Field Conflicts

Breakdown of clearing conflicts between different fields in armory:

Substantial Change of Field for Fielded Armory:

as of 16 May 2022

Total Addition or Removal of Division:

Any divided field is substantially changed partition from any plain field. The multiply divided furs are considered plain fields for this purpose.

Substantial Change of Direction of Division:

Note that while changing the number of divisions (2-part vs 3-part vs 4-part, etc.) OFTEN creates a substantial change, it doesn't always, particularly in cases where the different fields share the same direction of division. So per pale does NOT get an SC from paly, bendy is NOT get an SC from per bend, etc. since in each pair the divisions are in the same direction. (They get DCs for change of number of pieces.)

Quarterly and per saltire substantially different from each other and substantially different from all other four-part divisions (such as per pale and per chevron, or per bend and per fess). The other four-part divisions are only substantially different from one another if they share no lines of division in common. All four-part divisions are substantially different from divisions that split the field evenly into more than four partitions.

...While checky is substantially different from all other grid-like partitions (with diagonal component/s, i.e., those formed by two sets of parallel lines, such as lozengy and barry-bendy); these other grid-like partitions are not substantially different from one another. This is because they all create a general impression of lozenges...

These categories are all substantially different from each other:

• per pale, paly [vertical]
• per fess, barry [horizontal]
• per bend, bendy [diagonal falling from left to right]
• per bend sinister, bendy sinister [diagonal rising from left to right]
• per chevron, chevronelly [^-shaped]
• per chevron inverted, chevronelly inverted [V-shaped]
• gyronny (any number of pieces) [pie pieces]
• per pall [Y-shaped]
• per pall inverted [upside-down Y-shaped]
• per saltire [X-shaped]
• quarterly [+-shaped]
• other divisions into four equal parts (may have substantial difference between themselves, if share no lines in common, such as per pale and per chevron vs per fess and per bend sinister)
• party of six
• checky
• lozengy and all other grid-like partitions (such as barry bendy and per pale and chevronelly

SENA A.5.F.1. Armory Conflict: Standards for Difference through a Single Substantial Change of Field for Fielded Armory

Substantial Change of Field Tincture for Field-Primary Armory:

as of 16 May 2022

If the field of a new field-primary submission has no tinctures in common with the field of a protected piece of armory, they do not conflict.

If a new submission with a field divided into two sections, three sections, quarterly, or per saltire has changed the tincture of each section of that field and each has at least one tincture on the field that the other does not, the two are substantially different and do not conflict.

Furs are considered to be different from one another and from their base tincture. The addition of a field treatment is also a change of tincture.

SENA A.5.F.2. Armory Conflict: Substantial Change of Tincture for Field-Primary Armory

Difference through Two Distinct Changes to the Field

extracted as of 16 May 2022

Distinctly changing the tinctures, direction of partition lines, style of partition lines, OR number of pieces in a partition of the field is one distinct change (DC).

Change of Tincture:

If the tincture of at least half the field is changed, it is a distinct change (DC). Includes swapping or rotating the tinctures of a field evenly divided into two, three, or four parts, but NOT for swapping the tinctures of a field divided into more than four parts. Furs and fields with field treatments are considered different tinctures from their underlying tincture and from other variants which share an underlying tincture.

Change of Direction of Partition Lines:

A change in direction of half the lines of a design gives a distinct change.

The addition, removal, or change of a partition line or group of partition lines that changes the organization of tinctures in ways that affect at least half the field is generally a distinct change.

A change of any of the major single partition from one to another (as single lines or multiple forms) is at least a distinct change (may be an SC):

• per bend,
• per bend sinister,
• per pale, per fess,
• per chevron, and
• per chevron inverted.

A change from any of the above to the following is at least a DC:

• per saltire,
• quarterly,
• gyronny (of any number of pieces),
• per pall, and
• per pall inverted,
• checky, and
• lozengy
• also a change between any of these

Change of Style of Partition Lines:

All partition lines have a style, either plain (straight) or complex.

A change of style of half the partition lines is a distinct change (DC).

The types of complex lines which are distinctly different are discussed in Appendix M.

...In general, there is a DC between variants that belong to different groups. In addition, there is in general a DC between any two lines in the "other" group, as it is a catch-all with no relationship between them. ...lines of division listed as "straight line and variants" also conflict with a straight line.

• Straight line and variants: plain, ployé enarched, arrondi (for divisions greater than four)
• Square: embattled, dovetailed, bretessed, embattled counterembattled, raguly, denticulada
• Wavy: Wavy, nebuly, urdy
• Long: Rayonny
• Jagged: indented, engrailed, invected, dancetty, lozengy
• Other: bevilled, potenty, flory-counterflory, indented fleury at the points, left step/right step, rompu, triangular

For a two-sided ordinary, such as a fess or a pale, there is a DC between "dancetty" and other line styles in the "jagged" group

Change of Number of Pieces:

Changing the number of pieces into which the field is divided is a distinct change (DC).

...a whole field with 1, 2, 3, or 4 pieces has a distinct change from armory with any other number, but above that there is no Dc.

When considering changes to only half of an already divided field, a half with 1, 2, or 3 pieces can have a DC from armory with a half of any other number of pieces, but any number beyond that is considered the same.

The exception is party of six (effectively per fess and paly of three) which was seen as a distinct field division in period. Therefore, it has one DC from checky and designs that create large numbers of lozenges (such as paly bendy). However, it does NOT have a DC from designs such as Paly and per fess which create the same overall impression.

Fieldless Armory:

A piece of fieldless armory automatically has one distinct change (DC) for the field from any other armory, fielded or fieldless.

Tinctureless armory, as described in A.3.A.2, is treated as fieldless armory for this purpose. However, no DC may be given for tincture of charges when comparing a tinctureless badge to any other design, including changes of tincture due to addition of lines of division.

SENA A.5.G.1. Armory Conflict: Standards for Difference through Two Distinct Changes: Changes to the Field