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Greetings,
Here is the information we found on the arms "Quarterly Or and gules, a sun sable."
These arms don't violate the rule of tincture. A charge placed on a background which is half color and half metal can be any tincture except the ones that the field uses (so your sun could be any color except Or and gules."
Unfortunately, there is already registered coats of arms that make it impossible to register a coat of arms which have a single sun on a plain background. The Kingdom of Ansteorra has registered "a mullet of five greater and five lesser points, distilling goutes" (that is, a star with five large points and five smaller points between them, with drops coming off of it). In period armory, a sun was frequently drawn as a star with many points, so a ten-pointed star _is_ a sun. Because the Ansteorran badge is tinctureless, they have the right to use it in any color. Thus, arms with a single sun in any color will conflict with their badge. We can suggest a number of arms which use suns and the color scheme you want which don't conflict with anything:
"Checky Or and gules, three suns sable." (A checkered background with two black suns at the top and one at the bottom)
Quarterly gules and Or, four suns counterchanged (quartered with four suns. Gold suns on red in the upper left and lower right, red suns on gold in the upper right and lower left.)
Per fess Or and gules, in chief two suns sable. (Top half gold, bottom half red, two black suns in upper half.)
Gules, on a chief Or three suns sable (Red, gold bar across top with three black suns on it)
Quarterly Or and gules, on a chief sable three suns Or (Quartered with gold in upper left. Black bar across top with three gold suns)
Or, semy of (crosses, billets, roundels) gules, a sun sable. (Gold field with red crosses, circles, or rectangles scattered on it. Black sun in the middle.)
Arval D'Espas Nord, Jaelle of Armida, Rouland Carre, Margaret Makafee, Pedro de Alcazar, Hartmann Rogge, Elsbeth Anne Roth, Talan Gwynek, and Zenobia Naphtali all contributed to this letter.
We hope this has been helpful. If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel