Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel!

You asked our help with a name or arms.  We'll be happy to help
you, but we want to be sure that you want the help that we can
offer.

The Academy is a group of volunteers who are interested in the
names and heraldry of pre-modern cultures.  We help people,
generally members of the Society for Creative Anachronism and
other medieval re-enactment groups, to choose names and arms that
are authentic for the cultures they want to re-create.  The
Academy is not affiliated with the SCA College of Arms and is not
involved in its submission process.  Our work can often be used
to support a submission, but that's not our focus.  Our standards
are different from the College's, and our result may be
incompatible with the College's needs.  We focus primarily on
authenticity and may ignore the College's other concerns.

If your main interest is to register the name or arms that you've
chosen, then the Academy probably isn't the best group to help
you.  You should contact the submissions heralds in your kingdom.
You may want to write to your kingdom's heraldic mailing list.  
You can find the mailing list for your kingdom at 
http://www.sca.org/heraldry/kingdoms.html .

If you have already decided what name or arms you want to use and
you have no interest in changing it based on our research to make
it more authentic, then again we probably can't help you.  Our
service is intended primarily for people interested in choosing
and using names and arms that are as authentic as possible.

If you'd like our evaluation of the authenticity of your name and
arms and our help in choosing a name and arms that fits your
culture, then please write us again and we'll be happy to help.
We'll hold onto your original note until we hear from you again.