Branch Groups in the Kingdom of the Outlands
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Aarquelle, Barony of
(Pueblo, Colorado)- Name registered in March of 1987 as "Aarquelle, Shire of", and updated in to "Aarquelle, Barony of" in April 2017. Name derived from the German "Aar" meaning bird of prey or eagle and "Quelle" meaning fountain.
- Device registered in July of 1988: Barry wavy azure and argent, an eagle displayed Or within a laurel wreath vert.
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al-Barran, Barony of
(Albuquerque/Tijeras/Corrales/Los Lunas, New Mexico)- Name registered in July of 1974. Intended to mean "the Scorpion" in Arabic?
- Device registered in July of 1974: Sable, a chevron argent, overall a scorpion and in base a laurel wreath, both Or.
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Bedes College
(University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado)- Name registered in April of 2003. Name is intended as a shortened version of "College of the Venerable Bede".
- Device registered in April of 2003: Azure, an open book within a laurel wreath and on a chief Or a lion dormant sable.
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Blackwater Keep, Shire of
(Portales and Clovis, New Mexico)- Name registered in May of 2005.
- Device registered in July of 2005: Or, a tower within a laurel wreath gules and a base engrailed sable scaly Or.
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Blaiddwyn, College of
(the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico)- Name registered in March of 1994. Name derived from the Gaelic words "Blaidd" meaning wolf and the deuterotheme "-wyn" meaning white.
- Device registered in March of 1994: Argent, on a pale gules a wolf sejant affronty overall a laurel wreath vert.
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Bofharrach, Canton of
(Greeley, Colorado)- Name registered in November of 1995. Name derived from the Gaelic words "Bo" meaning cow/cattle and "farrach" meaning a meeting/gathering place.
- Device registered in February of 1996: Or, a cow statant sable within a laurel wreath vert, a bordure embattled sable.
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Bryngolau, Shire of
(Los Alamos, NM)- Name registered in November of 2011
- Device registered in November of 2011: Per chevron gules and azure, a demi-sun issuant from the line of division and a laurel wreath Or.
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Caer Galen, Barony of
(Boulder County, Colorado)- Name registered in May of 1980 as "Caer Galen, Shire of" and updated in January of 2004 to "Caer Galen, Barony of" in January of 2004. Name derived from the Welsh words "Caer" meaning castle/fort, and "Galan" meaning noise. It was originally intended to mean "Valley of Song".
- Device registered in July of 1981: Per bend rayonny azure and Or, a harp and a laurel wreath counterchanged.
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Caerthe, Barony of
(Denver, Colorado)- Name registered in January of 1973.
- Device registered in January of 1973 and reblazoned in December of 1994: Or, a laurel wreath vert and a chief embattled sable.
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Citadel of the Southern Pass, Barony of the
(El Paso and Hudspeth Counties, Texas)- Name registered in February of 1984.
- Device registered in July of 1980: Azure, masoned argent, a goblet within a laurel wreath and a chief embattled Or.
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Draca Mor, Shire of
(Grand Junction, CO)- Name registered in January of 1985 (via Atenveldt).
- Device registered in July of 1986 (via Atenveldt): Ermine, within a serpent-headed torc opening to chief vert surmounted by a sword sable, a laurel wreath vert.
- Branch was transferred to the Outlands (from Artemesia) in 2015
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Dragonsspine, Barony of
(Colorado Springs, Colorado)- Name registered in November of 1980 via Atenveldt.
- Device registered in November of 1980 and reblazoned in May of 1991: Or, four gyrons in chief azure, their points conjoined and surmounted by a wingless dragon dormant purpure, and in base a laurel wreath vert.
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Drygestan, Shire of
(Santa Fe, New Mexico)- Name registered in December of 1989. Name derived from the Middle English (Saxon) words meaning "Dry Stone". (Originally submitted as "Dryganstan")
- Device registered in December of 1989: Per pale argent and vert, a blasted tree couped sable, its trunk surmounted by a laurel wreath Or.
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Fontaine Dans Sable, Barony of
(Farmington, New Mexico)- Name registered in January of 1983 as "Fontaine Dans Sable, Shire of" and updated in March of 2004 to "Fontaine, Barony of". Name derived from the French words "Fontaine", meaning "Fountain", "Sable", meaning "Sands", and the preposition "Dans", meaning "In" to mean "Fountain in the Sand".
- Device registered in January of 1985: Argent, in pale a three-tiered fountain sable spouting azure and a laurel wreath vert.
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Gleann Medónach, Shire of
(Roswell, New Mexico)- Name registered in August of 1991. Originally submitted as "Glenn Medon na Miadan", the grammar was corrected by Laurel. From the Gaelic words "Gleann", meaning "Valley", and "Meadhon", meaning "Middle".
- Device registered in June of 1992: Azure, an acorn within a laurel wreath Or, all between three oak trees couped argent.
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Hawk's Hollow, Canton of
(Westminster/Thornton/Commerce City, Colorado)- Name registered in November of 1991.
