The Blackgard colors refer to their core principles simplicity, diligence, loyalty, self-preservation, spiritual and moral purity, hidden dark desires, authority, mystery, and duality. Keeping in touch with simplistic Bordermen heraldry, the Blackgards' coat-of-arms symbolizes the black swords of the family guarding their simple and pure (white) lifestyle. Two crossed silver swords on a black and white field. Creating a simple heraldry of max two or three colors requires much less effort than designing a sigil faithful to Andal culture, which is usually ornate and consisting real-life heraldic influences from the European Middle Ages. User:LordOfTheNeverThere explains that this is both a practical and thematic choice. Bordermen sigils, just like the sigils of the Northmen, are simple and less complex than the heraldry of the rest of the Seven Kingdoms, usually consisting of a single symbol representing their House's ideals or describing a defining moment of their family's past. The Bordermen are descended from the First Men, and although they have adopted many influences from Andal culture over the years, their heraldry remains true to First Men heraldic customs.
The Westerlands The Riverlands The Vale The Borderlands Unknown - supposedly the sigil represents Cath Hall.Ī black cauldron ablaze on a marsh-gold field. This ancestry is reflected back in their night-themed heraldry. The Nytes are supposedly descended from the Nightlords, a mythic race of men. The sigil is meant to represent a wight - a reanimated corpse "dancing" supposedly for his masters - the White Walkers. Meaning of the sigil is unknown although it is believed the Dragens used snake venom to coat their weapons. Originally a man-eating serpent, the heraldry of House Dragen was changed after they were forced to abandon their cannibalistic ways.
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