I come back to you with a delicate matters of heraldry in Flanaess - as I'm and my boyfriend watch lately "Game of Thrones" series with many fantasy aristocracy "details" and I have prepared royalty NPC to be freed in the dungeon my players explore - I need advice. The young lord is my own made Sir Traian Emondav, son of Resbin Dren Emondav, ruler of March Sterich. The thing is I don't want players to know "oh, he is the heir of Sterich March", only when they understand his coat of arms ( or make Herald check ).
With this comes other thing - in "Game of Thrones" the major houses are shortly described by the sigil, that is simple coat of arms. In this Lannisters are White Lions, Starks are Grey Wolfs, Greyjoys are Gold Kraken etc. I wanted to implant this to our Greyhawk games. The problem is that crest of Keoland looks to alike as the Sterich one:
Keoland
Sterich
So if Keoland ruling House is "Black Lions", who would be described Sterich House? "Black-Red Lions" is too long to pronounced in Polish on game session as "quick coat of arms".
Last edited by wyrdhamster on Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:28 pm; edited 1 time in total
'Variegated' is a word in English meaning 'of two or more colors', sometimes associated with the leaves of plants. It might work for you, if you can convert it to a Polish word, so that you have:
The variegated lion.
When I entered 'variegated' into an English to Polish online dictionary, I got the following (though I have no idea what their individual meanings are ):
I made up a coat of arms that was being used by the Marchioness in my Sterich campaign. It was a combination of the coat of arms of her home house (Emondav, from Sasserine IMC) and that of Sterich. You could use it or something similar with Traian to throw the players off a little bit. Here it is --
Thanks, SirXaris1 and smillan_31. Probably I will not used Marchioness coat of arms now, as to not over complicate first heraldry "puzzle", but would used it if they come to her in Istivin - one of PCs is Istivin Guild Mage, and if Traian subplot goes wrong they maybe need to escort him to capital. [/b]
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