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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drammattex" data-source="post: 4240380" data-attributes="member: 55363">- The tools to create them are part of the 2008 March Annual: <a href="http://sub.profantasy.com/2008/march08.html" target="_blank">http://sub.profantasy.com/2008/march08.html</a>Take a look at the gallery & click on the heraldry images to get a general idea of what you can do.- They can go by proper heraldic rules, as pedantry dictates. Resources and general guidelines are provided (as well as the apology that the short mapping pdf cannot cover the breadth of detail inherent in traditional heraldry). Plus, there are some great online resources a Google search away.<a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16273/16273-h/16273-h.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16273/16273-h/16273-h.htm</a><a href="http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/sId./kbId.10/title.Ordinaries+of+Heraldry/qx/knowledgebase.htm" target="_blank">http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/sId./kbId.10/title.Ordinaries+of+Heraldry/qx/knowledgebase.htm</a><a href="http://www.modernheraldry.com/register.html" target="_blank">http://www.modernheraldry.com/register.html</a><a href="http://www.heraldryandcrests.com/heraldic_symbols.htm" target="_blank">http://www.heraldryandcrests.com/heraldic_symbols.htm</a>- I have a basic knowledge of how heraldry works (the gutenberg link is a great resource), but my designs are from a fantasy world, so I take liberties in order to fit the feel of the campaign and the particular order of knights represented there. When I began creating the knights' shields, I started with the more traditional heraldry, then began using more charges and dividing up the shields as I wished (since before I knew the rules I had described the knights' shields a certain way -- over years of campaign). What you see here are the shields of certain realms; a few are close to traditional heraldry, others stray very far from it (Morgruel is almost aboriginal). Individual knights will probably have more traditional shields as important NPCs are developed. (If George R.R. Martin can get away with it, I feel pretty safe doing the same.) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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