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pukunui
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Posted - 25 May 2017 :  03:07:33  Show Profile Send pukunui a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
Hi folks,

I'm trying to establish what Daggerford's coat of arms looks like. The only image I've been able to find is a b/w line drawing from the old 2e box, The North. Specifically this: http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y391/pukunui81/Capture_zps22knmfac.jpg.


Does anyone know if there's a color image anywhere? If not, does anyone know what the colors are supposed to be?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Jonathan

Edited by - pukunui on 25 May 2017 03:09:41

George Krashos
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Posted - 25 May 2017 :  09:56:37  Show Profile Send George Krashos a Private Message  Reply with Quote
That image isn't loading.

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pukunui
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Posted - 25 May 2017 :  10:25:44  Show Profile Send pukunui a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by George Krashos

That image isn't loading.

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Really? It works for me. Is there any way to post the picture here instead of linking to it?
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If you can see the image (I can't see it, either), load it in Chrome, right-click on it, and select "Search Google for image"

That does a Google search for that specific image. I've generally had some good luck finding larger/better copies of images with that one.

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Markustay
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Doesn't work for me either - Photobucket sucks. I had to stop using it because it became so slow and unwieldy (you have to click through like five menus just to upload a single pc now). Unfortunately they bought up all their competitors and shut them down, so there are no good alternatives anymore.

Update:
Finally got it to load and thats a TERRIBLE picture - you can't even see whats going on the bottom of the device.

And that trick won't work for that pic, Wooly - its a scene with soldiers and they have the Daggerford device on their shirts (although you can't see any of them fully, and what I take to be 'water' is at different angles in each ).

EDIT: This might be a good question to pose to Eric Boyd.

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Edited by - Markustay on 25 May 2017 17:28:51
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Markustay
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I did a quick mock-up of what I think its supposed to be, but since my comp has this weird problem when saving files in GIMP (takes a 1/2 hour), and I have to step out right now, I can't post it until i get back.

Stay Tuned...

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pukunui
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Posted - 25 May 2017 :  22:50:24  Show Profile Send pukunui a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Does this link work? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAo0qYaXoAMGivl.jpg

I tweeted the pic to Ed to see if he knows anything. I did try googling it but got nothing. It's not been posted online before. If you're wondering, it's on page 8 of the Daggerford booklet in AD&D 2e box set, "The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier". (The one with a giant roasting a woman in a furkini on the cover.)

The only other image I could find of Daggerford's coat of arms is this one (http://www.gamebanshee.com/images/sobipro/entries/935/935_img.jpg) but I can't find it without the text in front, and I don't know if it's official or just a fan-made thing.

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Darkness over Daggerford is an unofficial mod for Neverwinter Nights, so that image isn't canon or licensed.

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Markustay
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Here's the one I just threw together yesterday - (seems to have the same basic idea as the DOD one, though).

Daggerford coat-of-Arms*


*GAH!* I think TinyPic may be worse than Photobucket now. Why do companies have to ruin EVERYTHING? I had to change the link to PB - UGH!


EDIT:
I like the DOD one a lot - I may just do my own version of that (because I DO plan to do something with Daggerford for the DM's Guild.) As I said, the one I just posted above was a really quick 'mock-up'.

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pukunui
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quote:
Originally posted by BadCatMan

Darkness over Daggerford is an unofficial mod for Neverwinter Nights, so that image isn't canon or licensed.

Bummer. At least it looks fairly legit. The only other coat of arms I could find online relating to Daggerford was a yellow and blue shield with a lion on it. Weird, eh?

quote:
Originally posted by Markustay

Here's the one I just threw together yesterday - (seems to have the same basic idea as the DOD one, though).

Daggerford coat-of-Arms
Nice. I'm getting ready to run Scourge of the Sword Coast, and this is a minor detail I thought was worth looking into.
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According to Volos guide to the sword coast the coa for daggerford is a bloody dagger on a field of blue.
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pukunui
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quote:
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According to Volos guide to the sword coast the coa for daggerford is a bloody dagger on a field of blue.
#128578;
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Cool. That does seem to be in line with everything else I've come across. To bad there's no (color) picture to go with it, right?
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Markustay
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Well, I guess I can use the other one for the related 'Dukedom of the Shining Vale' (at least, I think it was a dukedom.. I'd have to check Under Illefarn Anew). If Daggerford is trying to reestablish the dukedom, the older heraldry - which hasn't been seen 'in action' for some years - may be making a reappearance of late.

