rms: Argent, in a tressure sable a saltire azure, overall in chief a stag regardant sinister or. (A shield having a white background, with a thin black line near the shield's edge and a blue X across it; atop of these at the top of the shield is a yellow stag looking back over its shoulder, walking toward the left of a man holding the shield.)

A Voice in the Wilderness is set in and around the Barony of Allardsby, a small fief in the far northwest of the Kingdom of Camberland. The wilderness is nearby; the mountains are home to barbarian clans of doubtful pacificity; news from the central regions comes slowly or not at all. For most people, in short, life is hard enough and self-contained enough that Allardsby is their entire universe.