Noble Houses of Sorciere
My made-up background details about the various noble houses in Sorciere, which may or may not appear in my fics.
House Claes
Coat of Arms: Azure, a stag salient Argent, attired, unguled and gorged with a ducal coronet Or, all within a bordure Argent. (A white leaping stag, with a ducal coronet around its neck. The coronet, antlers and hooves are in gold. All against a blue background with a white border around)
Motto: Erudimini, qui judicatis terram (Be instructed, ye who judge the earth)
(chose a stag for their sigil, based on the Dukes of Devonshire)
One of the three Great Houses - Burke, Randall and Claes. House Hunt is making a bid for Great House status as is House Adeth.
Claes tend to be strong in earth magic, which is the most common type - but they are so strong it’s uncommon, and it leads to them having great wealth, in between their unusually good farmland and their ability to find and properly utilize mineral wealth.
House Stuart
Royal Arms: Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory Gules. (Red lion rampant with blue claws and tongue against a gold background, with a red border.)
Motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (No one provokes me with impunity)
(based on the historical royal house of Stuart)
House Adeth
Coat of Arms: Cendrée, a wolf passant regardant Sable armed Argent. (A black wolf on all fours, one forepaw slightly raised, looking backwards, with silver claws, on an ash-gray background)
Motto: Au mort (to the death)
Train of thought: (Au mort - Au death - Adeth)
Duke of Adeth is always also Warden of the Northern Marches. Based on the historical House of Percy, the earls of Northumberland.
House Hunt
Coat of Arms: Gules, two greyhounds courant argent, collared of the field. (Red background, two collared white greyhounds (hunting-dogs) leaping)
Motto: Cor nobyle, cor immobyle (a heart noble, a heart immovable)
(actually listed as a Hunt family motto - seems quite fitting for Mary)
Related to House Claes
House Ascart
Crest of Arms: Vert, a raven sable displayed and elevated. (A black raven with wings out and pointing upward, against a green background)
Motto: Loyalment je sers (I serve faithfully)
