Greater State Arms

[Üc R. Tärfă]

I'm not in love with those ears either -- they remind me of a sea monster's ears.

Remember that the European squirrel has longer and hairyer ears than the American one, so it is perfectly understandable that in heraldry we find squirrels with that ears.

[Ián S.G. Txaglh]

ah, no squishy-squashy squirrels, we need flesh-eating deadly squirrels to guard the sacred symbols of talossa. the point of heraldic animals is to look scary and ready to fight; there are no domesticated pets but armed and dangerous guardians.

when nazis took over the rest of czecho-slovakia in march 1939, establishing protektorat böhmen und mähren, they also devised a new CoA with both heraldic animals, the two-tailed lion of bohemia and the checkered eagle of moravia, looking like a wet cat and flabby hen, intentionally making it different from the traditional, combative, way they were depicted (e.g., the lion looks like being neutered, as the testicle is covered with some cross-hatching). they also ordered that no other form of the CoA is acceptable.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I tried to make the original squirrel slightly less scary

Do you have an SVG file you can share?  I think these ultimately look pretty good, and it would be great to incorporate them into some state stuff.

[Üc R. Tärfă]

Yes I do. I'd like to have a sort of consensus on the College on those before saying "ok I can upload it on the wiki". Also if someone else wants to try to improve the squirrels, they can. I don't have them in the PC I'm using now (and I didn't put the last SVG on my cloud), I'll attach those later in the week.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Sounds good! Thank you for your hard work!