I must admit I’m rather surprised nobody has done this Game Of Thrones style name/flag/motto combo before - except for House Baggins when the joke really began. Given that I did it for the clans of Vampire: The Requiem before the show even started...
Of course, it then made me wonder what the Houses would be in Middle-Earth. And it occurred to me that some of their leaders would be “great kings of men...”
That would be a bit awkward in the event of a Fellowship of heroes from the various Houses, having to fight their ancestors.
Look at how much trouble House Skywalker had there...
And a further thought - each of these great kings becomes like their heraldic beast. The great dragon, the golden lion... the mockingbird. Maybe not the squid, much as they deserve it...
And what if you had the chance to save someone from ending up like that? That seemed to be the way one of the five kings was going...
(FFG’s Midnight setting is essentially “what if Sauron won?” with the what-if being his successful corruption of some key heroes of the good. Having that be a risk in the here and now... hmm... possibly something to include in a theoretical fantasy setting...)
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