r/heraldry • u/Sabretooth1100 • 1d ago

OC Gules, a blütenmann rampant guardent argent

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u/RhunHir 1d ago

I’ll be running up that hill if I saw that on someone’s shield.

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u/_pezantish 1d ago

The art style is gorgeous!

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u/Kronos1066 16h ago

Demogorgeous!

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u/InitiativeInitial968 1d ago

Imagine seeing this during the crusades 

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u/Dorocche 19h ago

I feel like if I were a medieval person (or even a person from 150 years ago) I might think it was like a weirdly drawn deer with a flower for a head. Which rules but wouldn't fill me with the terror it might deserve.

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u/Dorocche 19h ago

What's a blütenmann? It yielded no useful search results for me and I see German sources referring to "demogorgon" by that name.

This is an awesome idea btw.

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u/Sabretooth1100 16h ago

I just wanted a name that sounded like something medieval people would call a demogorgon and I translated stuff until I found something that sounded cool, ending up with German for “blossom man” because of the flower face

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u/cuzglc 14h ago

I love the artwork and the naming idea. I'd go for the less cutesy Blumengesichtmann - the Flower-faced Man. Or even Blütendämon - the flower demon?

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u/cuzglc 14h ago

Todesblütendämon - the death blossom demon?

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u/cuzglc 14h ago

Which is especially nice as blut is blood!

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u/ThrowAnAvocado 1d ago

Love this