About coat of arms names
Every result works upward from the shield, through "a traditional boar's head" crest and a torse carrying the shield's colors, to "an elegant drapery, or mantling". The technical terms come pre-explained, so the outputs read cleanly even when readers don't know a coronet from a crest. Assign one to each noble house early and the supporters become recurring set dressing.
How coat of arms names are built
This builds a blazon, a written description of a heraldic achievement, not a name. Five sentence templates walk down the design: the shield shape and supporters, the coronet, the helm and crest, the mantling, then the field pattern, charge and motto. They draw from 22 trait banks, including a 119-entry charge pool, a 67-entry crest pool and a 25-entry motto bank. Roll each line and the achievement assembles top to bottom.
The field itself carries five contrasting tinctures arranged tiered into three horizontal courses, charged with a single falling star above and one well-cut fringed banner below, all evenly weighted in their setting, while a weathered parchment ribbon wound about the supporters' feet reads: Struck once, twice forged.
section: field + charge + motto + traits: tincture count, arrangement, charges, ribbon placement and motto
the field line sets the pattern, central emblems and motto in one pass
Crowning the whole sits a delicately tined coronet of smoked steel over a cap of cloth of woven gold thread, the rim set with a single large solitaire over the brow.
section: coronet + traits: tine style, material, cap fabric, and gem detail
the coronet line encodes rank through tines, cap and gems
Beneath the crown rides a plain pot-helm dented along the brow, and from its wreath springs a crest weathered to a soft and ghostly grey, fashioned as a salmon arched over a small waterfall.
section: helm + crest + traits: helm type, wreath, and crest figure
the helm-and-crest block names the helmet style and the figure it carries
Naming notes
The terms are real heraldic vocabulary: coronet, helm, crest, torse, mantling, charge and motto, so the output doubles as a teaching example of how a coat of arms is structured. Each line is independent, letting you pin a fixed crest (a boar's head) while re-rolling the supporters or motto. The charge bank is the largest at 119 entries, so the central emblem carries most of the variety; treat the Latin-style mottoes as flavour text, not a real family history.
Questions about coat of arms names
- Does this generate a family name or a description of arms?
- A description, a blazon. It writes out the achievement piece by piece, shield, coronet, helm, crest, mantling, charge and motto, rather than producing a surname or house name.
- Are the heraldic terms accurate?
- The structure follows real heraldry, naming the coronet, helm, crest, torse, mantling, charge and motto in the order an achievement is described, so it works as a reference for how arms are built.
- Can I use the motto and charge as my own world's lore?
- Use them as starting flavour. The charge pulls from 119 figures and the motto from 25 lines, all interchangeable English phrases rather than an attested history, so treat them as a draft to adapt.