Outlands College of Heralds

28 July 2020
From the Office of Rampart Herald
THL Khalidah bint Yahya'a (Nicole Riviezzo)
rampart@outlandsheralds.org

Unto Baron Timothy O'Brien, White Stag Principal Herald, and the College of Heralds of the Kingdom of the Outlands, does THL Khalidah bint Yahya'a, Rampart Herald, send her greetings.
What follows is the Letter of Response for July 2020 CE, ruling on the June 2020 Letter of Presentation (http://oscar.sca.org/index.php?action=100&loi=6532). The June 2020 LoP consists of items submitted from March 2, 2020 through June 1, 2020.
I would like to thank all of the heralds who were kind enough to provided commentary.

The following items were RETURNED for further work:

Calin al-Zarqa' - New Device. Per chevron inverted purpure and vert, in chief a roundel between an increscent and a decrescent argent
Returned for a conflict with Bridget of Cornwall [01/2014 via Ealdormere]: Per fess azure and vert, in chief a plate between in fess an increscent and decrescent argent. There is 1 DC for the field.
Euphemia de Argyll - New Device. Vert, four passion nails two and two Or, on a chief dovetailed argent three ears of wheat azure
Returned for a rework as the passion nails are not in a blazonable position. Two and two implies that the passion nails are centered in the field and over one another. As drawn, the upper two are spread out further from the lower two. While Kingdom does recognize a potential reason for drawing the nails on the field this way, it isn't blazonable nor can it be easily reproduced. A device must be blazonable to be registered.
Jeanne Claire Desrosiers - New Name & New Device. Or, a chevronel purpure between two chevronels vert, in chief two domestic cats rampant sable
Name returned for a rework with proper dated documentation. The source cited for the byname dates "Antoine Desrosiers" to May 2nd, 1650, just barely squeaking in as support for a speculative late-16th-century name. Unfortunately, there's no way to tell from the citation whether it's a valid or meaningful source. At a minimum, we'd need to know what the text is, who wrote it, and on what page the name appears, and to have an English translation of the cited text in order to evaluate it. See the Administrative Handbook (http://heraldry.sca.org/admin.html#IV.C). And while the name can be constructed from elements, there is no documentation supporting it as use as an actual byname in period. The assertion of the byname, Des Jardins making Desrosiers possible is not documentation. Documenting dated locative bynames that involve elments within a garden would be proper documentation for the creation of Desrosiers. The device is returned for a redraw and lack of name to go with it. The line and color emblazons do not match one another in design. The chevronels are much closer together and the cats are different in design on the line. The color emblazon has noticable fimbriation on the chevronels and on the cats. This fimbriation needs to be removed. The color emblazon should also be fully colored in with Crayola Classic Markers or their digital equivalents.

The following items were PENDED by Gold Castle Herald:

Dreadfull Thunder
Scans must be 300 DPI JPGs. Need text copy of name documentation notes. Name write-up is incomplete.
Euphrasia Raptissa Moreas
Submitting herald needs to submit complete payment record.
Kaliyan Kali
Need to submit text copy of name documentation and commentary notes.
Sorcha MacGillavrey
Name form and name documentation are incomplete.

All submissions should follow the guidelines at: http://rampart.outlandsheralds.org/#castle_instructions. In particular, citations used for name documentation that are not on the No Photocopy list must include a copy of the source material. Generally, this includes the cover or the colophon, and the page where the name item is documented. Please see SENA Appendix H for more details: http://heraldry.sca.org/admin.html#APPENDIXH

The following items were PENDED by Rampart Herald for further discussion:

Liepa Jonaite - New Household Name. La officina de la viuda de Juan Osorio
Pended to get documentation of right to use [Juan Osorio], part of a registered name.

The following items were forwarded to Laurel Sovereign for final determination:

Cainneach of the Hounds - New Device. Per pale Or and sable, two wolf's heads erased addorsed counterchanged and on a point pointed gules an annulet argent
Calin al-Zarqa' - New Name. [See Returns for Device]
Euphemia de Argyll - New Name. [See Returns for Device]
Euphemia de Argyll - New Badge. (Fieldless) On an ear of wheat azure a passion nail Or
Halla in kristna - New Name Change.
Isabella Rechardi - New Device. Argent, a raccoon sejant guardant gules marked sable and argent, in chief a wooden spoon fesswise proper, a bordure potenty sable
Kevin Nollaig of St. Golias - New Name & New Device. Quarterly vert and Or all estencely counterchanged
Oliver Mordrake - New Device Change. Per saltire gules and Or, four dragonflies tails to center counterchanged, overall a pelican vulning itself sable
Otto of Côte du Ciel - Device Resubmission (Laurel). Per pale and chevronelly azure and argent, a chief gules estencelly argent
Selim of Drygestan - New Name & New Device. Per fess wavy argent and sable, two sea-otters naiant counternaiant counterchanged
Seruda bint Mihail - New Alternative Name & New Badge. Makoto Yoshimura & Or, a hurst of three trees and in chief a crescent sable

Thus ends the July 2020 Letter of Response.

THL Khalidah bint Yahya'a
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