My little way of saying, "both could be correct".

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Ayrik
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Direct link to OP's image here. (Circumventing Photobucket's deliberately ad-/adware-polluted webscripts, also circumventing antivirus/defender software from blocking loading of dirty Photobucket content, lol.)

This question has been asked (and sort of answered) before in this old scroll.
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage

There is a slight reference to the town's arms... on pg. 2 of the "Daggerford" supplement in The North boxed set:-

"The current Duke of Daggerford, Pwyll Daggerford (LG hm F6 [cavalier]), claims to be a descendant of this brave merchant boy, and the town's arms display a bloody silver dagger on a deep blue field."


Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford depicts a different version, a two-coloured background, a silver dagger, and blue water/waves. Wikipedia's pages about such stuff are very detailed, lol, the "exact" heraldric terminology is apparently quite a technically comprehensive topic into itself.

My understanding is that the left and right vertical halves ("(party) per pale" "divisions") represent the colours of two "supporters" (attendants, patrons, houses, families, allies, virtues, ideals, whatever). I'm not sure what the black circle around the "field" represents, but it surely wouldn't be there if it lacked heraldric significance. The silver dagger we know. The blue and white waves clearly represent water, lol, but they are also drawn as a "crested" or "chevron" horizontally triple-striped "variation" or "pattern" which itself likely imports significance. The white/silver portions of the image are called "argent", though the various shades of blue will each have their own "proper" (and poetic-sounding) names. You can use an online image colour picker to identify and name the colours, if such accuracy matters to you, lol.

Even the particular shape and geometry of the shield itself has meaning. Militarized or warlike sorts of shields tended towards practical squared or blockish shapes which could, at times, fit within military crenellations (like a castle's battlements) or be rested flat upon the ground. More sharply triangular or rounded triangular shapes tended to indicate use by mobile (cavalry or naval) troops. Elegantly or ornately rounded shapes (like the "recurve" faintly suggested in this coat of arms) tended to indicate royalty or nobility, more fancy or decorative but less practical on the field. The "rough" curve suggested by straight metalshod lengths in this shield might simply indicate some local smith's lack of skill, time, or material - whether it was made recently or two generations past. And we don't know if every shield carried in Daggerford follows this same style or if this one sample is a refurbished (low-budget?) heirloom from long ago, it could even be a sturdy old dwarven shield repurposed by a perhaps-overly-proud new owner. I note the general low quality of artwork surrounding this shield, lol, the design could be limited more by the skill of the artist than by the smith who fashioned it.

Coats of arms change and evolve over time as politics and power structures change around them. Alliances and houses/families/lineages can emerge or dissolve, the deeds of heroes and champions can become quickly popular or can become slowly forgotten and displaced. The most prominent things tended to occupy the largest and most central positions in heraldric symbolism while the least prominent things tended to shrink into lesser background imagery and diminish until they were discarded.

I've never played this NN:DoD game, and it was apparently a dismal failure, but it's available as a free download at the official site. It might contain some story or background elements which better describe the symbolism behind Daggerford's (now changed?) coat of arms.

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R P Davis
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quote:
Originally posted by AyrikThis question has been asked (and sort of answered) before in this old scroll.
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage

There is a slight reference to the town's arms... on pg. 2 of the "Daggerford" supplement in The North boxed set:-

"The current Duke of Daggerford, Pwyll Daggerford (LG hm F6 [cavalier]), claims to be a descendant of this brave merchant boy, and the town's arms display a bloody silver dagger on a deep blue field."




There is no reliable way to blazon a "bloody silver dagger." In heraldic terms, the entire dagger would be gules (red) rather than silver. The dagger would be in the center of the field, point down. As such, it violates the rule of tincture, and is poor design. Red on blue is Not Allowed. See below.

quote:
Neverwinter Nights: Darkness over Daggerford depicts a different version, a two-coloured background, a silver dagger, and blue water/waves.


