Read the blazon, then choose the shield whose beast matches. Rise from page to king of arms — and beyond, to Garter and the Earl Marshal — through guardant and reguardant heads, ordinaries and roundels, counterchanged fields, ornate lines of partition, forked and knotted tails, heads erased and couped, paired beasts, griffins, wyverns and dragons, coronets, furs of ermine and vair, and fields sown with bezants. Three misreadings end your career; fifty true readings earn you the accolade.