Quote Originally Posted by Taskr View Post
Your design is quite nice.

Simple curiosity: My understanding is that in the USA there is no official regulation on arms, except that for seals, badges, medals and such for the Executive office and States of the country with a heraldic authority within the US armed services forming the nucleus of heraldic support to government. My curiosity, then, is how does a person in the USA arrive at an authenticated personal arms. Or, do people assume arms if not inherited? Without a USA heraldic authority, could someone else take imbrius's arms as their own?
Yeah, I'm fuzzy on those details, too. I know one of the ways of "proving" that it belongs to you is through consistent use of it. I know there are private registries and I did a bunch of searches to see if there was anything like what I was thinking so I wouldn't encroach on someone else's identity. I found several in the SCA Roll of Arms that were similar enough to the first design (that with the fess argent) that I decided to switch to a bend argent instead.