Welcome travelers. It’s been a long time. Late last year, we had some database problems on our website that caused a huge loss of posts, and while I was able to recreate a big piece of them, a lot of them have been lost to the aether, and I’ve had to recreate them as best I could.
We’re starting with one of our sigils, as it’s an easy one that I have a template for.
Jecraskia is a rhinotaur city in Lustra, not too far from Cynos, and mostly due west from Versali-Virai. They have an unusual sigil, in that their using a pattern that you don’t often see in Tellest cities so far. A pile describes a wedge on a shield that converges into a point, and that seemed to make sense for a rhinotaur’s horns. Thus, for the rhinotaur city of Jecraskia, we went with a pily pattern of brown and black. It’s simple, but in some ways elegant.
Rhinotaur aren’t known for their naval prowess, but they are crusaders and pilgrims aplenty, and it in their travels, they might move about with their banner on display, with or without variations of the sigils of their gods as well. They could have bannermen, or even a pennant on a wagon or something along those lines. And since it is sort of a plain sigil, perhaps those who have run across the rhinotaur of Jecraskia wouldn’t even realize how much trouble they were in at first—if they can’t seem to talk their way out of any issues, that is.
The chipped paint versions of their sigils are probably everywhere at this point. Rhinotaurs aren’t exactly fleetfooted, and they don’t have a soft step, so even the places that they’ve built for themselves in mind are going to have some wear and tear over time. It would not be unusual, then, for floors where the sigil was painted to get beat up.
As I mentioned before, the rhinotaurs are pretty religious. They would want to make sure that in certain places, like shrines and temples, that there were some fresher coats of paint. And by the way, it’s likely that for battle, the rhinotaurs of Jecraskia would paint their horns to reflect their sigil. Perhaps if they were in a formation, each would alternate in color, just like the brown and black we’ve seen all over the place here.
As always, we leave you with one final picture: the phone background. I hope you enjoy it!
That is it for our first sigil of the year, but for those of you who like these posts, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve got plenty more coming for this year. It’s good to be back, and we’ll see you again next week!
Michael DeAngelo
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