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From: Charon <px_charon_at_yahoo.com>
To: "sca-middle_at_midrealm.org" <sca-middle_at_midrealm.org>
Subject: Re: [Mid] Mythbusting Heraldry
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:36:05 -0800 (PST)
What's the official word on the Asian image of a dragon? I've heard "no because there's no European standard for drawing it" and "no, because they belong to the Imperial and Royal houses of Japan, China, and Korea"
--Liu Kuaici
Related precedent:
"The use of an Oriental dragon is a step from period practice." [Ann Geddy, Atlantia-R, LoAR 01/2010].
From the glossary of terms: http://heraldry.sca.org/coagloss.html
Restricted:
Imperial Dragon: A five-toed Chinese dragon Symbol of the Emperor of China
Royal Dragon: A four-toed Chinese dragon Symbol of the Ruler of Korea
So Oriental/Chinese dragons are registerable as long as they have less than four or more than five toes. Also since they are considered a Step From Period Practice(SFPP) you cannot have anything else that is a SFPP in the design.
Step from Period Practice (SFPP): A step from period practice is an element or combination of elements not found in period names or armory that we nonetheless allow. While this is mostly used in terms of armory, it may also appear in older precedents on names. In older rulings this same concept may also be described as a weirdness. Any one submission can have one SFPP, two or more is cause for return.
Appendix G of the final draft of the New Rules for Submission has a list of a number of things that are SFPP. http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/rfs_final_draft.pdf
Hope that helps.
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