Subject: So. awesome!
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Posted on: 2018-08-15 04:47:00 UTC

It's perfect! It's all steampunk and clockwork and vaguely reminiscent of a ship's wheel which is totally perfect for what I'm planning for my Plort self and you even worked the arrows in and I love it so much! You even got the variant of brass I for the snowflake right even though I forgot to mention it!

Ahem, sorry for the run-on sentence, but seriously, thank you so much.

Now, as for my Inglish heraldry, the other reason I was reluctant to ask you for help is because I might end up changing it. A lot. I can feel there's a way to get it to work with proper blazonry rules if I can just simplify it a bit and change the field.
If you really feel like taking a crack at it, though, I'm hardly going to decline after how awesome the Alvish one turned out. I'm not even going to try to properly describe this one, though, so plain English will have to do. Oh, and I also sketched it a bit, if that helps.

The top of the shield is a dark red, with a silver sword pointing left. The center is divided in two, blue on the right charged with a rampant wolf facing left, yellow on the left charged with a rampant badger facing right. The bottom of the shield is green with a silver bow and arrow crossed.

The sketch. It's not much, but it's the best I've got. Don't feel too constrained by it, though. It's only a sketch, so feel free to muck about with the particular shades of the colors and whatnot. Stars know I will next time I work on it.

It is, as you can see, rather a kitchen sink blazon. I'm almost positive there's a better way to divide up the field, I'm seriously reconsidering the sword and the bow and arrow, and I'm still debating whethet I want the red chief embattled or not. Really the only part I'm completely happy with is the badger and wolf facing each other, and even then I'm not sure if they should be colored proper or sable and argent.

Still, I suppose the only way to improve is to iterate. The sooner I do that, the sooner I can find the flaws in the next version. "Fail faster," I believe the common wisdom goes.

Thank you again for the Alvish heraldry, and good luck if you end up tackling the other one. You're the best, hS.

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