Heraldic

We only exist because you believe in us. The early days are the best... Someone thinks that they see something in the shadows and they tell other people and, whoosh! we're there! But everyone imagines us in a different way, so we exist in different ways. It's exciting! But dangerous - people forget and we diminish or disappear. But then someone draws us or daubs paint on a cave wall and we become more fixed as people start to carry around the same view of us.

And if someone sticks you on their coat of arms, you are fixed - everyone has the same picture of you. And, at the same time, they stop thinking about you. So you carry on existing but in a thin, constant way...