Coats of Arms

[deguerra]

Ahem. In keeping with econ's spirit of just popping in as if we'd never been gone, I'd like to give you all the opportunity to pester me for coats of arms again, if you would like them.

For those of you who I've played with in LotR and to a lesser extent KotR, it should all be business as usual: throw your crazy ideas my way and I shall try to make you happy

For those of you who are new, I like designing coats of arms for the various factions and/or individuals in these games. Doing so is mostly a sticking together of already existing parts of coats of arms, changing a few colours around, pretending I did a lot of work and having a reasonably large and completely disorganised thread. For an idea of how it worked (well...mostly worked) in LotR have a look at this thread: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=104139

Now to get your inspirations up, I would suggest the following links:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...raldic_figures (and its subcategories)

and especially: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca..._arms_elements

Basically, images in .SVG format are easiest to work with and edit. Other things are possible, and I'm happy for you to throw whatever you want at me, but I make no promises.

Now for our very first KotF Coat of Arms:

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The idea is the larger one can be used wherever, and the smaller can go in your signature. So fire away if you want.

At the risk of cluttering this up already, I've come up with some templates:

First of all, here are the historic Arms for our four Houses and the royal family. I quite like these actually, they are nice and varied.

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Capetins


Burgundy


Brittany


Aquitaine


Lorraine


I suppose the best way of combining these with something more personal would be to use them as a subshield, ie:

As for ranks, pretty much as below (ignore the different sizes for now):

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King


Heir


Prince


Duke


Count


Baron


Knight

Finally, for some basic shapes, just because most of our stuff has been geometrically similar so far:

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