That image is modern graphic design, not heraldry. The shield doesn't have anything to do with it, as the armorial bearings are entirely contained within the circle. (They're poorly designed, by the by, and not at all acceptable, heraldically.)

quote:
Wikipedia's pages about such stuff are very detailed, lol, the "exact" heraldric terminology is apparently quite a technically comprehensive topic into itself.


Luckily I'm quite conversant on the subject. Finally an area of Candlekeep where I can contribute something useful!

quote:
My understanding is that the left and right vertical halves ("(party) per pale" "divisions") represent the colours of two "supporters" (attendants, patrons, houses, families, allies, virtues, ideals, whatever).


Not necessarily. While sometimes true, often the two colors just are.

quote:
I'm not sure what the black circle around the "field" represents, but it surely wouldn't be there if it lacked heraldric significance.


In this case I'm certain its artistic license, put there by a graphic designer in order to get clarity from the image.

If it was heraldic, it'd be called a "bordure sable." But as heraldic bordures are rather thicker than that shown, it's clearly artistic license.

quote:
The silver dagger we know.


Daggers need to be carefully described in blazon, as there is no default posture or coloration, as there is for sword. As shown, it's clearly "A dagger Cendrée in bend, point downwards." The problem with this is that cendrée is a very modern heraldic color; in the heyday of practical heraldry, it didn't exist. See my discussion of colors, below.

If we take it as read that the dagger is meant to be silver, the positioning of the dagger as seen in the two images is problematic, because you can't put silver over silver. In heraldry, white [Argent] is also silver. There is no "gray."

The other problem is that as far as I'm aware, you can't make a silver dagger (or sword, or spear, or whatever) with blood on it. There's no accepted way to use the language of heraldry (blazon) to describe it. It's either "bloody" - which means the whole thing is red - or it's silver. Sometimes the hilts are a different color (usually yellow/gold).

quote:
The blue and white waves clearly represent water, lol, but they are also drawn as a "crested" or "chevron" horizontally triple-striped "variation" or "pattern" which itself likely imports significance.


Conveniently, the wavy blue and white stripes - which could be blazoned "barry wavy argent and azure" - is when seen in base (at the bottom of the shield) simply called a "ford proper."

See Oxford: Argent, an ox gules passing over a ford proper.

https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/images/m081b.gif

quote:
The white/silver portions of the image are called "argent", though the various shades of blue will each have their own "proper" (and poetic-sounding) names.


Not really, no.

It's important to point out that heraldry exists as a visual identification. You see a red bull walking over a stream, that's Oxford. So it has to have high contrast (like a red dagger on a blue field, or the image from the video game doesn't), for one. For another, the words used in heraldry have to have specific definitions. Gules = red. Azure = blue.

With colors, things didn't get complicated until the latter half of the 19th century. Medieval heraldry was simple. Yellow, white, red, blue, black, green, purple. That's it. No orange, no shades, no different versions of "proper," just those seven colors. (Okay, there are furs, but those aren't germane to the Daggerford bearings, so I'm ignoring them for simplicity.)

quote:
Even the particular shape and geometry of the shield itself has meaning.


First, not in this circumstance. It's just a convenient display for the real armorial bearings, which are entirely contained within the circle.

Second, shield shape in important only to a point, and only in certain circumstances. For the overwhelming majority of time when heraldry was useful - not a mark of social elevation, but useful - the "heater" shield was the default shape because heraldry was how fighting men identified each other on the battlefield. Even today, if you just say "Argent, an ox gules passing over a ford proper" it's going to go on a shape like that in the linked image showing it. The shape of the shield isn't all that important in terms of meaning.

That's not universal, of course. In some European countries, by the 17th century women were displaying armorial bearings on a diamond shape called a "lozenge."

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Coats of arms change and evolve over time as politics and power structures change around them. Alliances and houses/families/lineages can emerge or dissolve, the deeds of heroes and champions can become quickly popular or can become slowly forgotten and displaced. The most prominent things tended to occupy the largest and most central positions in heraldric symbolism while the least prominent things tended to shrink into lesser background imagery and diminish until they were discarded.


