The Bavarian Herald Jörg Rügen around 1510. Public Domain in the US

The July 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir.

CALONTIR acceptances

Amawara Mitsumi. Name change from holding name Deanna of Cúm an Iolair.

Amma Hǫldr. Device. Sable, a phoenix facing sinister Or between in fess a sword and an open book argent.

Aurora Valentina da Firenze. Name and device. Azure, a swan argent and on a chief Or two roses proper.

Nice southern Italian 16th century name!

Calontir, Kingdom of. Badge for Kingdom of Calontir Scribes’ Guild. (Fieldless) A wing terminating in a human hand Or maintaining a pen purpure.

Kingdom of Calontir Scribes’ Guild is a generic identifier.

Calvius Atrox. Device. Vert, a dog rampant contourny maintaining a chalice, an orle of chain Or.

The submitter is a knight and thus entitled to display an orle of chain.

Caspar von Görlitz. Device. Or, a bear statant erect maintaining a lyre, a point pointed sable.

Gyða glóra. Badge. (Fieldless) A crested titmouse azure, face and breast argent, gorged of a pearled coronet Or.

The submitter has permission to conflict with the badge of Merlyn Elzebeth von Preßela, (Fieldless) A merlin azure, and with the device of Reginleif Ragnarsdottir, Or chape gules, a raven azure.

This is the defining instance of a crested titmouse in Society armory. Species of titmice with crests are found across North America, Europe, and Asia in areas inhabited by humans in period and are therefore registerable per SENA A2B2b.

The submitter has a court barony and is thus entitled to display a coronet.

Jacquetta Pomeroy. Name and device. Or, a dog sejant with one forepaw raised sable collared between three apples gules leaved vert.

Nice cant!

Jamette de la Roche. Device. Per chevron azure and Or, two seeblätter Or and a dog passant sable.

Kassiani Zaridina. Name (see RETURNS for device).

Maol Ruanaidh Mac Cana. Name change from Áine inghean Mhic Con.

The submitter’s prior name, Áine inghean Mhic Con, is retained as an alternate.

Roslyn Froste. Device. Azure semy of estoiles Or, a fox rampant reguardant contourny argent.

This device was pended on the April 2025 LoAR to redraw it with more estoiles.

William Forbees. Name and device. Purpure, in cross four bees Or.

Nice canting device!

CALONTIR returns

Kassiani Zaridina. Device. Vert, a sea-horse contourny Or.

This device is returned for conflict with the Kingdom of Atlantia’s badge for the Queen’s Champion, (Fieldless) A sea horse to sinister Or gorged of a chaplet of roses gules. There is a DC for adding the field, but no DC for removing a charge gorging the neck of a whole beast.

Nikita Pavlovich. Device. Per fess sable and azure, a sun Or eclipsed sable and in pale four bears passant argent.

This device is returned for violation of SENA A3D2e, Unity of Arrangement, which states “Charges within a charge group should be in an arrangement that can be blazoned with a single arrangement phrase”. The arrangement of the bears must be blazoned separately from the arrangement of the primary charge group as a whole, as the blazon Per fess sable and azure, in pale a sun Or eclipsed sable and four bears passant argent implies that the five primary charges are evenly distributed across the field, rather than the bears being solely on the azure portion of the field.

The Bavarian Herald Jörg Rügen around 1510. Public Domain in the US

The June 2025 Letter of Acceptances and Returns has been published. Here are the results for Calontir. This month, they reblazoned a few already registered devices. This doesn’t mean the device was changed; only the words describing the device were changed.

CALONTIR acceptances

Aldred on Lyccidfeltha. Reblazon of device. Per bend sable and vert, in bend three drinking horns contourny argent.

Blazoned when registered in December 2009 as Per bend sable and vert, in bend three drinking horns argent, we are clarifying the orientation of the drinking horns. Their backs are to sinister, thus they are contourny.

Astriðr Birnudóttir. Alternate name Diglach Albanach.

Epodacus of Villa Frumentaria. Name and device. Per bend azure and vert, a horse rampant reguardant and a lyre, a bordure argent.

Villa Frumentaria is the registered name of an SCA branch.

Giacomo Dellafonte. Device. Per pale embattled gules and Or, in dexter three annulets conjoined one and two argent.

The submitter has permission to conflict with badge of Suzanna the Herbalist, (Fieldless) Three annulets conjoined one and two argent.

Isabella of Fyren-Ar. Reblazon of device. Vert, on a chevron between three gauntlets aversant each sustaining a bow fesswise string to chief argent two threaded needles in chevron vert.

Blazoned when registered in January 2003 as Vert, on a chevron between three gauntlets each sustaining a bow fesswise string to chief argent two threaded needles in chevron vert, we are clarifying the facing of the gauntlets. They are aversant.

Margaret Fitz Thomas. Name and device. Gules, a fess wavy and a bordure argent.

Nice late 16th century English name!

Nice device!

Mikal the Ram. Reblazon of device. Sable, a pair of ram’s horns, a bordure argent.

Blazoned when registered in December 1988 as Sable, two ram’s horns couped affronty within a bordure argent, we are clarifying the orientation of the ram’s horns. Since they face in opposite directions, they are a pair of horns. Horns are couped by default and these are in their default orientation.

Randgar Schmidt. Reblazon of device. Per fess sable and Or, two horseshoes inverted and a single-headed chess knight counterchanged.

Blazoned when registered in December 1988 as Per fess sable and Or, two horseshoes and a single-headed chess knight counterchanged, we are clarifying the orientation of the horseshoes. Their openings are to chief, thus they are inverted.

Rolanda de Lyndhurst. Device change. Vert, a goose rising to sinister argent maintaining in its beak the thread of a quill of yarn purpure threaded Or.

The submitter’s prior device, Per bend vert and bendy sinister sable and argent, a bend wavy and in chief a cross of five annulets braced argent, is retained as a badge.

Skallagrímr Bárðarson. Blanket permission to conflict with device. Per chevron sable and azure, a chevron rayonny argent.

The submitter grant blanket permission to conflict for all armory that is not identical to their registered device.

CALONTIR returns

Ragnar MacCrimmon. Device. Per bend argent and vert, five seals naiant in annulo bellies to center and a unicorn’s head couped contourny counterchanged.

This device is returned for violation of SENA A3D2e, Unity of Arrangement, which states “Charges within a charge group should be in an arrangement that can be blazoned with a single arrangement phrase. Charges in a default arrangement are always considered to be in a unified arrangement.” The seals are not in a default arrangement, and the arrangement of the seals needs to be blazoned separately from the arrangement of the primary charge group as a whole.

There is a step from core practice for the use of charges orientated in annulo.