Welcome to the web site of Castle and Rampart, Submissions Heralds for the Outlands!

Please report any dead links or corrections to the Web Team.

The Castle Herald, which is our internal submissions herald and produces the Letter of Presentation, is currently held by Baron Randall Carrick. Contact him if you find a typo on the Letter of Presentation or are a local herald inquiring about the arrival of your packet.

The Rampart Herald, which is our external submissions herald and makes kingdom level decisions and produces the Letter of Intent and the Letter of Response, is currently held by Hlaford Ædheluulf Munec. Contact him if you have a question about the status of your submission (and can't find it through the links below), have commentary on submissions, want more information about a decision made on your submission, if you are a submissions herald from another kingdom with a submitter who previously submitted through us, etc.

Submissions Tracking

• by Letter of Presentation
• by Letter of Response
• by Letter of Intent

Submission forms:

These are the updated Outlands College of Heralds submission forms. After September 1, 2006 any submissions using the older forms will be returned. Additionally, any alteration of the forms is grounds for return by Laurel.

The fillable-form .pdf versions can be filled in electronically with either the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or the free Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader will also allow you to save the filled-in form. Unfortunately, neither version will allow you to include the images.

• Individual Name Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf)- for all types of individual names including household names
• Branch Name Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf)- for all types of branch names including order, award, and guild names
• Device Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf) - regular "heater" shape
• Device Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf)- lozenge shape
• Badge Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf) - fielded badge shape
• Badge Form (.pdf, fillable-form .pdf) - fieldless badge shape

Some articles which may be of interest:

• Life of a Submission (trifold .doc format)
  from Her Ladyship Alia Marie, previous Rampart Herald
• Heraldry for Beginners
  from J. Balthazar Tegero, Weel Herald
• "Chevrons (inverted), Chaussés, Piles, and Chiefs Triangular, Oh My!"
  from Her Ladyship Alia Marie, previous Rampart Herald
• April 1, 2002 Letter of Mis-Intent
  from THL Pendar the Bard, previous Rampart Herald
• Creative Armory class notes (currently offline)
  from THL Pendar the Bard, previous Rampart Herald
• Armory Weirdnesses
  from THL Pendar the Bard, previous Rampart Herald
• Reserved and Prohibited charges
  from THL Pendar the Bard, previous Rampart Herald
• Catalan Given Names from the 5th to 12th Centuries
  from Lord Geffroi le crieur

Some offsite links that may be of interest:

• Pensic Traceable Art Project
  An archive of traceable heraldic art for armory.
• Heraldry Clipart
  An archive of copyright free/public domain heraldry related art.
• "A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry" by James Parker
• Manuscript/Armorial Site:
  Site is in German. Links under "Inhalt" on the left are scans of and from the documents:
  • Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch (1450 and later)
  • Ortenburger Wappenbuch (1466-1473)
  • Bruderschaftsbuch des jülich-bergischen Hubertusordens (c. 1480)
  • Anton Tirol's Wappenbuch (End of the 15th C. and later)
  • Livre du toison d'or (End of the 16th. C.)
• Academy of St. Gabriel
  A group related to the SCA that does research on names and armory.
• Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry
  Good explainations of heraldic terms.