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FAQs Rules Archives Articles Jobs Links KWHSS OSCAR SCA.org Welcome to the website of the SCA College of Arms! Heralds in the Society for Creative Anachronism have many jobs. We are fondly called book heralds, helping to research period naming and armorial practices for the registration of names and armory for the populace. We are voice heralds, calling announcements, proclaiming who is fighting upon the field, and acting as the voice of nobility in court. We are protocol heralds, recording awards and honors bestowed, drafting ceremonies, and determining precedence and other period legal niceties in all sorts of situations. We also work closely with our good friends in the College of Scribes, whose art and artistry with pen and brush make what we do beautiful. Anyone can be a herald. You can be a herald! As this site is meant to serve heralds and non-heralds alike, we are in the midst of redoing some site organization. Currently, the site is broken up into several sections with a menu at the top of each page. A brief synopsis of these sections: FAQs Several articles and documents answering common questions and providing commonly needed forms and letters; Rules The documents that guide the College, such as the Administrative Handbook for submissions procedures and heraldic officers, and the Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (SENA) for name and armory registration; Archives Links to several areas of accumulated data of concern to the operation of the College, such as the Letters of Acceptance and Return (LoARs), collected precedents set by past rulings, and the Ordinary and Armorial, a database of all registered names and armory; Articles Many articles on the topics of names, armory and voice heraldry, reproduced here by permission of the authors; Jobs A description of the various Society-level heraldic offices, as well as information for Principal Heralds, and information for heralds interesting in consulting or commenting; Links Contact information for the Society-level heraldic officers, links to the heraldic sites of the various Kingdoms, mailing lists and other links of heraldic interest; KWHSS The Known World Heraldic Symposium, an annual conference for SCA heralds the world over; OSCAR The Online System for Commentary And Response, a web-based application for heralds to review and comment on submissions of names and heraldry for registration; SCA Back to the Society for Creative Anachronism homepage. The present Laurel Queen of Arms is: Magistra Birgitta Lulli mka Unni Leino Contact information for the other Sovereigns of Arms as well as other officers can be found in the Links area. Maintained by Codex Herald . This page was last updated on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. The heraldry.sca.org site is copyright 1995-2024 Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. The copyright of certain portions of heraldry.sca.org are retained by the original contributors as noted. External links are not part of the heraldry.sca.org web site. Inclusion of a page or site here is neither implicit nor explicit endorsement of the site. Further, SCA, Inc. is not responsible for content outside of heraldry.sca.org. For information on how SCA uses collected and submitted data, please see the Privacy Policy . Paper texture used with permission from GRSites.com...