From Karl Faustus von Aachen, Crux Australis, composing by candlelight in the darkest depths of Ynys Fawr due to one of those blackouts we always seem to get just when a deadline is looming, to the citizens of Lochac, greetings!

After a lean couple of months due to hiccups in the system, we have a bumper crop of registrations this month. Here’s the good news from the Laurel King of Arms:

Aeschine of Arran. Name and device. Per bend purpure and argent, two linden leaves in bend sinister stems issuant from the line of division counterchanged.
Aonghus mac Griogair mhic Raghnaill. Name.
Aymer de Mannvers. Name and device. Ermine, a stag’s head cabossed vert and in chief a mullet, a bordure purpure.
Cailin mac Eoin mhic Fhionnlaigh. Name and device. Per chevron inverted sable and gules, in chief two gouttes d’eau.
Çuleymen de Toro. Name.
Dante De Sollario. Name.
Edith Winter. Name and device. Per saltire sable and azure, four roses Or.
Emelyn de la Mare. Name change from Johanna Kitching and device change. Per chevron purpure and azure, a chevron wavy between three fleurs-de-ly argent.
Emelyn ffayrhome. Name and device. Per pale azure and argent, a sun Or and a base vert.
Emlyn Sadler. Name and device. Azure, an owl displayed and on a chief wavy argent three thistles azure.
Farleifr mj{o,}ksiglandi. Name and device. Per pale Or and sable, a cogwheel counterchanged.
Galen Wulfric. Name.
Gilli feilan. Device change. Per bend sinister wavy argent and sable, two wolves sejant ululant counterchanged.
Jennifer le Dragoner de Lille. Name and device. Purpure, on a plate a dragon in annulo vorant of its tail azure.
Maelgwn of Adora. Name.
Matthew Talbot. Name and device. Azure, a talbot passant argent and on a chief Or three hurts.
Mirabel Gellatley. Name.
Mýrún Jóhansdóttir. Blanket permission to conflict with name.
Peter of Smithfield. Name and device. Argent, a lion azure atop a trimount vert.
Peter of Smithfield. Badge. (Fieldless) In pale a lion couchant guardant azure atop an anvil argent.
Peter of Smithfield. Blanket permission to conflict with name and device.
Peter of Smithfield. Blanket permission to conflict with badge.
Rurik farserkr. Name and device. Gules, on a fess cotised Or a cross of Jerusalem sable.
Sláine inghean Uí Ruadháin. Name and device. Argent, on a bend between two dragons azure three open books argent.
Sorcha inghean Uí Bhradagáin. Name.
Thomas Bacchus. Name and device. Or goutty de sang, a cockerel sable atop a trimount vert.
Thyri skjaldmær. Household name Ulfstaðir and badge. (Fieldless) Two cornucopiae in saltire Or.
Tobias le Tregetor. Device. Per pale gules and azure, three bezants one and two each charged with a fret couped counterchanged.
Úlfr smiðr. Name and device. Azure, a chevron sable fimbriated Or surmounted by an eagle’s head erased argent, in base a double-horned anvil Or.
Ulrich von Mannheim. Name.

There are a few returns as well, but an unprecedented number of “Nice name!” and “Nice device!” comments from Laurel and his staff, which makes me proud.

Another thing that makes me proud is the release into the wild, a few days ago as I write this, of the new Lochac College of Heralds website. It includes all the content from the old site (which will be going dark and redirecting in the next couple of  days) plus a lot of cool new stuff. Lord Alexander a la Fontayne, Coffyn Herald, has done a spectacular job copying everything over and then fixing all the errors he could find. Meanwhile, I put my programmer hat on and wrote a new page for the roster of heralds, so if you are a herald please take a look at it and make sure your information is up to date. And I have all the links to past CAMELs on there, so if you want to see how much better the Crux Australis Monthly Emailed (or Electronic) Letter was before the current numpty took over the job, that’s the place to find out.

You’ll also find there the latest instructions on submissions, including the long-awaited electronic submissions process. As of this moment it’s still experimental, so the rules are a little stricter and more finicky than they will be after Easter when it’s all live. So bear with us and be patient, and all will be well.

In service, since my laptop battery is running low,

: Karl Crux :