To the kingdom of Lochac, Baron Karl Faustus von Aachen sends greetings and glad tidings.

The results of the deliberations of the Laurel King of Arms and his staff at their September 2012 meeting have been checked, proofread and summarised. The good news for the kingdom of Lochac is as follows:

Alys Dietsch. Name.
Burghardt von der Brandenburg. Device. Per fess argent and azure, in chief on a cross fleury gules four acorns leaved bases to center and in base a talbot statant coward argent.
Celsa sive Celsovildis. Name.
Celsa sive Celsovildis. Blanket permission to conflict with name.
Edine Godin. Name and device. Per saltire azure and argent, four quatrefoils counterchanged.
Francisco Salazar. Name and device. Quarterly sable and vert, a wolf rampant and in canton a decrescent argent.
Margaretta Haywards. Name and device. Per chevron azure and sable, two swans naiant and a dagger inverted argent.
Morwenna de Bonnay. Name and device. Purpure, three owls Or.
Nyssa mj{o,}ksiglandi. Name and device. Quarterly purpure and sable, a wolf statant and a bordure argent.
Olwyn of Shelford. Device. Argent, on a bend sinister wavy azure, three escallops palewise argent.
Petronilla Fairwif of Horsford. Device. Gules, a horse courant contourny and in chief a rose argent seeded Or, a ford proper.
Robin of Twyford. Device change. Or, an oak leaf within a bordure vert.
Robin of Twyford. Badge. (Fieldless) On a cross crosslet fitchy Or, an oak leaf vert.
Rowland Bridgeford. Name change from Rowland Brideford and device. Per chevron inverted argent and azure, in chief a magpie displayed proper, a bordure counterchanged.
Theophrastus von Oberstockstall. Device. Argent, a bend cotised sable and in chief a mullet of seven points gules.
Vladislav cel Negru. Name.
William de Bonnay. Name.
Yamamoto Kenjiro Yoshimitsu. Name and device. Argent, five annulets in annulo gules.

It is the custom of Laurel Sovereigns to indicate particularly good heraldry with “Nice device!” and good names similarly. In the full summary, I count an unprecedented NINE “nices” out of seventeen registrations, which is marvellous. My compliments to the submitters and their heralds.

There were a couple of returns as well. Rocket Herald will be in touch to discuss these and give the unlucky submitters a path forward.

Once again, the time from initial submission to final registration for some of these has been very short indeed. Lord William and Lady Morwenna, for example, got their paperwork to Rocket Herald in time for his June 2012 Letter. This was discussed among the heralds using the spiffy OSCAR (Online System for Commentary And Response) and survived that without any particular difficulty. They were formally ruled on in September, and after appropriate collation of the results the Letter was published early in November. That’s five months. If your name and device are taking longer than that, contact your local herald to find out why; if you’ve been putting off getting something registered because you figure you’ll die of old age before it passes, then welcome to the new standard! The Heralds really are here to help you get good, authentic names and devices, and they’re getting better at it all the time. Please make use of the service we provide!

In service,

: Karl Faustus von Aachen, Crux Australis Principal Herald :