"I think a person who can make a living by repairing genealogy should know a lot about this." Green pulled out a chair for the monk, moved an empty wooden box, turned it upside down and sat down at the table.
"Tell me more about it."
"If you want to listen, of course there is no problem, but you have to wait a moment." Brother Marco carefully pressed his buttocks against the seat, as if iron spikes installed by the Inquisition suddenly appeared on it.
He rummaged through the pile of books on the table for a while, and picked out two tomes with less dust and old formats. He coughed a few times, then covered his mouth and nose and picked out some personal items that didn't look very valuable.
Collect books and stack them together.
After reviewing his preparations, he calmed down for a moment and opened the top book.
Dazzling patterns flashed before our eyes, combining and stacking in a way that was difficult for a layman to distinguish, dividing the space within the shield-shaped frame.
"You know, a family that lasts long enough may have more members than leaves, and many leaves may not even know where they came from from growing to dying."
"But for those who know how to interpret it and are willing to spend time, every leaf can be traced back to a clear trunk, and it becomes easier the further forward."
Green nodded repeatedly after hearing this, regaining a little bit of the feeling he had when listening to lectures in class. Even the sleepiness caused by the afternoon sun was so similar, "This is exactly why I came here."
"The general content of my work is to sort out the fallen branches and leaves and put them back into their original positions. In this, the coat of arms is the guiding guide and the best evidence."
"Theoretically, each qualified coat of arms can be used to locate the position of a branch in the entire family tree, reflecting the bloodline, legal system, and territory of the owner of the coat of arms, and therefore can infer what happened that year."
"It can even be said that heraldry is history itself." With a smooth opening statement, the monk regained his feeling and confidence, "For example, this four-point shield has a four-pointed star on a blue background on the upper left and lower right, and a four-pointed star on a blue background on the upper right and lower left.
It’s a swordfish.”
"It shows that the owner of the coat of arms comes from the union of two families with equal status. The father's family symbol is a four-pointed star, and the mother's family's coat of arms is a swordfish. The horizontal zigzag pattern added above is because of his status as a non-heir.
Distinguish it from family orthodoxy.”
"This is just a relatively simple basic rule. Not all heraldry is handled this way, and not everyone can ask a professional heraldry officer to provide advice, but generally speaking, it can still be done to determine the successive generations."
"In other words, as long as you give the heraldry information, you can find out who the owner is?" Green thought about the pattern he recognized from the armor. It might be more useful than imagined.
"As I said before, in theory yes." In other words, there are practical difficulties.
"Generally, among families that follow the rules, research is not difficult, but what you are asking about now is not an ordinary family. The royal family's position in heraldry has always been somewhat embarrassing."
"The rulers of the kingdom should abide by the rules of inheritance more strictly. This is the legal basis of their rule." As the largest noble family, it is very unbelievable that there are flaws in the genealogy.
"The problem lies in the origin of the royal family and the Pendra family. They are not a simple and noble family that exists in history." The monk took the holy book placed on the corner of the table and placed it in the middle. "The first generation of North
Wang is still a legendary figure."
"As a legend who is as famous as all the saints and spreads the light of the Heavenly Father throughout the kingdom, there are many records about his deeds, from being selected by the sword to unifying the kingdom. I believe you are familiar enough."
"But as a family member, a father's son, a child's father, a wife's husband, it's...not so specific." Observing the reaction of the priest of the Inquisition, Brother Marco was happy to see that the other party did not express his dissatisfaction, but listened to
He was very serious, which encouraged him.
Talking to someone from the Inquisition about something that already borders on heresy is not an experience that everyone can have.
For a person who is deeply involved in the profession and has few social contacts, few people will listen so attentively to him telling these ancient and realistic contents that are too dry and boring compared to the legendary stories.
"So what actually happens?"
"Actually, the royal family tree is not so clear. Our first king, Arthur Pendra, was the youngest child in the family. St. Jaeger first met his seven brothers before he was selected under the guidance of the Lord.
Got him."
"Suppose, I mean suppose there is such a noble family that has raised at least eight children. Someone will almost certainly inherit it, right?"
"That's right." Green nodded.
"Excluding one exception, we may now have at most seven people to pass on the heraldic pattern so that it can be preserved."
"Then what is this coat of arms?"
"Yeah, what is this coat of arms? No one knows, because the Holy Scriptures are not responsible for recording the names of the chosen people's relatives and what they did, unless they are related to the story."
This holy book has a strong personal style, with special markings on the characters appearing, even though it may only be used as a backdrop.
In addition, some sections about environment and education have also been marked out, confirming that this is a family that is far from prominent, but still has a legacy.
He closed the holy book that was no longer valuable and opened the first few pages of another tome. Unlike the tree-like family tree structure in other books, the simplest and purest Sword in the Stone badge was decorated with some small patterns with different adjustments.
Chapters are divided into chapters.
"That's not all. For a period of time after His Majesty Arthur Pendra, the inheritance of the royal family was not so clear. We can find multiple coats of arms related to the Sword in the Stone that have made two or more changes, but there is no corresponding one.
Patterns of ancestors from the upper reaches.”
"The sun's rays will obscure the stars and the moon, and the status of the narrative content in the holy scriptures seems to have completely obscured the divisions, unions, marriages and other records of the royal family during this period in the story."
"Everyone who tries to study the royal family's genealogy will encounter obvious gaps when tracing back to this point. Just like one step is still in the scope of heraldry and history, and the next step is stepping into the story of revelation."
"It's not even possible to verify the meaning of those added patterns, whether they were branch lineage differentiation, in-laws joining, or partial inheritance from the family's original heraldry. And some of them were not inherited and were completely lost."
Continuing to turn the pages, the lower coats of arms gradually became connected with tree-shaped lines, and people were connected to each other, but that was not the time period Green wanted.
"Don't you have any clue?"
"Probably it's just that our wisdom has not read the revelation given by the holy scriptures." Marco replied with the classic explanation of everything.
To Green, this perfunctory phrase had another meaning.
No trace is the biggest trace. Some force deliberately erased a piece of content from the record that should not have been missing.
But it did not disappear completely, but remained in a distorted way, guarded in plain sight.