Cavalier Order Images

[KingmanHighborn]

Is there anything 'official' for the images of the orders? I mean Alain's Cockatrice order is displayed on him but I can't find anything on what or if there is an official image for the others (Sword, Lion, Paw, Stars, Tome, etc)

[Akerlof]

I don't know that the orders are universal, thus having the same heraldry. For example, I seriously doubt that the Order of the Cockatrice in Qadira is the same organization as the Order of the Cockatrice in Taldor, and therefore you would have different imagery for the two.

In fact, you can be a member of an order without belonging to any organization. you could have two Hellknights, both in the Order of the Nail (the organization, nothing to do with cavalier orders) with one being an Order of the Sword cavalier and the other being an Order of the Lion cavalier. Neither would belong to anything outside their Hellknight order and their heraldry could be identical.

[Pirate]

Yar!

I cannot say how official this is, but pages 16-17 of the book Knights of the Inner Sea contains a description of basic knightly Heraldry, and uses Alain as an example. These pages also separates most of his gear into it's individual components and tells you their proper names.

ie: Standard, vamplate, gorget, besagew, plackard, gardbrace, pauldron, rerebrace, couter, faulds, tassets, yoke, shank, rowel, chausses, sabaton, etc.

His Coat of Arms, as displayed on his tabard, escutcheon, banner, and caparison, contains two parts, divided vertically: The sinister (left side of the coat of arms) displays a modified fret running the full length of the field, while the dexter (right side) displays a Wyvern as the charge (in heraldry, a charge is a dominant emblem).

When a coat of arms is split vertically in this manner, it is often (but not always) a representation of two families united, each half bearing one families Coat of Arms. I'm not sure if this is the case for Alain. Actually, based on his writeup, I highly doubt that is the case.

Regardless, the image on his Coat of Arms is in fact a Wyvern, not a cockatrice. According the Knights of the Inner Sea at least.

As for official heraldry for various Orders? So far I have seen none, and so doubt that any actually exist at this point in time. Most heraldry seems to be either familial or national in nature. Each region in the Inner Sea World Guide has a standard/heraldry to represent each nation, and there are a few examples of known Heraldry in the Knight of the Inner Sea, and there they are all for a family or noble house.

~P