No, that isn't your coat of arms.

Are there ghouls in your past? Perhaps there are, if you spell it gules, the heraldic word for the color red¹. However, if you're an eager searcher for your family history, looking for "Smith Family Crest" or "Smith Coat of Arms" will lead you to a host of websites happy to sell you scrolls, crests, mugs, plaques, histories, and family books about or emblazoned with a coat of arms representing your name... but which most likely has nothing to do with your family.

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