Please, any and all book heralds who might read this post: when helping gentles create arms, please suggest something easy for scribes to draw and paint around. Please try to ween gentles away from complicated charges and lots of tiny things. I'm working on a backlog scroll and trying to paint around 137 butterflies. Why, heralds? Why? Why didn't someone say, "Perhaps, 137 butterflies are a tad too many? Why don't we stick with 5. Think of the scribes."
Some devices need an intervention.
Gentle: "So, I was thinking about what would look cool and I came up with: Per pale embattled ermine and azure, three lions rampant charged each on the shoulder with three roundels gules, on a chief Or on a mullet between flaunches argent, a roundel sable."
Herald: "Uh, that's too many things and half the scribes will want to drag you out into the woods, murder you and leave you for the animals."
Gentle: "Only half?"
Herald: "The other half will make you dig a shallow grave before they murder you."
Ah. I feel better, now, and I'm ready for the second coat around the 137 frickin' butterflies.
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