That's certainly true, but generally that has to do with smashing different armorial bearings together, "impaling" or "quartering" them. That happens when two armigers - people who carry armorial bearings - marry. It doesn't change what's in either of their individual bearings; it makes an entirely new blazon.

The flag of the American state of Maryland is an excellent example. The black and gold (paly of six Or and Sable, a bend counterchanged) was granted to George Calvert, of whom Lord Baltimore was the heir, and the red and white (quarterly argent and gules, a cross bottony counterchanged) was held by Lord Baltimore's mother, an heiress in her own right. The issue of the union of a Calvert and miss Crossland were then allowed to carry the quartered arms rather than simply Calvert. In effect, Lord Baltimore's armorial bearings became Calvert, and Crossland ceased to exist as separate, heritable arms.

Okay, so where does that leave us?

The Sage's reference cannot be used as-is, because you can't have red on blue. The drawing, presumably from a FR adventure, is canonical but not terribly useful as it's black and white. But it does give us a visual design. The graphic from the video game is quite useful but isn't canonical.

I'd go with a combination. Take the ford from the video game. Take the bloody dagger as described by The Sage, and depict it like the badge on the tabards worn by the guys in the drawing.

Argent, on a ford a dagger Gules in bend point downwards. Seen here: http://r-p-davis.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/daggerford.png

That's how I'd do it, anyway.

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Ayrik
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quote:
Originally posted by R P Davis

I'd go with a combination. Take the ford from the video game. Take the bloody dagger as described by The Sage, and depict it like the badge on the tabards worn by the guys in the drawing.

Argent, on a ford a dagger Gules in bend point downwards. Seen here: http://r-p-davis.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/daggerford.png

That's how I'd do it, anyway.


I suspect that how you'd do it (and how you've done it) is better researched and more consistent with the framework of "Realms heraldry" than the Daggerford items already offered by one author and two artists, lol.

Thank you for the expert corrections/clarifications/expansions on my errors. Everything I "know" about heraldry is based on a few minutes reading Wikipedia, haha.

[Edit]
Somewhat off-topic, but I wouldn't personally bother with wearing any heraldric devices. My shield might have a camouflage pattern or bear useful a offensive magic (say a blindingly intense continual light, a symbol of pain, a hypnotic pattern, a cursed reflection, or even a shocking grasp) facing outward. I really wouldn't care much whether the fighting men facing me on the battlefield can identify who I am, I would care a lot more about what they could (or could not) do to hurt me whenever I have to pull out my shield.

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R P Davis
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To be fair, I've been studying heraldry for more than a decade. Like any specialized field, there are tricky bits. It's more than just "Whoa wot a cool picture"!

The Rule of Tincture is one of those. Simply put, metal should not be put on metal, nor color on color. White and yellow are metals, the rest colors. You can see the Rule of Tincture in play in the logos of literally every single corporation of any size. Just browse through https://www.brandsoftheworld.com/search/istock and you'll see the Rule at work.

Fantasy writers, for some reason, just don't remember that when designing pseudo-medievaloid heraldry for their people and places.

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Ed posted this to REALMS-L on 6 Apr 2000:
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The important thing to remember is that real-world heraldry was very untidy and inconsistent (still is, in many ways), and coherent rules came along late in the game...so if you consider Realms heraldry to be like 'old' real-world heraldry, with local heralds memorizing everyone's charges but the only 'hard' rule really being no duplication of arms within the same realm, and no use of royal arms by anyone unauthorized, anywhere, you've got it. Those who really want to follow established real-world blazonry are reminded that America ignores most of the European rules anyway, and that in both main systems, corporations are allowed to break almost all the rules if they pay enough :} (just like the Realms! :})....hope this helps.
That is, he knows our-world blazonry rules perfectly well, but they aren't always followed in the Realms.

On the other hand, 'a bloody silver dagger on a blue field' is from Steve Perrin's N5 Under Illefarn, where it's specifically the arms of the duke. If it's Steve's rather than Ed's, it may not be how Ed had it or would have had it.

