(Very quickly; I have about five minutes.)



Fun fact #1: I have no idea what Delta Juliette looks like.

Fun fact #2: 'Is sometimes a cat' has never been explicitly redacted.

Fun fact #3: The internet is stuffed full of cat pictures.

Fun fact #4: #AWizardDidIt.



Fun fact #1: I also have no clear idea what VixenMage looks like.

Fun fact #2: Just look at the name; clearly VixenMage is a shapeshifter.

Fun fact #3: OMIGOSH FOXES ARE ADONKABLE.

Fun fact #4: ESPECIALLY WHEN SLEEPING.

So that's the Baronial Council, in all their quirky glory. Next time, we get to see one of the other powers in Konti-Nyuum... assuming I can figure out how to draw her!

hS

(PS: Ha! Got it done in three. ^_^)

And has now been addressed. The Diskord and the Union both now have up-to-date pages, and their flags are properly in place.

None of Scape's flags have yet been put on the Wiki; I'm pondering where to put them. (Ditto the Plortraits.)

hS

But as you say, it's a big task.

What you'll find is that:

-The glossary lists all the concepts in English, with links to their Plortish equivalents.

-The pages I've gotten around to updating have a 'Reference' line in their infobox, which gives the English equivalent. For instance, Marizu... and, in fact, both 'Marizu League' and 'Pla'tool' have this already in place. Are you operating on a device which doesn't show infoboxes?

hS

Some wikis use these to explain obscure terms, with dotted underlines to show where they are, and I like them. There's a how-to here.

~Neshomeh might add the H:title template to PPC Wiki, too, just in case.

Or... something like that.



Fun fact #1: Eshakhar is the second baron (out of six) to be wearing actual armour; that's not a tartan dress, but a long coat of lamellar armour, as worn... pretty much anywhere east of Germany, looks like.

Fun fact #2: Eshakhar is indeed carrying both of her famous swords, which are of what some people would call Elvish design; she has one in her right hand, and the other tucked into her sash.

Fun fact #3: As seen in her stories, she has a cloak (for keeping the rain off) and a short braid (for... having a short braid, I'unno).

Fun fact #4: I neatly avoided both the 'how many stars' question and the 'updated coat of arms' one by using the non-rank-indicating arms, and hiding half the flag behind her head. Muahaha.

(So, that's six out of nine. I actually have Plans for drawing the remaining three barons, so that'll get done. As to the knights... I only know what two of them look like! We'll see.)

hS

But I'm not here about the portrait, or about Priestess Scapegrace's Fun With Flags. I'm here on Armorial College business! Now, about those arms of yours...

I'm guessing it's the Alvish shield you're looking at updating. So... what would you like? The classic upgrade would be to put some kind of point where you have the birds now (moving them, presumably), though there's nothing actually ruling out a lopsided device (with the points to one side of the birds). You could also do something that comes out on either side of the birds but joins outside them.

Previous baronnings have, weirdly, tended to introduce plants: we have brambles, olive branches (though I think they were morningstars once), and lotuses. Come to think of it, my secondary points are mallorn leaves... Nesh's are kudzu leaves... okay, I guess what I'm saying is that you don't have to use plant life for your extra points, but every single Baron of Plort in history with an Alvish shield has done so.

So what'll it be? ^_^

hS

Baron Huinesoron stood in front of the line of flagpoles, looking up at the banners flapping in the wind. "They're... alarmingly good," he admitted.

Ye Scape-Grace gave him something that can only be described as a leer, but her tone reflected none of it. "Surely this is because the great Spelin Tam-Ara hath guided mine hand," she declared. "Praise be to the Well-Written Word of Spelin."

"Er, yes." Huinesoron glanced at the Temple Warden's great hook-headed staff. "Praise be. Um..."

"Thou seemest uncertain, o faithful Son of the Temple," Ye Scape-Grace said pleasantly. "Tell me what ails thee, and by mine art I shall strive to aid thee."

