Middle Kingdom Pursuivants Handbook 2nd Edition - Midrealm ...

Internal Letters of Intent*—Letters written by the Middle Kingdom’s submissions herald to describe thesubmissions currently under consideration within the kingdom. The commenting members of the College ofHeralds are given time to comment on the submissions before the Dragon Herald decides whether to putthem on an External Letter of Intent or return them for more work. This is usually abbreviated ILoI.Inverted*—Turned upside down.Issuant*—Issuing or projecting out of.Langued*—Describes the tincture of an animal’s tongue.Laurel—In these rules, the Laurel Sovereign of Arms, who is the principal heraldic office of the Society and thehead of the College of Arms. Laurel is ultimately responsible for seeing that the duties of the heralds, asdefined in the Corpora of the Society, are fulfilled.† Laurel can also mean the Order of the Laurel, which is a Society-wide peerage award, or a member of thatOrder.Legal Name—This term is used to distinguish the formal name a person has outside the Society from theSociety name.Letters of Acceptance and Return—A monthly letter in which the Laurel Sovereign of Arms publicizesdecisions on recent submissions. This is usually abbreviated LoAR. The LoAR are available by subscriptionfrom the Laurel office.Letters of Comment—Letters written by members of the College of Arms to the Laurel Sovereign of Arms, todiscuss current submissions and advise on the acceptability of the names and armory that are beingconsidered. This is usually abbreviated LoC.Letter of Intent—Letters written by Principal Heralds to describe the submissions from their kingdoms. TheCollege of Arms is given time to comment on the submissions before the Laurel Sovereign of Arms decideswhether to register them or return them for more work. This is usually abbreviated LoI.Line of Division—A line or set of lines that cuts the field or a charge into pieces that have different tinctures.Lines of division are named after the ordinaries they follow, like lines per pale, per fess, per bend, and persaltire, or have their own names like checky, lozengy, quarterly, and so forth.Lines of Partition—A description of the shape of a line of division, or of the line that defines the edge of acharge. Lines of partition are named to identify their shape, like embattled, wavy, indented, engrailed and soon. A line of partition may be used on the edge of a charge, where it is called an edge partition, as on a “paleinvected.” An internal line of partition is between the tinctures when an element is divided, as in “per paleembattled argent and gules.”Livery Colors*—The dominant color and metal on a device. Use of one’s livery colors is neither required norrestricted in the Society.LoC*—See Letters of Comment.Lozenge*—A diamond shape, used either as a charge or as the shape of the shield on which a device isdisplayed.Maintained Charges—Small objects that are held by an animate charge are said to be maintained, like “a lionrampant maintaining a sword.” Maintained charges are usually too small to count towards difference.Marshalling*—Combining two or more devices into a single device to show one’s ancestry.Masoned*—Having lines of a contrasting tincture in a pattern resembling the mortar in a brick wall.Matronymic—A name given to offspring to indicate the name of the mother. The son of a Scottish womannamed “Cait” might take the matronymic of “Mac Caite.”Metal—In Society herald, the metals are Argent and Or (Silver or White, and Gold or Yellow). The furs thatuse metals as underlying tinctures, like Ermine and Erminois, are treated like metals for contrast.Modern—For Society purposes, “modern” is anything after 1600 a.d.170 Middle Kingdom Pursuivants Handbook2nd Edition - 2002