Beast: Difference between revisions

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A beast is a non-human animal - a type of heraldic charge.

They principally come in 2 flavours:

natural beasts -- as you would expect
heraldic beasts -- monsters and unnatural things, also beasts like the heraldic leopard, which is a herald's name for a lion and doesn't have spots.

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-A non-human animal - a type of [[heraldry|heraldic]] [[charge]].
+A '''beast''' is a non-human [[animal]] - a type of [[heraldry|heraldic]] [[charge]].
-They pricipally come in 2 flavours:
+They principally come in 2 flavours:
-*natural beasts -- as you would expect
+*[[animal|natural beasts]] -- as you would expect
-*heraldic beasts -- monsters and unnatural things, also beasts like the heraldic leopard which is a herald's name for a lion, and doesn't have spots.
+*[[heraldic beast]]s -- monsters and unnatural things, also beasts like the heraldic [[leopard]], which is a [[herald]]'s name for a [[lion]] and doesn't have spots.