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2003-07-03 - 9:41 a.m.

Look, Golden Boy, up in the sky...it's the Return signal

Just when I thought the last six months of the Golden Dolphin Herald job was gonna be easy...

(Quote from the April, 2003 Letter of Acceptance and Return from the Laurel Herald's Office, received July 3, 2003)

Atlantia, Kingdom of. Device change for Consort. Per pale argent and azure, on a fess wavy cotised counterchanged a crown vallery Or, overall a wreath of roses proper.

This submission has insufficient support from the populace of the Kingdom to be accepted. It is necessary for a kingdom to show support, not merely indifference, for changing armory that is as important as the consort's arms. The total polling, according to the LoI, had 93 respondents with 74 of the respondents in favor of the change. According to the S.C.A. Registry, on April 1, 2003, the Kingdom of Atlantia had 1254 sustaining members, 166 associate members, and 663 family members, for a total of 2083 members. This means that the total polling of 93 people reflected less than 5 percent of the Atlantian membership, with the positive responses being even less than that. We do understand that in any polling, many members will choose not to respond to the polling. Even taking that fact into account, the support shown here is insufficient to support the change in the armory.

Questions were raised about the inclusion of a crown in this armory. Kingdom armory of any sort may use a crown, as indicated in the reserved charges portion of the Glossary of Terms. Many kingdoms have registered secondary armory, such as badges, which include a crown or coronet. Having such a crown or coronet in the consort's arms, when one can be sure that the reigning consort is entitled to bear a crown, seems perfectly reasonable.
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So...at least it's something to have angst over that I'll be in the loop about...yeah me...or else I'll discover that noone really cares...one of the two.

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