On June 5, the Board of Directors approved a new peerage for ranged martial arts and directed Laurel Queen of Arms to start the process for devising and registering a name and armory for the order.
Devising a name and armory for a new peerage order is not an easy task. Since February 1970, we have registered close to 60,000 pieces of armory and around 5,000 order names, household names, and heraldic titles, and while it is still relatively easy to register new ones, the protection we offer to Society-wide peerage orders is broader than that accorded to the badges of individual people or the names of kingdom or lower-level orders. This makes it difficult to find a design that does not infringe
on already-registered items.
To manage this task, Laurel set up a working group on June 9. Built around a nucleus of heralds who had been on the Board-appointed Peerage committee, the group has a significant overlap with the ranged martial arts communities and consists of senior heralds whose expertise includes dealing with conflicts and studying names of orders. Its work has proceeded as expected, and is now approaching a stage where it would be good to have further input from the communities involved, to make sure the suggestions have no hidden issues that haven’t been considered.
There will be two meetings at the Pennsic War on August 8, at 9 am at the thrown weapons range and at 10:30 am at the archery range, where it will be possible to ask about the process and voice any concerns.
For those not able to attend these, there will be Zoom meetings on August 12, at 9 am and 8 pm Pacific Time (UTC-8). Anyone with interest is invited to attend the virtual or in person sessions.
From now on, any new submissions for names and armory that would conflict with the proposed name or armory of the order will be pended until these have gone through the registration process.
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