JACo. Stark & Snow Heater Shield Textures

This item contains two separate realistic worn shield textures: Stark and Snow.

(1) The House Stark coat of arms is a grey direwolf, on an ice-white field.

Bastards do not have the right to use the arms of their families. Thus, a typical Westeros custom is that a bastard using a sigil (when knighted, for example) adds a distinction.

(2) This Snow coat of arms which takes inspiration from Jon Snow's direwolf Ghost, has the colors reversed and red eyes.

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The texture *only* works with the [VALR] Heater Shield: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/VALR-Heater-Shield/10725108

To apply the texture:
1. Rez the shield.
2. Edit the texture onto the shield. Make sure Alpha Mode is set to None.
3. Take and add to avatar.

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House Stark of Winterfell is one of the Great Houses of Westeros and the principal noble house of the north. In days of old they ruled as Kings of Winter, but since Aegon's Conquest they have been Wardens of the North and ruled as Lords of Winterfell. Their seat, Winterfell, is an ancient castle renowned for its strength.

Their sigil is a grey direwolf across a field of white. Their words are "Winter is Coming", one of only a few house mottoes to be a warning rather than a boast.

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Heraldry is the art and science of blazoning coats of arms. Heraldry is used by the royalty and nobility as a sign of status, and as such is an important part of the Seven Kingdoms feudal society. Most noble houses have their own designs, and variants of these designs are adopted only by members of the house. Coats of arms are commonly used by knights in tourneys and on the battlefields as a way to identify allied from enemy soldiers in the heat of battle. Conversely, mystery knights that want anonymity use blank or unknown coats of arms.

Heater shields were often used for heraldic display, or display of the coat of arms of the wielder. This lent itself to the relatively wide surface area of the shield and its shape, which made it excellently suited for display.