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'''The Populace Badge of Ealdormere''', also known as the '''Wolfium''', is a [[badge]] which can be displayed by any subject of the [[Kingdom of Ealdormere]] regardless of birth, station or [[rank]].

The badge is: 
''([[Fieldless]]) On a [[trillium]] [[argent]] [[barbed]] [[vert]] a [[wolf]]'s head [[cabossed]] [[gules]].''

The "Wolfium", as it is affectionately known, is a remembrance of the "spirit of the wolf" which carried the people of Ealdormere through the dark days of [[Ban on Regions|King Alen's Proscription]].  As such, it is particularly associated with the struggle to achieve [[principality]] status, and during the Proscription was used as a way of quietly declaring one's with [[regionalism|regional]] sympathies.

Another, less formal populace badge is the simple use of three trilliums on a red field (one for each of the three original [[barony|baronies]] of Ealdormere); popularly in use as it is much easier to embroider than the wolfium.

There is a rumour, perhaps apocryphal, that certain pieces of [[Midrealm]] royal [[regalia]] made in [[Barony of Septentria|Septentria]], [[Barony of Rising Waters|Rising Waters]] and [[Barony of Skraeling Althing|Skraeling Althing]] in those times are liberally (if discreetly) marked with wolves and trilliums.

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