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Greetings,
Here's the information we can give you on your arms.
The chevron you've drawn is something like a "chevron rompu." A chevron rompu looks like this:
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The arms you want (with the chevron shown above) would be described, "Sable, a chevron rompu checky argent and purpure between three castles Or." This design is similar enough to medieval style that you can probably register it in the SCA (we aren't part of the SCA college of arms, so we can't make definitive statments about registration). However, there are two elements of these arms that make them inappropriate for Scottish arms from your period. If you want arms that fit your persona, you should change them.
First, a "chevron rompu" is found only in a few examples from very late in period, and there is no reason to think that it was used between 1200 and 1400. Your persona would have used a normal chevron instead. (1,2)
Second, purple is vanishingly rare in Scotland. (3) Your persona would have used a different color, most likely red, blue, or black. (Green was also used, but was more rare than the first three).
We found no conflicts with your design or with any of the modified designs we suggested.
We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you.
Zenobia Naphtali, Rouland Carre, Arval Benicoeur, Walraven van Nijmege, Elsbeth Anne Roth, Hartmann Rogge, and Talan Gwynek contributed to this letter.
In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel
(1) Parker, "A Dictionary of Heraldry"
(2) "Dictionary of British Arms"
(3) Unpublished research by Schweitzer and Hunter of Montlaw, who have
been working with a sample of 565 Scottish arms. None contain purple.