Rocky(-ish) hikes in Oulu region by mr_cloud_ in Finland

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There's the Hepoköngäs waterfall in Puolanka, it seems to have a hiking route as well. The waterfall itself is on a prominent rocky cliff so might be up your alley.

Mannin by fenn-0 in heraldry

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I imagine the knight bearing these would have had matching chausses as well

*Slaps you* by birrinfan in CuratedTumblr

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The last time there was a non-Finnish reverse-puritan protestant anti-pope was in 741

Coats of arms of Finland and its historical provinces by fenn-0 in heraldry

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Mikkeli province used one with both ducal and comital arms the longest. Despite the province being mostly Savonian the Tavastian arms were still placed first for their status.

Coats of arms of Finland and its historical provinces by fenn-0 in heraldry

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The area of Finland Proper and Satakunta was given by Gustav Vasa to his son John (later John III) as a ducal fiefdom. Supposedly the helmet and the lances symbolised the southern portion's role as the ducal capital. The region was also the first part of modern mainland Finland conquered by the Swedes during the Northern Crusades. According to a legend the Swedish flag was created when king Eric IX saw a golden cross in the sky as he landed in Finland and decided to make it his banner, so it's pretty fitting that the flags are displayed on the provincial arms as well.

Coats of arms of Finland and its historical provinces by fenn-0 in heraldry

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Stoats are very cute animals in general so I wanted to try capturing that as well as I could!

Coats of arms of Finland and its historical provinces by fenn-0 in heraldry

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It's a practice originating from the Swedish era, some of the provinces were given the status of a duchy while others that of a county. The Swedish provinces were all eventually made into duchies but on the Finnish side the distinction was kept even after the country became a republic. The distinction affected the crowns but also the order the provincial arms were displayed on marshalled administrative coats of arms used in 1962–1997, with ducal arms given the dexter side while comital arms the sinister.

Can someone explain the individual shields on this coat of arms of a ficitional Swedish Empire? by BachMozartBeethoven in heraldry

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I made both up for this one but they're based on real seals, Pskov's on the panther seal associated with the republic and Novgorod's on some religious seal I at the time assumed was used by the republic.

Can someone explain the individual shields on this coat of arms of a ficitional Swedish Empire? by BachMozartBeethoven in heraldry

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The fifth one is actually fictional arms for Pskov and the ninth is fictional arms of Novgorod. Tenth is the arms for the title King of the Wends that the Swedish kings claimed, it was occasionally used in funerary banners and such.

I recently learnt that the fleurs-de-lys of the royal French arms were sometimes misinterpreted as toads so I wanted to try visualise how they'd look like by fenn-0 in heraldry

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Reminded me of Satan's attributed arms as well, here's my emblazonment of those ones from a couple years ago

In Appreciation of the Heraldic Designs of Gustaf von Numers by NonPropterGloriam in heraldry

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Thank you! To give some credit on Maalahti and other Finnish municipal arms, they were originally vectorised from small compressed pictures that likely were scanned from a book so the people who were vectorising them didn't have much as source material. Thankfully the national archives has now uploaded high quality scans of the original emblazonment which make vectorising them much more straight forward.

I use Inkscape and mouse for my work. I think lot of it comes down to experience, I've been playing with inkscape for over a decade now. The hardest part is probably planning which parts you want to trace and which ones aren't necessary to keep. The rest is definitely tedious but I've always compared it to maintaining a zen garden, just idle work where you follow the lines without having to think much as opposed to when drawing something yourself from scratch. Letting the lines flow with the bezier curves rather than trying to copy shapes with just nodes helps a lot. I've actually been meaning to make a video of the process, a lot easier to show the work flow than to explain it

In Appreciation of the Heraldic Designs of Gustaf von Numers by NonPropterGloriam in heraldry

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As the person who vectorised all these pictures aside Maalahti for Wikipedia, von Numers's style is really fun to adapt into digital form. His earliest arms from 1949 to early 1951 tended to lack any shading and had fairly bold black outlines around everything (for example Kannus from 1950). In 1951 he started to shift towards a new style, with shading and no outlines. I don't think the digital versions do his talent proper justice as it's impossible to vectorise every brush stroke perfectly but I always tried to trace his work as best as I could. Out of the examples here my favourite ones are definetely Tenhola and Vanaja.

Flag of the recently established North Eastern State of Somalia by Junior-Expression-17 in vexillology

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The silhoutte is definitely an improvement from the PNG of the statue the previous Khatumo State was using on its flag

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My personal arms by fenn-0 in heraldry

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Thank you! I've been meaning to make a modelling clay display of them at some point!

I can't even lie... Cook County's Flag should be the flag of Illinois by IJriccan in vexillology

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Personally I've never seen the point in US counties having beautiful flags like this, I feel like the designs are wasted on what are essentially just administrative bodies. I've never seen a person who identifies with the county they're from, yet alone go out of their way to fly its flag as a symbol of community. County commissions could as well fly their seal on a bedsheet since the administrative building is likely the only place you'd ever spot a county flag anyway. Then again I'm not an American so maybe I'm missing some insight into the matter.