Coat of arms

The Kingdom's coat of arms^[1] is the distinctive emblem displayed on the pause menu as a escutcheon and on the town center past the village tents tier as a banner. Its colors (tinctures) also appear on banners and shields around the Kingdom.

It's a cosmetic feature, with no impact on gameplay mechanics.

Every new Monarch is randomly assigned a fresh coat of arms.

New Lands & Two Crowns – For a custom coat of arms, players may use the blazon syntax or one of the available generators.

Kingdom: Classic – Coat of arms are randomly generated at the beginning of a new Kingdom and there is no way to customize it. See history note.

BlazonEdit

In heraldic terminology, blazon is the formal description of a coat of arms. In the game's settings, the player can set a custom coat of arms for the Kingdom by typing the blazon with the proper syntax in the text box and selecting "Set Blazon". That syntax is: ^[2]

[1st Tincture], [Ordinary] [2nd Tincture], [Charge] [3rd Tincture]

(Commas and brackets are included here for clarity and should be removed.)

• Ordinary: the geometric patterns in the background.
• Charge: the animal or shape in the center.
• Tincture: the color or metal of the prior feature.
  • The first tincture is the primary color for the Kingdom, and it appears on the King's cape, on the Queen's dress and on banners.
  • The second tincture modifies the ordinary, and it appears on banners and shields.
  • The third tincture modifies the charge.

For example, navy a saltire white a lion red produces a navy-colored coat of arms with a white saltire and a red lion (image on top). There is a multitude of possible combinations for a Kingdom's coat of arms.

TincturesEdit

The table below displays all available colors that can be used on the background, the ordinary and the charge of the coat of arms.

Due to a bug, charges cannot have a tincture with a name that starts with another tincture name. For example, the game reads both "orange" and "orchid" as "or", as shown in their images. The colors falling into this are: Aquamarine, BlueViolet, Goldenrod, GreenYellow, LavenderBlush, Orange, OrangeRed, Orchid, and YellowGreen. They can, though, be perfectly used on the background and on the ordinaries.

OrdinariesEdit

The articles (i.e. a/an) on the following are required — discluding the last six, repeated-pattern ordinaries (lozengy, chequy, bendy, bendy sinister, chevronny, and five annulets.) A blazon must have exactly one ordinary, so if the player wants a solid background, he or she can choose any ordinary and make it the same colour as the background.

Kingdom: Two Crowns – The Shogun version of the ordinaries look quite different. They don't show charges although they have to be defined to work properly.

Ordinary	Medieval	Shogun		Ordinary	Medieval	Shogun
A Fess				A Pale
A Cross				A Saltire
Party Per Pale				Party Per Cross
A Chief				A Bordure
Lozengy				Chequy
Bendy				Bendy Sinister
Chevronny				Five Annulets

ChargesEdit

Kingdom: Two Crowns – Please note, that the shogun versions don't show any charges although they have to be defined in order to work properly.

Charge	Image		Charge	Image
An Armadillo			A Bear
A Dragon			An Eagle
A Fish			A Hydra
A Lion			A Lizard
An Owl			A Snake
A Squirrel			A Stag
A Swan			A Wolf's Head
Exclusive:[3] These charges cannot appear in new game blazon and can only be set through customization.
A Crumps			An Eye
A Gronkh			A Jack Pattillo
A Kiwo			A Sips
An Xisuma
Kingdom: Two Crowns only
A Bald Eagle			A Greed
A Ram			A Sheep
A Tortoise

GeneratorsEdit

Kingdom: Two Crowns has an embed coat of arms generator that can be accessed by clicking on the heraldic shield on the pause menu. For the previous games of the series, players may explore the instructions of this article and set a blazon themselves, or use one of the generators made by the community.

• a desktop version made by Tobe Continued
• an online version made by Cl00e9ment

Achievement decorationsEdit

Kingdom: New Lands – There are four common and one special achievement that grant unique decorations to the blazon. These decorations only appear on the pause menu's escutcheon, not changing any banner in the Kingdom's structures. These achievements with their rewarded decorations are listed bellow:

Achievement	Requirements	Decoration's description	prvw
Birth of a Reign	Escape any island.	Carved leaves on both sides of the blazon.
Interior Decoration	Escape 3 islands in a row without losing/restarting.	A pair of deer antlers.
Heraldic Achievement	Escape any 5 islands in a row without losing/restarting.[4]	A pair of lit candles on metal candle holders.
Crowned	Escape the 5th island.	A golden Crown on the top of the blazon.
Skull Island	Destory all portals in the Skull Island.	Four skulls at the bottom of the blazon.

All decorations are removed if the player starts a new game from the map, except for the skulls and the crown — these can only be removed after deleting the save files and starting a brand new save game.

