centaur and didn't find anything close.  Are there
>> other categories I should be looking at?
>>
>> Ursula Georges.
> I hope you don't mind if I get prolix, in the hopes others can either
> learn from what I do, or any mistakes I make (which will be corrected,
> likely by Teceangl.  ;-) )
>
>
> First, a small correction to the blazon. There's no need to have the
> tincture twice in a row like that. :-)
>
> Better would be "Vert, a leonine sagittary and a chief potenty Or
> semy-de-lys azure." (NB: the spelling of semy-de-lys I just used seems
> to be overwhelmingly preferred in the Ordinary---135 times to 17 for all
> other spellings. Use that info as you wish.)

Does your blazon convey unambiguously that only the chief has the semy?

> There is one BIG problem still remaining: the sagittary's posture is
> unknown, and there is no default posture for sagittaries nor centaurs
> (v. the CoA Glossary (http://www.sca.org/heraldry/coagloss.html) which
> gives all the default postures); in fact, there's not even a default
> posture for a horse!

As I recall, the lion part is passant.  The human part is drawing a bow, 
of course.

Ursula Georges.