Friday, July 23, 2010

Oh, Dear.

I had the, umm, luck to run across a website the other day called MyBlazon.com, with the tag line, "Enable the noble you!"  The URL is, unsurprisingly, http://myblazon.com/

To quote their main page, "MyBlazon.com offers you to freely and easily design your own meaningful, unique Blazon and coat of arms!"  I thought, I've already got my own unique coat of arms, but what the heck, I'll try it.  They want to to select three "qualities" (e.g., courage, liberality, purity, strength, wisdom) from a list, and then include your first and last name and, if you like, your "lucky number".  Do all that, and the site will create for you a coat of arms.  (I'm assuming that they are choosing tinctures and charges based on those qualities.)

So I did all that, and was presented with the blazon: Per chevron embattled Vert and Argent in chief senester a dolphin haurient of the same barbed Or holding a fish in base four antelopes salient reguardant Sable horned hoofed Gules and the following emblazon:

Well, I must say, it probably really is "unique".  Can't say as I care for it all that much, especially not in preference to my own long-researched and better balanced arms, Argent two chevronels azure between three apples gules slipped and leaved proper.

I can't really recommend the site for anyone with a serious interest in heraldry, but if you've got a couple of minutes and are a bit curious, feel free to drop on by and give it a trial.  It doesn't cost anything, and nobody's saying that you actually have to adopt the arms that they come up with for you.

3 comments:

  1. You totally missed out on the chain mail hightops on the third page! I also got my blazon and it has cherubs riding dolphins. :D

    Per chevron flory Or and Gules in chief dexter a lion double queued Vert in base four dolphins naiant Argent finned Or barbed crested queued of the same with a cherub riding proper.

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  2. I got this, and it breaks tincture. But the majority of it is purpure, so I really can't argue with it.

    Per chevron invected Purpure and Azur in chief senester a laurel wreath Argent in base four laurel wreatsh proper.

    Typos, too. Hmm. Must go back and shuffle values around and see what happens.

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  3. While there may be some folks who will tell you that "Per chevron invected purpure and azure" breaks the rule of tincture, I think there are sufficient examples of divided fields of two colors like this to demonstrate that the rule really applies more to charges placed on the field. Not that I think that purple and blue are a particularly good color combination; I suspect that at any distance the complex line of division gets a little "muddied". But I don't believe that it breaks the rule of tincture/rule of contrast.

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