Your character
Coats of arms and notice boards
Compose your own coat of arms - or your faction's - and see it on your letters, your walls and your banners. The notice boards on the walls are the staff's.
Your coat of arms
- Open the heralds' window
/crest(also/arms) for your own arms,/crest factionor the faction window for your faction's. - Start from the realm's arms
The first tab, Arms of the realm, holds 20 arms as the game's own shields and tabards bear them - the Kingdom of Bohemia, Bergow, Lipá, Písek, Prague, Kuttenberg, Sigismund, Zaviš, the Teutonic Order, the tourney shields and more. One click puts them on your shield: seal them as they are, or change what you like first.
- Compose
Choose the field's tincture, a division and its second tincture, an ordinary, then a charge, its tincture and how many (1 to 3). The shield is drawn live as you choose; Draw at random deals you a new one.
- Seal them
Seal these arms. The window warns when the rule of tincture is broken - metal on metal or colour on colour reads poorly from afar - but leaves the choice to you.
| Part | The choice |
|---|---|
| Tinctures | or, argent, gules, azure, vert, sable, purpure, ermine - the metals (or, argent), the colours and the fur (ermine). |
| Divisions | none, per pale, per fess, per bend, per bend sinister, quarterly, per chevron, per saltire, gyronny. |
| Ordinaries | none, a chief, a fess, a pale, a bend, a chevron, a cross, a saltire, a bordure. |
| Charges | 29 of them: lion, eagle, griffin, dragon, boar, stag, wolf, bear, fish, cross, mullet (star), fleur-de-lis, key, sword, axe, hammer, tower, crown, horseshoe, wheel, rose, garb (wheat sheaf), hand, tree, bell, crescent, double cross, triskelion, raven. |
Where your arms are seen
- Your letters: the wax of an opened letter is pressed with the sender's arms.
- Your faction: its arms head the faction window, and fly on the banners of the towns it holds.
- The account site: your character's sheet shows its arms beside its deeds.
Rather not see them? Settings (F8) > Chat & names > Show boards and crests off: the notice boards, signs, painted words, shop signs, banners and shields of arms on the buildings are no longer drawn in your game - the market's prices and the town's news stay.