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This reminds me of the description texts in heraldry. For example, the coat of arms of Finland: "Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampli

by tniemi 8y ago

This reminds me of the description texts in heraldry. For example, the coat of arms of Finland: "Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampling a sabre in base proper, his dexter foreleg in the form of a man's arm vambraced and embowed argent garnished Or bearing aloft a sword proper." And somehow from this emerges a special lion with a sword through it's head: https://satwcomic.com/coat-of-arms https://satwcomic.com/coat-of-arms

sdrothrock 8y ago
> Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampling a sabre in base proper, his dexter foreleg in the form of a man's arm vambraced and embowed argent garnished Or bearing aloft a sword proper. Translation: Gules: Red Semy: Background Roses argent: Silver roses A lion: A lion Rampant: Standing Crowned Or: With a literal golden crown on its head ("Or" meaning "gold") trampling a saber: stepping on a saber in base proper: the saber should be colored normally his dexter foreleg: The right "arm" in the form of a man's arm: the right "arm" should be a man's vambraced: wearing armor about the forearm and embowed: bent argent: silver garnished Or: decorated with gold ("Or" meaning "gold") bearing aloft: carrying a sword proper: a sword colored normally So, in normal speech, this is a basically a technical specification for: 1. The background should be red with silver roses 2. The foreground should be a standing lion 3. The lion should be wearing a golden crown 4. The lion should be standing on a sword, colored normally 5. The lion's right forearm should be a human's, armored 6. The armor of the forearm should be silver with gold decoration 7. The human-like right forearm should be bent and raised, carrying a sword 8. The sword should be normally colored Anyone who knew heraldry when it was important would be able to take that description and churn out a reasonable facsimile of the crest. The lion isn't stabbing itself in the head any more than a "suicide king" is.
- ygra 8y ago
  I remember when I was vectorizing flags (the simple geometric kind, though, since I've done it with a text editor and some scripting/templating) on Wikimedia Commons as a pastime years ago. I got reasonably well-versed in parsing heraldry as a side-effect and it was fun in a way, considering that it is indeed a fairly precise description syntax for coat of arms and flags. And I got confused when GRRM started using proper heraldic descriptions for flags in ASoIaF with the third book, while the two before were basically just very simple English descriptions. Most readers probably never really noticed :)
Stoo 8y ago
Have you seen https://drawshield.net/create/index.html https://drawshield.net/create/index.html ? It can be a bit hit and miss but it will attempt to display your shield based on the blazon text.

by tniemi 8y ago

sdrothrock 8y ago

> Gules, semy of roses argent, a lion rampant crowned Or trampling a sabre in base proper, his dexter foreleg in the form of a man's arm vambraced and embowed argent garnished Or bearing aloft a sword proper. Translation: Gules: Red Semy: Background Roses argent: Silver roses A lion: A lion Rampant: Standing Crowned Or: With a literal golden crown on its head ("Or" meaning "gold") trampling a saber: stepping on a saber in base proper: the saber should be colored normally his dexter foreleg: The right "arm" in the form of a man's arm: the right "arm" should be a man's vambraced: wearing armor about the forearm and embowed: bent argent: silver garnished Or: decorated with gold ("Or" meaning "gold") bearing aloft: carrying a sword proper: a sword colored normally So, in normal speech, this is a basically a technical specification for: 1. The background should be red with silver roses 2. The foreground should be a standing lion 3. The lion should be wearing a golden crown 4. The lion should be standing on a sword, colored normally 5. The lion's right forearm should be a human's, armored 6. The armor of the forearm should be silver with gold decoration 7. The human-like right forearm should be bent and raised, carrying a sword 8. The sword should be normally colored Anyone who knew heraldry when it was important would be able to take that description and churn out a reasonable facsimile of the crest. The lion isn't stabbing itself in the head any more than a "suicide king" is.

ygra 8y ago
I remember when I was vectorizing flags (the simple geometric kind, though, since I've done it with a text editor and some scripting/templating) on Wikimedia Commons as a pastime years ago. I got reasonably well-versed in parsing heraldry as a side-effect and it was fun in a way, considering that it is indeed a fairly precise description syntax for coat of arms and flags. And I got confused when GRRM started using proper heraldic descriptions for flags in ASoIaF with the third book, while the two before were basically just very simple English descriptions. Most readers probably never really noticed :)

Stoo 8y ago

Have you seen https://drawshield.net/create/index.html https://drawshield.net/create/index.html ? It can be a bit hit and miss but it will attempt to display your shield based on the blazon text.