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quote:
Originally posted by Faraer

Ed posted this to REALMS-L on 6 Apr 2000:
quote:
The important thing to remember is that real-world heraldry was very untidy and inconsistent (still is, in many ways), and coherent rules came along late in the game...so if you consider Realms heraldry to be like 'old' real-world heraldry, with local heralds memorizing everyone's charges but the only 'hard' rule really being no duplication of arms within the same realm, and no use of royal arms by anyone unauthorized, anywhere, you've got it. Those who really want to follow established real-world blazonry are reminded that America ignores most of the European rules anyway, and that in both main systems, corporations are allowed to break almost all the rules if they pay enough :} (just like the Realms! :})....hope this helps.
That is, he knows our-world blazonry rules perfectly well, but they aren't always followed in the Realms.

On the other hand, 'a bloody silver dagger on a blue field' is from Steve Perrin's N5 Under Illefarn, where it's specifically the arms of the duke. If it's Steve's rather than Ed's, it may not be how Ed had it or would have had it.



That's fair!

The only thing I'll point out is that in my experience and from what I've seen of the earliest blazons, the rule of tincture is uniform even in the earliest examples. The earliest examples I can find are mid to late 13th century, like Glover's Roll:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Glover%27s_Roll_of_Arms

If you have a breeze through that, you'll see what I mean.

All that aside, it's not my creative product, so I'm not going to say "that's wrong." It's wrong by heraldic standards in the Real World [tm]. But that doesn't really mean anything in the Realms. After all, we're talking about a place where folks can conjure fire from nothing.

I would go so far to say that it's a fairly natural rule; contrast is contrast, as proved by corporate logos, where instant clarity in identification is as necessary as it was in the Middle Ages. Exxon/Mobil doesn't have to follow the heraldic rule of tincture, but they do because it makes the most sense.

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Originally posted by AyrikSomewhat off-topic, but I wouldn't personally bother with wearing any heraldric devices. My shield might have a camouflage pattern or bear useful a offensive magic (say a blindingly intense continual light, a symbol of pain, a hypnotic pattern, a cursed reflection, or even a shocking grasp) facing outward. I really wouldn't care much whether the fighting men facing me on the battlefield can identify who I am, I would care a lot more about what they could (or could not) do to hurt me whenever I have to pull out my shield.



You'd think shields would just be utilitarian things, wouldn't you? It doesn't make much sense that they'd be canvases for personal expression.

But they are. From the earliest examples to, hell, even WW2, shields bore art. From the early:

https://68.media.tumblr.com/fb65670c5a3d53fa8c449e5073aed73c/tumblr_inline_nq3j21n0MZ1sfjjkp_1280.jpg

and

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8030/7925622986_f3ea0a1213_o.jpg

To the late:

http://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Shield_of_Parade_BM_1863_0501_1-1.jpg

If you're playing a Cavalier, or someone with a noble background, it's hella important that intelligent foes know who you are.

Anyway, I love these kinds of discussion.

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Swords often bore ornate crests, hilts, pommels, and inscriptions along the blade. Axes evolved into delightfully functional/artistic weapons. Polearms probably owe half their variety of shape and function to their visual (heraldry-like) function.

I suppose it makes sense for (silvered) daggers in Daggerford to also bear specific decorations with symbolic meanings. Perhaps every able-bodied militia man carries such a dagger, even if only to demonstrate his affiliations or indicate things like name, family, title, rank, or military unit. And if these daggers are common, then magical versions of these daggers may also be found.

Not sure why the original dagger was silver. Always possible for ceremonial or decorative pieces, the ornate sort of thing a minor nobleman might wear (especially after the assassinations in the Duchy). Silver is generally unsuitable for weaponry, and much more expensive than iron or steel, although in the Realms a silver weapon is useful against some kinds of monsters (like lycanthropes, some undeads, some fiends), silver is "pleasing" to druids and elves and fey folk, and it's somewhat "attuned" to Selune in mystical ways.

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Silver is generally unsuitable for weaponry ...
That's why, in D&D, weapons are usually "silvered" - that is, silver is added to the iron or steel weapon in some way - rather than being wholly made of silver.
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