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Greetings from Arval!  Rhys wrote:

> Have the CoA continue to accept arms under the current rules for design &
> conflict with no extraordinary documentation.  HOWEVER, if someone wishes
> to register a different style of heraldry (Hungarian, Japanese, Arabic,
> ...), they must document it throughly, and, possibly, register it to a
> name of the appropriate culture.

This is essentially identical to a proposal that has been put to the
College and to the Board a number of time over the past three years by
myself and others, except that most of our proposals would not tie armorial
style to the registered name.  Names and armory have no real connection,
aside from the fact that the same SCA bureaucracy deals with them.  The SCA
has no other requirement for consistency between separate pieces of
re-creation used by an individual - you can wear a 14th century Italian
doublet and eat off 16th century English plates - and there is no
particular reason why names and armory should be treated different from
other arts (except perhaps that the College of Arms is in the position to
do so).

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Arval Benicoeur                                       mittle@watson.ibm.com