Sigil of Vine
At a glance
- Entry
- 45 of 72
- Rank
- King and Earl
- Legions
- 36 in the text
- Also written
- Viné, Vinea
Description in the text
Vine is credited with disclosing hidden matters and identifying practitioners of witchcraft. The passage also says he can build towers, break stone walls, and raise rough water and storms.
Read entry 45 on page 36 of the 1916 edition
Appearance
A lion riding a black horse and holding a viper.
Topics attributed to this entry
- Hidden matters
- Fortifications
- Storms
Reading this entry
Viné, also Vinea, is both king and earl. He appears as a lion on a black horse, holding a viper. His attributed offices include discovering hidden matters, witches or wizards, and events across time. He also builds towers, breaks down great stone walls, and stirs water into storms. The construction and destruction of fortifications appear together, a more particular pattern than a generic description of “power over buildings.”
The passage places no explicit meaning on the viper, horse color, or double title. The latter nevertheless matters for navigating rank lists: Viné belongs under two headings in the source. He rules 36 legions and has a seal. Witch-finding is a claim made by the historical text; early modern accusations of witchcraft were neither reliable nor just.
Read entry 45 on page 36 of the 1916 edition or compare the 1904 transcription.
A closer reading of entry 45
What the numbered text says
Vine combines the titles king and earl, and his lion-on-horse portrait holds a viper as an extra visual detail. The first office lists concealed matters and people identified as witches or wizards, followed by knowledge spanning time. Building towers, breaking stone walls, and roughening waters with storms make the second half more physical. The text does not explain how these works relate to the first half, so a tidy single-domain summary would lose its range.
About the printed seal
Frontispiece 5 labels Vine’s seal 45. The serpent in the written portrait is a held viper; the source never calls the printed sign a drawing of that animal. Both spellings in the heading belong to the same numbered emblem.
Compare another entry
Compare entry 40: Raum. Raum also combines knowledge across time with destructive urban effects, but steals royal treasure and ruins cities and dignities. Vine’s hidden-person claims, wall-breaking, and stormy water follow a different list. Similar breadth is not evidence of a shared identity.