Shield

Shield

• a large leather shield of oiled basilisk leather stretched on fir with a symbol like old woman holding an urn kissing a maiden with the head of an octopus in scarlet on a white field
• a footman’s shield of tight-fitting steel and oak with a brown banner reading “Destruction Is the Reward of Might” on a gray field
• a footman’s shield of long-disused steel and redwood with a mass of writhing tentacles (insignia of “The the Patient One”) in ochre on a white field
• a large leather shield made of brown suede stretched on fir with 5 diagonal white stripes on a sienna field
• a large leather shield of pebbled gray calfskin stretched on cedar with 5 diagonal hot pink stripes on a blue field