>>5202826>>5202842>>5202910>>5202936>>5203185You decided to do a party between your crest and the coat of arms of the old lord Random so you decided to describe your new crest. Since French is the language of heraldry you had no trouble describing it. Of course the absence of translation in english is not due to your narrator's inability to traduce it properly. Those who report such rumours deserve only to be beaten up on a breaking wheel and flayed alive, emasculated, to have boiling sulphur-lead sprinkled on them, then to be decapitated, dragged through the streets, and hung on the gibbet of Montfaucon like the d'Aunay brothers. So you explained.
-Parti, d'Azur au cheval d'or sommé d'une fleur de lys d'or et de carnation sombre au griffon d'or.
You used "carnation sombre" to describe the colour of mud because it was what was the closest to it. You did not even knew if it was considered a metal or a colour. The man seemed to smile at your description and said.
-I see you are a learned man my lord, but we call "carnation sombre" , "tenné" some use orange for it but in Bifuria we use brown. So it would be "Parti, d'Azur au cheval d'or sommé d'une fleur de lys d'or et de carnation sombre au griffon d'or." to be more precise.
You nodded, it was excellent, and you told the man to draw quickly so you would be ready for the ceremony. But you were satisfied of yourself. You needed to change clothes for the ceremony and finish your very interesting conversation with Lady Takable. Speaking of her you returned towards her and she had seemed to hear you ordering the man and she said.
-You seem to be well versed in heraldry, and you like poetry. You are not only a brave knight but a well read man ! You must have read a lot....
Well, the problem was here, and you had to find an answer. And what to do ? Say the truth ? You knew that in France illiteracy was common amongst the nobility, after all books were overrated and you preferred to let them to women and monks. Plus not knowing to read was excellent when you falsified the will of a dead relative or you fabricated claims on the lands of your neighbours. You could blame your subordinates who knew how to read and say that you thought that the documents were genuine since you couldn't read them ! But in India they seemed to all be literate, it was maybe because they were at peace for so much time that they had only books as interesting activities. So you needed to answer wisely.
