Editing Bastardy (section)

===Coat of Arms===
[[File:Marc Simonetti Bittersteel.jpg|thumb|350px|[[Aegor Rivers]], a [[Great Bastard]] fathered by [[Aegon IV Targaryen]], by Marc Simonetti ©]]
Bastards do not have the right to use the arms of the highborn families from which they descend.{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Recognized bastards who take arms (noble born, knighted, etc.) often, but not always, take the [[Heraldry|coat of arms]] of their fathers with the colors reversed.{{Ref|TSS}} A bend sinister is sometimes added, as exemplified by Ser [[Walder Rivers]]'s sigil.{{Ref|AFFC|38}} A bastard that wants to emphasize his affiliation and minimize his own bastardy may decide to use the same sigil as his father, as did [[Glendon Flowers]],{{Ref|TMK}} perhaps illegally.{{Ref|THK}}{{Ref|AGOT|7}} Other bastards might choose to combine multiple sigils, as [[Aegor Rivers]] did.<ref name=greatbastards>[[So Spake Martin]]: [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/The_Great_Bastards/ (December 26, 2005)]</ref>

Several examples:
{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Targaryen.svg|75px|''House Targaryen'']]
| [[File:House Blackfyre.svg|75px|''House Blackfyre'']]
|Arms of [[House Blackfyre]] (right), founded by [[Daemon I Blackfyre]], a bastard descending from [[House Targaryen]], has the colors of the Targaryen sigil (left) reversed.{{ref|TSS}}
|}

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Frey.svg|75px|''House Frey'']]
| [[File:House Frey (Walder Rivers).svg|75px|'' personal arms of Walder Rivers'']]
|The personal arms of [[Walder Rivers]] (right), bastard son of Lord [[Walder Frey]], has the colors of the sigil of [[House Frey]] (left) reversed and a red bend sinister added.{{ref|AFFC|38}}
|}

{| cellspacing="5" border="0" style="text-align:left;"
| [[File:House Blackfyre.svg|75px|''House Blackfyre'']]
| [[File:House Bracken.svg|75px|''House Bracken'']]
| [[File:Bittersteel.svg|75px|''personal arms of Aegor Rivers'']]
|The coat of arms of [[Aegor Rivers]] (right), a bastard son of King [[Aegon IV Targaryen]]. He has combined the sigils of his mother's house, [[House Bracken]] (middle), and [[House Blackfyre]] (left).
|}