The Order Of The Scarlet Blade [NA/EU][Level 32+]

[Jarold]

I was thinking of ideas for it (and was playing around with some prototypes).

Would we want some more weapon types in it (spear,arrow,bolt), or still just the sword? Stylized, or more graphic?

I was thinking of having the sword through a half-broken nord helmet.

edit: Here are some mockups. Of course, it is easy to change colong/position/size of elements as I'm using an SVG file. It really just depends on what kind of keel the house wants to have. I think the dark, rich colors look good for the background. I've provided some ideas. The real decision would be what we want the primary color of the emblem/shields/heraldic armor to be. A dark red might look good and still give the "Scarlet" feel when in the smaller emblem.

If anyone wants the SVG to play with their own variants, let me know, and I can supply it.

Here is the final image unless there are comments:

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For reference, here are the historical banners:
_Sphinx_:[Image: stockbackREDBlade.jpg] Clickeverywhere:

My Prototypes:
1: sword through cracked Nord helmet
2: kinda cheesy hero on sword
3: more Swadian-esque (lion is the Swadian symbol -- if we want to integrate more into the game world)
4: etched skull (with solid sword, shaded sword, stylized sword)
5: evil skull
6: tribal skull
7: stylized sword with more line-art skull (I created the stylized sword myself, so it's easy to make alterations)
8: "mocking" the Nord Raven, kind-of Templar Knights-esque
9: triple swords
10: triple swords that fits the round shield/emblem section
11: redone Clickeverywhere style

10 (stripe, w/ or w/o skull, 3 swords, colors changeable) is my current favorite. I do like the cleanness/classiness of just the three swords on the red (or with a gray or white background) with stripe. I also personally like the lion, but maybe just red on clean white with no line, or at most the single vertical line.

Note: no one may use these without my permission


3:
The bigger lion can also work if I move it down some, but we'd lose the feet in the round shield/emblem category, but have it on the rest of the shields/armor. For reference (but wouldn't be part of design), the circle in the 5th one represents what you'd see in the emblem. I could move the lion down to get the whole sword tip, or leave it centered.
10:

11: Turpis':

Some Ingames of the two in poll (resized to new template and shield positions)
3:   10:
I think the vertical stripe on the lion doesn't work as well as all white with horizontal red stripe(s).



OK, so I'm pushing the last one --

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1: 2: 9:

Wings:
11: Blondin's:[Image: sbbanner.png]

Skulls
4solid) (shaded) (stylized)
5: 6: 8:
7:
10:  

Blondin's:  [Image: sbbanner3.jpg] [Image: sbbanner4.jpg]

Some of mine in action (sorry for cheap old round shield, not wasting money on a better one)
3-2: 7-2:
10-1: 10-3:

2012-4-21 - went through and redid prototypes with the correct layer blending so the flag texture shows up in all elements, added triple swords, added Blondin's submissions. Somebody stop me, or I'll just keep generating new ones.
2012-4-22 - reorged to put options that more people seem to be liking in the bottom grouping, added some color variants, removed skull choices
2012-4-23 - added Turpis' prototype, added new #10, action shots
2012-5-3 added final for approval

Its...its..its beautiful. Well done except, for one thing is it just me or does it look orange?