re: #370 buzzsawmonkey
‘Scuse me, but what you describe below is an achievement. The crest is what appears on the helmet.

Cute.

A full-blown heraldic crest has a shield, with a device or devices and/or a pattern; two supporting figures (one on each side); a helmet, a lion’s or Saracen’s head, or some other device such as an arm holding a sword, above the shield; a scroll with a motto; and, if I recall, some sort of ground-line which may perhaps have a crouching animal figure.

There’s a highly formalized language, largely in French with a sprinkling of Latin, to describe each of these elements; I’ve just done the shield device, and haven’t the time to dig up a heraldic dictionary (I’m sure there’s one online somewhere) to try and describe the rest. It would be fun, though.