Unto the heralds and populace of the Kingdom of Lochac does Amanda Martel,
Crux Australis Principal Herald, send greetings.

Well, my friends. What a year this month has been. These are hard,
strange, and dramatic times for all of us, and I find myself short on any
words other than “take care of each other”.

As part of the response to the ongoing situation, I am sad to report the
sensible and necessary, but disappointing, decision that the in-person
events of the Known World Heraldry and Scribes Symposium, which was to
have brought crowds of heralds from throughout the Known World to our
doors, has had to be cancelled.

I understand that this is disappointment both for Lochac’s heralds, who
were looking forward to having our horizons expanded beyond the Kingdom’s
borders, and to the Known World’s heralds, who were looking forward to
meeting us all. Alas, both mundane legalities and just good health sense
must take priority.

While we will no longer be able to meet everyone in person, I am happy to
let you know that alternate online delivery for KWHSS classes and suchlike
is being looked into.

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While the in-person loud parts of a herald’s work are on hiatus until
further notice, there are still a number of ways to get involved. Name and
armoury submissions, with the associated research, are mostly done
electronically anyway these days.

As to whether it’s a good idea to practice your tourney heraldry
projection alone in your back yard, I leave that up to you, and the
patience of your neighbours.

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The following items have been registered in Lochac on the January 2020
Letter of Acceptance and Response:

Aelfgar of the South. Name.

Allice Marie Penrose. Name.

Ann of Stowe. Device. Per bend sinister gules and sable, a crescent argent
and a horse’s head couped Or.

Annabelle Oakes. Name and device. Quarterly Or and vert, four acorns
inverted slipped and leaved counterchanged.

Annys Blodwell. Alternate name Robert Foxall.

Aoife Nisbet. Name and device. Azure, a calamarie, on a chief wavy argent
four lymphads sail set and oars shipped sable.

Ava Liana Rosewood. Name change from Avelyn Rosewood.

Cailleach Dhé inghean Uí Dhuinn. Name and device. Per fess purpure and
argent, an owl argent and a rosemary sprig fesswise vert.

Caleb Adolphus. Name and device. Vert, on a triangle inverted argent a
frog vert.

Clara Bone-Aventure. Badge. (Fieldless) An open scroll azure mullety argent.

Eamonn Mac Lochlainn. Name.

Eleonora Rose. Device. Sable, on a square weaver’s tablet lozengewise
argent a rose gules.

Eleonora Rose. Badge. (Fieldless) On a square weaver’s tablet lozengewise
argent a rose gules.

Faolan of Adora. Name.

Fionnabhair inghean ui Mheadhra. Alternate name Fina Mare.

Gwen verch David. Badge. Gules semy of bees proper.

Linet atte Falcons Nest. Badge for House of Falkenburg. Per pale azure and
gules, a falcon striking maintaining in its talons a closed book argent.

Madog Llwyd ap Madog. Badge. Per bend azure and gules, a quiver with five
arrows Or.

Mær{w}ynn of Legeceasterscire. Device change. Argent, a dragon, on a chief
embattled vert three garbs Or.

Magnus Valdemarsson. Name.

Mathilde Ficke Sitt. Name and device. Azure, a lamb rampant argent
sustaining a sledgehammer Or, a bordure argent.

Symonne de la Croix. Name and device. Sable, an artist’s paintbrush and a
pen in saltire between four fleurs-de-lys Or.

Rocket Herald will send out individual missives to all those with
acceptances and returns. Quarrel Herald will update the Lochac Roll of
Arms, which will be available at
https://roll.lochac.sca.org/index.php?page=Recent when done.

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Yours in service to the Kingdom and Crown of Lochac,

Amanda Martel
Crux Australis Principal Herald