Default Postures and Orientations
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Shapes & Symbols:
- Cornice: one point to chief
- Delf: flat side to base
- Labyrinth: No default orientation.
- Mitsutomoe: No default orientation.
- Nailpuller: one point to chief
- Spiral: No default orientation.
- Spur-Rowel: one point to chief
- Valknut: points to chief
The World & Heavens:
- Mountain: issuant from base
- Sunburst: rays to chief
- Thunderbolt: flame palewise, wings fesswise, lightning in saltire
- Wind: upright, facing dexter
Plants:
- Broom: pods to chief
- Cabbage: stem to base
- Cattail: upright
- Cherry: No default orientation.
- Columbine: pendent to dexter
- Flax: stem to base
- Hazel: stem to base
- Lemon: stem to chief
- Mandrake: affronty, feet to base
- Nesselblatt: one large point to base
- Octofoil: one point to chief
- Peony: blossom affronty
- Quince: stem to base
- Turnip: roots to base
Invertebrates:
- Bee: volant in arrière
- Butterfly: volant in arrière
- Cicada: tergiant
- Crab: tergiant
- Dragonfly: volant in arrière
- Moth: volant in arrière
- Prawn: tergiant
- Scorpion: tergiant
- Wasp: volant in arrière
Fishes:
- Barbel: naiant
- Chabot: tergiant
- Octopus: tentacles to base
- Polypus: tentacles to base
- Sea-Dog: erect
- Sea-Dragon: erect
- Sea-Fox: erect
- Sea-Serpent: No default posture.
- Sea-Tortoise: tergiant palewise
- Sea-Wolf: erect
Reptiles:
- Caduceus: upright
- Caldera Gringolada: upright
- Crocodile: No default posture.
- Dragon: segreant (rampant wings addorsed)
- Pithon: No default posture.
- Rod of Asclepius: upright
- Toad: tergiant
- Tortoise: tergiant
Birds:
- Crane: close, typically drawn with one leg raised, frequently shown holding a rock, which may be blazoned âin its vigilance
- Crow: close
- Dove: close
- Egg: palewise
- Heron: statant close
- Lure: cord to chief
- Owl: close guardant
- Panache: quills to base
- Poppinjay: close
- Simurgh: No default posture.
- Stork: close
Beasts:
- Alphyn: No default posture.
- Bison: No default posture.
- Buffalo: point to chief
- Camel: No default posture.
- Chatloup: No default posture.
- Domestic Cat: No default posture.
- Elephant: statant
- Enfield: No default posture.
- Fleece: feet down, head to dexter
- Fox: No default posture.
- Gorilla: No default posture.
- Griffin: rampant, blazoned âsegreant
- Hedgehog: statant
- Ibex: point to chief
- Keythong: rampant
- Lamb: passant
- Leopard: rampant
- Llama: No default posture.
- Mouse: No default posture.
- Musimon: No default posture.
- Otter: statant, perhaps; best to blazon explicitly
- Ounce: rampant
- Pawprint: toes to chief
- Pegasus: No default posture.
- Racoon: No default posture.
- Rhinoceros: statant
- Sow: No default posture.
- Wildcat: No default posture.
- Wolverine: No default posture.
- Yale: No default posture.
Body Parts:
- Skull: cabossed
Postures:
- Migrant: close
People:
- Cherub: affronty
- Dextrochère: dexter arm fesswise embowed
- Gorgon: affronty
- Manticore: No default posture.
- Melusine: affronty
- Merman: erect affronty
- Saracen: facing dexter
- Savage: facing dexter
- Seraph: affronty
- Tress: end to base
- Triton: erect affronty
- Viking: statant affronty
- Wound: gouty to base
Food:
- Amphora: upright
- Barrel: fesswise
- Beaker: upright
- Bottle: upright
- Chalice: palewise
- Cornucopia: palewise opening to chief
- Cup: upright
- Drinking Horn: curving to dexter, opening to chief
- Flask: opening to chief
- Fleshpot: opening to chief
- Knife: point to chief, cutting to dexter
- Meat: point to chief
- Mortar: No default orientation.
