Mescaffier

I think the wappenwiki vectors look really ugly and samey. Their cleanliness and digital-ness give me the impression that someone is writing a Wikipedia article about their characters 1000 years after the fact, which is an authorial style that really annoys me. I think as a result of them people's first instinct is to take a bunch of random sigils/charges and scale and arrange them to get something that looks cool, rather than thinking about their character and finding something to represent important information about them. Or even thinking about the function of a coat of arms to begin with, which is to have a simple or recognizable emblem to rally around in a battle. 

Even if your COA is an embarrassingly childish MS paint drawing it still gives me the impression of some upstart knight painting something on a shield or sewing together a garment. I understand that being an upstart is not always conducive to the sort of RP you want, but that is how you are going to be seen regardless because you are creating something new. The absolute worst thing you could do when starting a new army/noble house/whatever is try to retcon yourself into server history. It makes it very difficult to talk about you - am I supposed to have always been aware of House de Spingus which has just popped into existence via forum post? What am I supposed to know about your family- did your founder rescue the king in an important battle or are you toll collectors or mercenaries? Iis your pater familias maybe the master of coin? Wait- you're my eighth cousin and you descend from a cadet of Spingulus Pertinax the Uncrowned who was in line for the throne of the Empire of Man sired on my great great great (x8) grandma? What am I supposed to do with that information? 

Also the wiki articles are written like this- dry descriptions of characters and Important Events with no descriptions of how the characters felt or why they did what they did or any of the detail or texture of actua lRP. It reads like they are written in emulation of real life wikipedia articles with real life historiography. Yuck. 

That people don't know the proper addressments/honorifics for certain levels of nobility

@Samleromg finally someone said it
that very thing bothers me so so much LMAO