Hey, calm down Vyck, you'll break your straps carrying on like that. I think you'll find that the emblem as used to symbolise West Mercia is considerably older than you'd like it to be. As such, 'they' are fully entitled to use it any damn way 'they' want. Capisce?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'