I was writing something the other day in which I represented a few of my characters as humans. For Silven and Duvessa, they had uniforms as part of the Amarth pack. So then I got the idea to make military-style rank badges for all the ranks/jobs in the SotW packs. :P It was fun. Here is the result:





A "field" color is the color that would replace the dark grey on the patch, as exemplified on the Skah/Amarth only ranks. (The white on Alphas and Betas is always white. They don't show the pack color, they're important enough to not need it.) I even put the Kargroth in there to be thorough.

I might use this in siggies or avatars sometime.

Some of them share symbols (like messengers and diplomats do) to show that the jobs are somehow inter-related. Gold and black are the "normal" ring colors and silver is only added when there are more than two tiers of a sort of job type.

This isn't comprehensive, I couldn't think of what to put for some jobs. (This was quite a brain exercise, not to use human symbols!) Any questions about 'em you can ask me.

Symbols:

Upper ranks: A wolf howling, these are the important wolves in the pack and most likely to call meetings I suppose...

Patroller/Defender/Blood Guard/Berserker: A wolf facing forward for no real reason. (Jobs grouped because they, on different levels, involve defense of / fighting for the pack.)

Raiders: A yellow eye. Raiders are spies, they sneak in and get a peek at what's going on.

Hunters: A fang. Hunters do use their teeth, after all. ;)

Messenger/Diplomat: A pawprint for travelling, as messengers and diplomats might do to talk to another pack. (jobs grouped due to speaking with other packs)

Nurse/Serve/Healer: A flower, for healers must know their herbs.

Pup/Maiden: A paw, because puphood is the first step in life. (Maiden grouped with pup because maidens look after them.)

Subordinate: No symbol, as this wolf doesn't have any particular significance.

Omega: Black field with the pack color as the ring. This wolf has somehow brought shame upon the pack or themself, so the pack color is pushed to the fringe.

Hey that's really cool. I don't really know how to manipulate graphics on this site, but this could be something interesting to incorporate into the system...kinda a quick glance way to see what a rank a wolf is! ^.^

It's cool, I like it

That'd be neat to just add to everyone's signature.... An easy way to ID rank, personally I'm more visual.

Hrmm, I may change the Alphan and Betan marks, I had an idea today. I could leave the field white and make the silhouette the pack's field color... *ponders*

Zita has too much time on her hands. @_@

You could try it and see how it looks then maybe ask people which they prefer ??