- Device registered in November of 1991: Gules, a hawk stooping, wings addorsed, and on a chief engrailed Or, three laurel wreaths vert.
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Kahlland, Shire of
(Hobbs, New Mexico)- Name registered in October of 1994. Name derived from the German word "Kahl", meaning "Bleak, Barren" to mean "Barren Land".
- Device registered in April of 1999: Vert, a sun Or between two trees blasted and eradicated and a laurel wreath argent.
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Nahrun Kabirun, Shire of
(Las Cruces, New Mexico)- Name registered in November of 1989. Name derived from the Arabic for "Great River". Originally submitted as "Naher-Momteze".
- Device registered in November of 1989: Per fess wavy azure and argent, two bars wavy counterchanged between a decrescent argent and a laurel wreath vert.
- The following badge was registered in March of 1993: Azure crusilly flory, on a bend argent five crosses flory azure.
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Plattefordham, Shire of
(Casper, Wyoming)- Name registered in November of 1991. Name derived from the French word "Platt", meaning "Flat", with the Middle English term "Fordham", meaning "Homestead".
- Device registered in November of 1991: Argent, masoned sable, in pale a sheaf of arrows, banded and a laurel wreath gules between flaunches azure.
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Rio de las Animas, Shire of
(Durango, Colorado)- Name registered in September of 2002.
- Device registered in September of 2002: Or, on a chevron wavy azure three morions argent and in dexter chief a laurel wreath vert.
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Saint Golias, College of
(New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, in Socorro, New Mexico)- Name registered in July of 1981. Saint Golias was a saint created by 15th century medical students. He is the patron saint of drinking and revelry.
- Device registered in September of 1987: Gules, a goblet within a laurel wreath, in chief a bunch of grapes, slipped and leaved, all within a bordure Or.
- The following badge for the Goliard Guard was registered in September of 1987: Azure, a sword bendwise sinister argent between two goblets Or.
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Scola Metallorum, College of
(The Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado)- Name registered in February of 1999.
- Device registered in February of 1999: Azure, a donkey rampant contourny argent within a laurel wreath Or.
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Unser Hafen, Barony of
(Larimer, Logan, Morgan, and Weld Counties, Colorado)- Name registered in February of 1991. Name derived from the German words "Unser", meaning "Our", and "Hafen", meaning "House/Haven". Originally submitted as "Uns Haven" (unshaven) because all of the men in the Barony had beards.
- Device registered in August of 1989: Vert, a portcullis Or within a laurel wreath argent, all within a bordure embattled Or.
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White Mountain, Shire of
(Alamogordo/Holloman AFB, New Mexico)- Name registered in January of 1985.
- Device registered in December of 1989: Azure, on a pile inverted throughout between six mullets in annulo argent, in pale a sword palewise gules and a laurel wreath vert.
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Windkeep, Shire of
(Cheyenne/Warren AFB, Wyoming)- Name registered in March of 1987.
- Device registered in March of 1987: Argent, a laurel wreath vert between a griffin passant to sinister sable, armed gules, and a base embattled sable.
- The following badge for the populace was registered in November of 1995: Argent, a griffin passant to sinister and a base embattled sable.
Disbanded or Changed Groups
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Anlieplic Dun, Shire of (Disbanded in August of 1997)
(Los Alamos, New Mexico)- Name registered in October of 1980. Name derived from the Old English words "Anlepe" meaning alone/solitary with the suffix "-lic" making it into the adjective "lonely", and the word "Dun" meaning mountain/hill.
- Device registered in October of 1980: Per pale sable and argent, a laurel wreath between two Dun dragons combattant counterchanged.
- The following badge associated with this name was registered in December of 1981: (Fieldless) In dexter two chevronels surmounted by in sinister a chevronel all within an annulet sable.
- The following badge associated with this name was registered in November of 1984: Per chevron sable and argent semy of swords sable, in chief a crescent argent, for the Privy Council of Anlieplic Dun. The name itself was never registered.
A Dun dragon is a charge invented by Astrid av Arvika resembling a two-horned dinosaur. Drawings here. -
Bloodstone, Canton of
(Southwest Denver, Colorado)- Name registered in November of 2011 (Originally registered as "Readstan, Canton of" in March of 2007).
- Device registered in January of 2008 : Gules, a gryphon segreant argent, in base a laurel wreath Or.
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Cader Mohr an Bogleleys (Name changed to "Glen Ora, Shire of" in November of 1989 and then to "Gleann Medónach, Shire of" in August of 1991)
(Roswell, New Mexico)- Name registered in August of 1979. Name derived from the Scots Gaelic words meaning "Mighty Fortress on the Goblin Fields".
- Device not registered.
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Caer Mithin Halle, Shire of
(Carlsbad, New Mexico)- Name registered in January of 1985. Name derived from the words "Caer", which is Welsh for "castle", "Mithin", which is Middle English (Saxon) for "hidden/concealed" and "Halle" which is Middle English for "hall"
- Device registered in January of 1985: Sable, a flame proper within a laurel wreath Or, all within a bordure argent semy of thistles purpure, slipped and leaved vert.
