[Heraldry] - your IC banners and emblems

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Hello folks!

Being the expressive and artistic people you all are, no doubt most everyone on this server uses some form of communal, regimental, family or individual symbols. It could be a family crest, a clans war banner, a regimental honour standard or just a very personal symbol unique to you.

So, what are they?

I’ll start off, working from horde/alliance down to character in a “faction (or race)> guild > individual” format.

Horde (Orcish): Okiba proudly carries his own sashimono banner into battle displaying the Orcish horde symbol in black and red, the top support arm for the flag is held up by a broken spear, his old one from his om’riggor hunt which earned him his name if “Spearbreaker”. The flag itself is quite standard with no unusual qualitys, Okiba believing the emblem should and does speak for itself.

Guild: The Red blade crest! The tri-star of clan Red blade is a symbol of many stories and old myths, but likely traces itself back to the warlord ‘Githya Redblade’, who demanded that “no matter if you are strong, wise or cunning you will shed blood, yours in oath or a foes in battle!”, so three dagger like blades on a shield became his banner, one for each valued virtue, this changed gradually over time to become the modern emblem. The tri-star is typically always black on a dark (blood) red field, a display of the blood shed then and ever since for the clans cause. The clan is also synonymous with wolves, however that comes down to personal taste and patronage by particular spirits.

http://orcsoftheredblade.com/forum/gallery/2546_15_05_15_6_38_53.png

http://orcsoftheredblade.com/forum/gallery/1_23_06_09_4_33_25.png

Individual: Okiba has adopted the image of the Redstaff family of Pandaren as his own. A red leaf on a field of bronze, this is displayed on his rope-belt buckle and in his scribe work as part of his signatures. The symbol is meant to elude to the teachings he embraced due to the familys help and guidance after his internment.

So, that’s my Orc. Hopefully you all have some interesting stuff to share too! I look forward to reading about them. And do feel free to post anything related that i may not of mentioned!

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Winsor has adopted his family’s old crest, a starry raven on black.
https://i.imgur.com/JJy0WoL.png

And as his personal sigil, he’s made this one:
https://i.imgur.com/Ag0zEJ6.png

The undead bird is there because Winsor is an archaeologist, and he’s earned himself a nickname “Boneraven” because of it.

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Holy heck!

Those are awesome!

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The chest buckle on Chieun’s old armour carried an abstract emblem, and it ended up something like Chieun’s personal insignia. Accordingly, now that she wears her new Fallen Leaf armour, she detached the chest buckle and hung it from her belt.

https://gyazo.com/ff24aa56e29885c8038919daa85e1a77

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Vakosh doesn’t really have any personal heraldry or crests tied specifically to his bloodline. The closest would be his clan tattoos, and even they aren’t his so much as a display of pride in his clan.

On the rare occurences that he does bring a banner into the fray, it will either be the standard Horde symbol painted on whatever red cloth was available to him - or if the fight is very personal, he will bring the Warsong crest instead:

´https://pm1.narvii.com/6039/06d61b9cdc93741c64c161272253b7ee61d57974_hq.jpg´

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Much obliged.

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Mine are really simple.

Brigante has two. He’s not noble, his family were what we would term as ‘Comfortably Middle Class’ Nonetheless Blood Elves/High Elves do love themselves some pomp and such…
The Family sigil (such that the family is more than his brothers, his wife and kids) has always been the same, since his grandmother was exiled from Kalimdor, along with Dath’remar and the others. Granny Lolianda wanted a new name, partially to spite the other Kaldorei (as if they would ever know or care!) . When the Quel’dorei finally ended their long and bitter exodus, on a boat trip exploring (Brigante’s Grandmother was a proper frontierswoman type, she saw Quel’danas (I mean it had -obviously- been discovered, just she’d never been there) at just the right moment, as the sun rose over the island in all its splendour. The Summer Isle. And lo, the surname ‘Summerisle’ was adopted. As such the family crest is that simple, a depiction of Quel’danas, with a large and stylised Sun half cresting it

His other Insignia is that of a Wing Commander and Commandant at the Aerie. Simply enough a Gold Dragonhawk, coiled, with a Crown embossed beneath it. Again, not a symbol that he is in any way royalty (He really ain’t) but just a holdover from older times, a symbol that the office is sanctioned by the crown. Not that there is a crown anymore, but hey, plenty of real life nations do crazier stuff for rank insignia. I mean that’s the whole point of Officers. They technically are ‘Commissioned’ by the Crown (Goodness knows what Republics do) even though I heartily doubt (in fact I know) that Betty II signs off every Lieutenant’s scroll of commission.

Also, I freakin’ love that symbol, Kump.

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While Venrok here doesn’t have any personal heraldry yet, my Stromic character does. The first one is his family’s coat of arms while the second one, quite obviously, is the family seal. I toyed around with the thought of him revering the elementals rather than the Light hence the emphasis on runes and whatnot.

Oh, and the runes themselves represent (or so I am told) fire, strength, earth and light.

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Telyndris, being an ancient Highborne, proudly carries the coat of arms / sigil of her house, which is rather simple: on a field of purple a silver hippogryph passant, wings spread, under three golden stars.

Sadly, I did not get around to have it painted yet. :confused:

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All of these are brilliant, keep them coming!

:smiley:

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Been using the red clawmarks on black background since they came out.

http://i.imgur.com/punEWN2.png

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The Seventh Rastari Cohort (commonly known as The Painted Shields)

https://i.imgur.com/HOzLGxY.png
The Golden Pterrodax with hints or Rezan on the red background showing the colours of our Cohort.

Drawn for us by the lovely Janzi!

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It certainly seems… familiar!

Alliance delenda est, mon :sunglasses:

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https://imgur.com/a/i1wqlwr

The banner for the Order of the Eastweald, a show of unity between the two main movements of humanity on Azeroth.

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