- Oven: dome to chief
- Pan: palewise, handle to base
- Peel: palewise, handle to base
- Pestle: No default orientation.
- Salt Barrel: opening to top
- Spit: point to chief
- Spoon: palewise, handle to base
- Trammel Hook: palewise
- Trivet: in annulo, all three legs visible
- Weinleiter: No default orientation.
Clothing:
- Bag: opening to chief
- Belt: buckle to chief
- Buckle: No default orientation.
- Eyeglasses: lenses fesswise, bridge to chief
- Garter: in annulo, loose end to base
- Glove: dexter hand, apaumy, fingers to chief
- Heckle: No default orientation.
- Hempbreak: legs to base
- Hood: upright, facing dexter
- Mantle: upright affronty
- Maunch: wrist to dexter, elbow bent to base
- Pouch: opening to chief
- Scissors: palewise, points to chief
- Scrip: opening to chief
- Shears: palewise, points to base
- Shoe: sole to base, toe to dexter
- Tassel: threads to base
- Thimble: palewise, opening to base
- Veil: statant affronty
Tools:
- Adze: handle to base, cutting to dexter
- Anvil: flat surface to chief
- Awl: point to chief
- Axe-Head: blade to dexter
- Bellows: spout to base
- Block Plane: fesswise, cutting to sinister
- Calipers: points to base
- Compass: points to base
- Drill: upright
- Ladder: upright
- Mallet: head to chief, striking to dexter
- Pick: fesswise, pointing to dexter
- Pliers: handles to base
- Punner: palewise
- Shave: fesswise
- Staple: points to base
Buildings:
- Andiron: upright
- Anille: fesswise
- Bathtub: upright
- Boardwalk: No default orientation.
- Castle: upright
- Church: upright
- Cresset: flame to chief
- House: upright
- Keystone: wide edge to chief
- Obelisk: point to chief
- Park Pales: palewise
- Table: legs to base
- Torii: upright
- Tower: palewise
- Well: opening to chief
- Window: No default orientation.
Arts & Sciences:
- Bowling Pin: point to chief
- Clarion: curlicue to dexter base
- Flute: fesswise, finer holes affronty, mouth aperture to sinister
- Lute: neck to chief
- Lyre: upright
- Paintbrush: palewise, brush to chief
- Penbox: fesswise
- Psaltery: unknown
- Whirligig: upright
Farming:
- Bag of Madder: fesswise
- Barnacles: hinge to chief
- Bucket: handle to chief
- Coulter: point to chief, cutting to dexter
- Crook: palewise, handle to dexter chief
- Fetterlock: open, bolt to base, keyhole to dexter
- Flail: handle to base
- Hames: palewise
- Hay House: upright
- Hayfork: handle to base
- Hoe: blade to chief, as of the March 2021 Cover Letter
- Horseshoe: opening to base
- Millstone: affronty
- Plow: fesswise, pulling to dexter
- Plowshare: point to chief
- Pruning Knife: hook to chief, cutting to dexter
- Sickle: handle to base, point to dexter
- Snaffle-Bit: fesswise
- Turning Cratch: upright
- Wagon: wheels to base, driving to dexter
- Wool-Pack: fesswise
- Yoke: fesswise
Ships & Fishing:
- Caravel: upright, sailing to dexter
- Drakkar: sailing to dexter
- Fishhook: point to dexter chief
- Harpoon: point to chief
- Lymphad: upright, sailing to dexter
- Oar: handle to base
- Rowboat: traveling to dexter
- Sail: billowing, hanging from a horizontal yard
- Salmon Spear: points to base
Military:
- Battering Ram: fesswise
- Billhook: point to chief
- Bird-Blunt: point to base
- Breastplate: upright
- Caltrop: point to chief
- Crampet: point to base
- Cronel: points to chief
- Glaive: point to chief, cutting to dexter
- Grenade: flame to chief
- Handgun Rest: palewise, fork to chief
- Mace: hilt to base
- Pheon: point to base
- Quiver: upright
- Scourge: handle to base
- Sword: point to chief
- Truncheon: palewise, point to chief
- War Hammer: head to chief, striking to dexter