Tiamath's flag revisited

[ffutures]

Following on from the comments on yesterday's post, this is what I'm going to put in the adventure:



Tiamath’s flag; in heraldic terms it is described as

Azure, a dragon rousant or, mountain of three peaks argent in base.

Or in more conventional language:

Blue (background), a dragon rising (gold) with a mountain of three peaks at the bottom coloured silver

There have been at least five previous versions of the flag, differing mainly in the position and size of the dragon. The history of these changes is a fascinating reflection of the history of Tiamath but, alas, outside the scope of the current work; see chapter XII of A Dragonet's History of Tiamath by the Blessed Jamanah for a good overview of the subject.

Does this look OK?

For anyone who is wondering, the Blessed Jamanah is one of Jo's inventions, a "writes loads of books for the kiddies" vicar with (presumably) an undemanding country parish and a lot of time on his claws. He may eventually become the Alfred Harmsworth of Tiamath and produce a dragonet's encyclopaedia if I want to put in a few more infodumps. In fact this gives me a very good idea for one of the other adventures...

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Yep. Looks good to me.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks - other people did all the hard work, of course...

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Effective evil overlordship requires good task delegation skills. Just be sure to claim all the glory for yourself and quietly have those who did the hard work put to death so that they cannot reveal your secrets.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Might I suggest

azure, a mountain of three peaks argent, in dexter chief a dragon tergiant volant to sinister or ?

Or in English

blue, a white mountain of three peaks, in top left a gold dragon viewed from the back flying up and to the right.

Your blazon infers that the dragon is directly above the centre peak and that its feet are still on the ground (rising).

If you want a nice cut-paste-and-tweak heraldic mountain in silver try www.mynydd-gwyn.org (www.mynydd-gwyn.org). I've been playing with heraldic devices quite a bit for various reasons recently, so if you'd like me to create that one for you I'm happy to lend a hand.

*Closet herald sneaks back into cupboard*

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, yeah, that's much better.

I can't get the link to work for the mountain picture but I don't want it to be too much like our world's heraldic imagery anyway, so maybe I'd better stick with what I have. The caption is a great improvement, many thanks!