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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 809095" data-attributes="member: 7240">I'd really like to push for ensuring that the civic crest reflects some aspect of the town's history or character. I'm not especially set on a particular aspect of the history but it does seem strange to me that the city's symbolic representation of itself should be wholly decoupled from its historical self-concept.I'm not suggesting that this reference be the primary feature of the crest but it seems to me appropriate to include one or more of the following:(a) a cypress tree in silhouette(b) a fish(c) silk(d) a sheep(e) a mining pickOne of the problems I have with Mor's End "City of Trade/Coins" is what else is a pre-modern city a city of? Unless it's the capital of an empire, the common thread of virtually all premodern cities is trade. Wouldn't cities of this size in every region be cities of trade?To be clear, I'm not saying that Mor's End shouldn't see itself as a city of trade; I'm just saying that this cannot be the sole component of how the city symbolically represents itself. God knows I can't make a crest and therefore can't really step into the breach to "improve" on the attractive-looking crest that has been produced but I hope that my comments can be integrated in some way. Thanks for starting this work GladiusNP; a civic crest is indeed a very good idea. I'd just like it to be a crest that could not easily be adopted by some other city without modification.</blockquote>

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