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Creating a society/order?
Sir Wolf:
ok i think there needs to be a cross or something to keep the black off the blue. Sir Edward? help here?
Sir Matthew:
Sir Wolf, you are thinking along the same lines as I am. Perhaps Sir Edward or someone else can assist us in this point of the rule.
Sir Wolf:
maybe an alternating thin Or/sable. or something
Sir Edward:
Actually you're fine, color-wise. In a field division, even with an ordinary, the colors are next to each other and not "over" each other. The two upper quadrants are either metal on color, or color on metal, so they look fine.
The thing is, there's no really no division that goes three-way like that exactly. What you'd probably have is less than a third of the height of the shield in the blue region, and it would be called a "base azure", with the primary field division being Per Pale Sable and Or.
The three-part divisions that do exist are the Per Pall divisions that contain diagonal boundaries.
One way to cheat would be to consider it to be an "Impalement" (combination of two family's arms) that is divided Per Fess, with the second family's arms being just a blank blue field. But that's reaching. :)
I'm attaching a sample of what I think would be heraldicly correct. BTW, all animal charges are assumed to be facing left (to dexter) unless specified otherwise. I'd probably blazon it as "Per Pale Sable and Or, A Wolf Rampant Argent, A Raven Sable, a Base Azure".
Sir Matthew:
Thank you Sir Edward, your knowledge of Heraldry vastly surpasses mine. I like that design much better than what I had originally done. It somehow looks more right, even if it is not quite right with existing examples. I guess the question is now, does that violate the rules and tradition too much or is it exeptable? I suppose I could rework it to have the proper three way division, if it's deemed too much of a stretch.
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