A coat of arms with no extra decoration.	One with antlers, leaves and candles.	And another with skulls and crown.

Classic and Two Crowns – The pause menu's escutcheon also has decorations that are based on the Monarch's success. They appear to persist across different Monarchs, but their connections to achievements are less visible.

BugsEdit

Game	Version	Platform	Bug
	1.2.3 and onwards	all	Using ⌫ Backspace when typing the blazon makes the "Options" submenu close back to main menu.
	all		There is no way to customize blazons.
		PC/Mac	"An Xisuma" charge is bugged. Typing it renders "A Tortoise" in the shield.

HistoryEdit

Date	Game	Platform	Version	Change
Aug 29, 2019		All	1.0.4	Improved color options for blazon editor. Shogun ordinaries were renamed. Eleven (of the fourteen) ordinaries in the Shogun biome were renamed, one can no longer be used in game, and two remained the same. With this change, the calls lozengy and a bordure generate the same type of ordinary. [5]
Apr 9, 2019		All	1.0.4 - R6761	A blazon generator with a visual interface was introduced.
Dec 11, 2018		All	1.0.0	The Shogun style was introduced.
Aug 9, 2016		All	1.0.0	Editing the coat of arms was introduced through heraldic descriptions in the options menu.
Apr 11, 2016		All	1.2.0	Realigned menu graphics (day counter/coat of arms). Fix the saving process of the coat of arms. There was an ability to lock an eventualy loved coat of arms for future kingdoms at the village tents, but it was removed from the game. [6] The randomly generated blazonry could be made permanent by spending three coins on the banner at the town center. If a player wished to go back to randomly generated emblems, it could be done by double-clicking on the escutcheon in the pause menu.

Heraldic terminologyEdit

Escutcheon: The shield itself.

Field: The background of the shield, usually composed of one or more tinctures (see colours & metals below)

Charges: Any emblem occupying the escutcheon, be it a geometric pattern (ordinaries) or a depiction of some beast. In French blazon, ordinaries are called pièces and other charges are meubles.

Ordinaries: Geometric patterns emblazoned upon the escutcheon.

Helm: The helm above the shield, facing dexter.

Supporters: Figures to the left and right of the shield, usually depicted as holding it up.

Mantling: Drapes above the helmet and to the sides of the shield.

Colours: Gules (red), azure (blue), sable (black), vert (green), and purpure (purple).^[7]

Metals: Or (gold) and argent (silver).^[7]

Chief and Base: Refer to the shield's up & down, respectively.

Dexter and Sinister: Refer to the shield's right & left, respectively.^[7]

A bend pointing dexter originates from dexter chief to sinister base. Ordinaries are assumed pointing dexter unless otherwise specified.

GalleryEdit

Please note that the following blazons may also appear in any colours.

A red blazon with a white cross and a black dragon charge.

An orange/black chequy blazon with a blue eagle charge.

An olive/white party-per-cross blazon with a blue hydra charge.

A yellow/black bendy sinister blazon with a white bear charge.

A teal/black bendy sinister blazon with a gold bear charge.

An olive blazon with five black annulets and a white lizard charge.

An indigo/white chevronny blazon with a black owl charge.

A green/black chevronny blazon with a white snake charge.

A pink blazon with a white cross and a teal squirrel charge.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Aka: armorial bearing, blazonry, crest, emblem, escutcheon, heraldic device, heraldry, or insignia.
2. ↑ How to Create a Blazon!, a guide by Bow Vagrant's. 18 August 2016.
3. ↑ Crumps, "An Eye" (Jack Septic Eye), Gronkh, Jack Pattillo, Kiwo, Sips and Xisuma are youtubers who have played either Kingdom Classic or New Lands.
4. ↑ Islands can be repeated for this achievement. — Candles reappeared in a brand new save game after doing islands 1, 2, 1 again, 2 again and 3, i.e.: five islands in a row, without losing or restarting. Tested in v1.2.8 by Sapador.
5. ↑

   Old name	New name
   LOZENGY	BENDY
   BENDY	A PALE
   A PALE	A CHIEF
   A CHIEF	FIVE ANNULETS
   FIVE ANNULETS	A FESS
   A FESS	A CROSS
   A CROSS	A SALTIRE
   A SALTIRE	PARTY PER CROSS
   PARTY PER CROSS	CHEVRONNY
   CHEVRONNY	BENDY SINISTER
   BENDY SINISTER	PARTY PER PALE

6. ↑ Dev said "Turns out we remove this feature", 22 Nov 2016, on a Steam forum; and "Does that option never appear, even past level 2?", one year later, on another thread.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Heraldry - a guide to your Coat of Arms. Ancestors of Dover Ltd.