"Don't push it," the Baron muttered. "But... two questions. Why is Baron Phobos' flag on a spear?"

"Ha!" Phobos strode in from the westward road. "Just the sort of question I would expect from you. I have a spear because I am a warrior!" The bearded Baron grabbed hold of the flagpole and yanked it from the earth, waving it overhead.

Baron Neshomeh came scurrying up behind him. "Put it down, dear," she chided, "you're going to hit someone."

"Quite the picture they make," Huinesoron murmured as Phobos planted the spear back in the ground. "I guess that answers that."

"Strange are the workings of Spelin," Ye Scape-Grace agreed. "Open thy heart and mind to me, and She will answer all that you might ask."

"Right." Huinesoron pursed his lips. "So... why do we need these flags? We've already got coats of arms."

"And fair indeed they are, if a trifle overwrought." Ye Scape-Grace lowered her hood and gazed up at the flags. "But they serve only to identify the knights who bear them, while these can serve as standards for an entire army - or to symbolise a Barony in the halls of Otik."

"I'm... not entirely convinced," Huinesoron admitted. "But they are very good."

"Indeed they are!" Sir Hardric, bearing his own shield of the eagle, sword, quill, and die, pushed through the crowd to the front. "And as a faithful convert to the worship of Spelin, I demand more!"

"More?" Ye Scape-Grace blinked. "Tha says what?"

"Oui, more!" Sir Hardric turned, arms outspread. "Let every Knight of Plort have a banner to call their own, that they may wave above the battlefields of the League and strike terror into the hearts of the Marizu! And-" He seemed lost for a moment, before rounding on Baron Huinesoron. "And let each and everyone one of us be commemorated in portraiture!" he cried. "For all know the work of Baron Huinesoron, how he has decked the castle formerly known as Retben in artwork of his own making; let him share the skills of his art with all, and not stop until every knighted soul of this isle is remembered."

Baron Huinesoron and Ye Scape-Grace shared a look which was, for once, in perfect accord. Huinesoron took a deep breath. "That's... an interesting idea, Sir Hardric..."

~

I'd actually forgotten Ye Scape-Grace had been proclaimed by a certain over-impulsive baron to be the Temple Warden of Spelin - because of her flag-making abilities. This all fitted together amazingly neatly when I remembered that.

As for portraits: I don't know what you look like. ;) I can't even do all the barons - I don't know what VixenMage or Juliette look like, either. (Technically I have a very old picture of Delta Juliette somewhere - you remember it, Juliette, it's the one with the rose - but I somehow doubt it's still accurate all these years later.)

But you'll probably get at least a few more before I get bored and wander off to something else.

hS

You gave me an irresistable image to work with.



Fun fact #1: Only the heraldic colours are filled in, because I couldn't be bothered to find a decent colour scheme for the armour.

Fun fact #2: Baron Phobos of course carries a token from his fair lady.

Fun fact #3: The circular devices on his shoulder armour weren't meant to come out looking like pizzas, but I'll take it!

Fun fact #4: Baron Phobos is sketched from a pole dancer, because that's what comes up when you Google 'man holding spear'. I'm... not sure what that says, but there it is.

hS

I love the one for Juliette- the cog and flower are lovely and abstract and pretty and aaaaaa.

When it comes to a lot of these flags, I tried to take motifs and colour combinations from the relevant baron's heraldry that worked together. In the case of Barony Phobos, that was the two field colours, the bend, and the dice reading six; that it came out resembling a Famous Pizza Corporation's logo was merely a happy accident. Zing's, meanwhile, came from combining the eight-pointed stars from the top of the field and the central charge of an olive branch with the purple field, while the rays were there to represent dawn. =]

Yours was actually super hard, bc Flag Maker Jr doesn't have quills or alembics or leaves and the scaling only goes up to 20x, which meant I couldn't put a lot of filigree in. I'm really glad you liked it. =]