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Disstadt, Shire of (Disbanded around 1980)
(Cañon City, Colorado)- Name not registered. Name intended to be Germanic, no translation known.
- No device is associated with this name.
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Drachenhaus, Shire of (Disbanded around 1996)
(Rawlins, Wyoming)- Name returned from Kingdom 10/95 for conflict with the Shire of Dragonsheim in the Kingdom of Drachenwald
- Device returned in 10/95 for further work: Azure, a dragon passant contourny Or, in chief two laurel wreaths argent and in base a mountain proper.
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Dùthaich Beinne Àird, Shire of
(Laramie, Wyoming)- Name registered in April of 1995.
- Device registered in September of 1997: Per pale azure and sable, an elephant rampant argent, armed, within a laurel wreath Or.
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Glen Ora, Shire of (Name changed to "Gleann Medónach, Shire of" in August of 1991)
(Roswell, New Mexico)- Name registered in November of 1989. Name derived from the Gaelic words "Gleann", meaning "Valley", and "Orach", meaning "Gold"-"Golden Valley"
- Device registered in November of 1989: Per fess nebuly azure and Or, a wingless wivern statant argent, armed and maintaining in its tail a stalk of wheat Or, a laurel wreath vert.
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Hinterland, Shire of
(Scottsbluff/Gering, Nebraska)- Name registered in June of 1992.
- Device registered in October of 1992: Gules, a dragon dormant in annulo between three laurel wreaths Or.
- The following badge for the populace of Hinterland was registered in September of 1995: Gules, a dragon dormant in annulo and a bordure rayonny Or.
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Loch Thioram, Shire of
(Deming and Silver City, New Mexico)- Name registered in September of 1992. Name derived from the Gaelic words "Loch", meaning "Lake", and "Tioram", meaning "Dry" to mean "Dry Lake".
- Device registered in September of 1992. Barry wavy Or and gules, a phoenix argent within a laurel wreath vert.
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Northwolde, Incipient Shire of
(Gillette/Rozet, Wyoming)- No name and device registered.
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Rammes Keep, College of
(Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado)- Name registered in May of 2010.
- Device registered in September of 2011: Vert, a ram's head cabossed and in base a laurel wreath argent, a bordure embattled Or.
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Saint Martin's Abbey, College of (Name changed to "Rammes Keep, College of" in May of 2010))
(Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado)- No name or device registered.
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Scorpion's Hollow, Shire of (Name changed to "Blackwater Keep, Shire of" in May of 2005)
(Portales and Clovis, New Mexico)- Name registered in March of 1987. Name means "A Place of Scorpions".
- Device registered in March of 1987: Gules, eight scorpions in annulo, facing outward, all within a laurel wreath Or.
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Stonehaven, Incipient College of (Name changed to "Saint Martin's Abbey, College of" in ????)
(Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado)- The name was returned for conflict with an SCA group from the Middle Kingdom which has since been disbanded. It was resubmitted as Saint Martin's Abbey but was not registered.
- The device, Sable, on a cross-crosslet fitched argent, a cross fleury fitched sable surmounted by an escutcheon sable charged with a portcullis Or within a bordure embattled, all within a laurel wreath argent, was returned on the March of 1995 for Complexity, Pretense, Layering, and Style.
- The following badge for the populace of Stonehaven was returned along with the device in March of 1995 for the same reasons as the device: (Fieldless) On a cross-crosslet fitched argent, a cross fleury fitched sable surmounted by an esctcheon sable charged with a portcullis Or within a bordure embattled argent.
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Tigres de las Montañas, Collegio de los (Name changed to "Tygre's Keep, College of" in 1993)
(The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado)- Name registered in October of 1991. The name was originally intended to be "Tyger's Keep", but that was a direct conflict with a group in Atlantia - "Tygre's Keep". When Atlantia released the name "Tygre's Keep", this group chose to change its registered name. The change was officially made in August of 1997. Until then, the device below was still registered to Tigres de la Montanas:
- Device registered in October of 1991: Purpure, a tyger passant between three roundels Or each charged with a laurel wreath sable.
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Threespires, College of
(Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado)- Name registered in July of 2006.
- Device registered in July of 2006: Sable, three towers and a laurel wreath, three and one, and a chief embattled Or.
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Tygre's Keep, College of
(The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado)- Name registered in November of 1993.
- Device registered in October of 1991: Purpure, a tyger passant between three roundels Or each charged with a laurel wreath sable.
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Villaleon, Shire of
Walsenburg, CO- Name registered in September of 2011
- Device registered in September of 2011: Argent, a lion passant purpure, in sinister chief a sun gules within a laurel wreath vert.
- Populace Badge registered in December of 2012: (Fieldless) A lion's head erased purpure.
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Willowgate, Incipient Shire of (Disbanded in April of 1998)
(Taos, New Mexico)- Name registered in February of 1998.
- No device registered.