I had honestly never thought about this before, but I really like the idea that the pipes act as analogues to their heraldic depictions of having long waggly tongues.
I’ll be at VanCAF this weekend! If you’re in Vancouver you should drop by! It’s a free show and there will be a TON of amazing artists!!!!!
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Question for Rhonda and Django: What’s your favourite blends of pipe tobacco?
How do Nokks (such as Richard) feel about the idea that they’ll eventually become crazy, flesh eating monsters? I imagine being ageless doesn’t help with the anxiety of the situation?
Are there Kabauter and Elwetritsche in your World?
Could we see a praying mantis totem, as they are the closest real-world creature we have to a centaur?
As an S.C.A. herald, I’m well aware that a heraldic lion is routinely depicted with its mouth wide open and its tongue thrust out. It’s obviously supposed to look ferocious, but it has always occurred to me that it would only have to be drawn a little bit different for it to look like a classic feline yawn. (But no herald would ever be so mischievous as to draw it that way or to suggest that an artist do so.)
It’s pretty much the same with just about all animals depicted in heraldry; that their tongues are stuck out so as to make them look more fierce.
Stuck-out tongues are part of the style.
[Talking as a heraldic artist.]
People assume its tobacco….But what if its catnip?
;P
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