Every crest is a house, a foundation and a stand

All the crests

Your title puts the last two together: where you stand, then your foundation. A Steadfast Archivist, a Searching Stargazer, a Veiled Ember. Your house gives the crest its shape.

Foundations

Why you believe: the kind of reason that carries the most weight for you. The symbol at the heart of your crest.

• The ChroniclerHistorianYour strongest reasons are in history: records, eyewitnesses and manuscripts. You want to know what really happened.
• The SagePhilosopherYour strongest reasons are arguments: why anything exists at all, and what makes something true.
• The ObserverScientistYou trust what can be measured and tested, and you want your beliefs to fit the world as it is.
• The FlamebearerWitnessYour strongest reason is something you lived: an answered prayer, a presence, a heart that changed.
• The SeerSign-seekerMiracles, healings and the unexplained move you most. You notice when the ordinary breaks open.
• The ScribeStudent of the WordA sacred text is your authority, and you want to know what it really says.
• The KeeperHeirYou stand in what you were given: a family, a people, a tradition.
• The VinedresserGardenerYou judge a belief by its fruit: kinder people, mended lives, real change.
• The MysticMysticBeauty, stillness and wonder speak to you more loudly than arguments do.
• The ArbiterConscienceYou can’t shake the sense that right and wrong are real, and that shapes everything else.
• The WeaverWeaverNo single reason carries you. Many strands, woven together, point one way.
• The UnwrittenUnconvincedNothing has convinced you either way yet. That is an honest place to start.

Blended foundations

Two kinds of reason together. They share the heart of your crest.

• The AssayerInvestigatorYou test every claim like metal in a fire: evidence first, then follow it where it leads.
• The StargazerNatural PhilosopherYou ask what the universe itself says, from its beginning to its finely set laws.
• The ArchivistTextual ScholarYou want to know what the text said and whether it can be trusted.
• The AssessorAuditorExtraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Your bar is high and fair.
• The LoremasterTheologianIt has to hold together as a whole, and you will follow the thread to the end.
• The VisionaryEncounteredYour strongest reasons are things that happened to you, and they are hard to argue away.
• The PsalmistWorshipperYou meet God, or something like Him, when you sing and pray.
• The HermitContemplativeThe sacred speaks in the silence, through slow reading and quiet prayer.
• The OracleSign-readerThe world keeps sending you signs, and you pay attention.
• The PoetRomantic RationalistBeauty and longing point beyond this world, and you have thought hard about why.
• The StewardKeeperThis is what your people have always believed, and it is written down.
• The CantorLiturgistAncient worship carries you, as it carried those before you.
• The HearthkeeperLiving ProofYou saw faith lived well by someone you loved, and you knew it was real.
• The BardStorykeeperYour family has seen wonders, and you keep the stories.
• The ArtisanPragmatistIt works, and it changed you. Those are your strongest reasons.
• The LawgiverMoral RealistRight and wrong are real, so something has to ground them.
• The ChampionJustice-SeekerShow you a faith that lifts up the poor, and you will listen.
• The EmberWounded QuestionerYou have asked where God was when it hurt, and you still want an honest answer.
• The PathfinderConvert by ConvictionYou argued your way to the door, then something met you there.

Where you stand

The first word of your title, and the symbol under the crown, on the heart’s upper edge.

• SearchingSeekerYou are actively looking, and open to where it leads.
• WrestlingWrestlerYou hold on, and you fight honestly with the hard questions.
• WanderingWandererYou drifted away a little at a time, without ever deciding to.
• ReturningReturnerYou are coming home after time away.
• KindledNewly CommittedSomething new has caught fire in you.
• SteadfastSteadyQuiet and sure, like an anchor.
• HeraldingAmbassadorYou are sure, and you carry the light to others.
• BridgingBridge-builderSure of your ground, and glad to cross to someone else’s.
• WardingDefenderYou stand guard over what you hold, and you know the arguments.
• VeiledGuardedYou keep the gate closed for now, often for good reasons.
• RestfulAt EaseYou are at peace, and not troubled by the big questions.

Houses

Your tradition gives the crest its shape and colors. Its sign sits on the heart’s lower edge.

• House of the KeysCatholic
• House of the Golden DomeEastern Orthodox
• House of the Ancient CrossOriental Orthodox
• House of the RiverBaptist
• House of the Open DoorEvangelical
• House of FlamePentecostal
• House of the Burning BushPresbyterian and Reformed
• House of the Compass RoseAnglican
• House of the RoseLutheran
• House of the Warmed HeartMethodist
• House of the Broken ChainBlack Church
• House of the PlowAnabaptist
• House of the Seventh DayAdventist
• House of the Quiet FlameHistoric Free Churches
• House of the Wayside CrossChristian
• House of the LampstandJewish
• House of the Eight-Pointed StarMuslim
• House of the LotusHindu
• House of the WheelBuddhist
• House of the KhandaSikh
• House of the BeehiveLatter-day Saint
• House of the WatchtowerJehovah’s Witness
• House of the BranchMessianic Jewish
• House of Many FiresWorld Traditions
• House of Two RingsBlended
• House of the SpiralSpiritual
• House of the Triple MoonPagan
• House of the Distant SunGod Without Religion
• House of the MistAgnostic
• House of the OrreryAtheist