As I can grow used to all these
character-forces I am dealing with, slowly I can find their similarities and a
quintessential marble starts being formed to define the group that grows more
and more edged as time goes on. Luckily, they are getting in shape of a story
with a decent harmony with their quintessential shapes.
And so all matters regarding time for now on
I’ll try to use asiatic names for the reign I’m calling Zhàn Empire (which is a
Chinese word that I tried to make sure it can at least slightly resemble
occupation – I wanted something one word that could mean ‘the lasting one that
stands over the fallen enemies of the south’). This is my chance to show my
adoration to asian cultures, like Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Mongolian, or
even some Indian or, huh, those dozens of small countries around. The choice of
asian theme is mostly because there are the long-lasting civilization of our
world, and the asian religions seems to me the ones that deal well with notion
of time and death.
Sfayi’s reign, whenever I feel it’s due, I’ll
try to resort to middle-eastern names for all this reality that also feels too
far from me. Sfayi means “the one who gives pleasure”, and it comes from the
graphic novel called Habibi, and in this story lies a contrasting difference
between the richness and poverty. There are literal walls putting the rich and
poor apart. It’s interesting to see a woman in power in a muslim-inspired
reign, but the situation is actually perfect as it is. For now I think I’ll
call it Lazurin,which actually sounds French, but French is a cute language and
it fits the concept of this reign. The name isn’t really fitting, but that’s a
good test without risking much.
The reign and clans actually closer to me are
those of Ushag, Frosq and Raseri, which are more brute and crass (conveniently
below Sfayi’s lands). I try to use Germanic names for them, because they feel
raw and crude to me. But I’ll take ideas from Nordic folklore or other
Scandinavian and Celtic and even some Slavic names. There is a lot of
complexity in the arrangement of characters in here as there seems to be at
least three different clans without a defined sovereignty. But I think I’ll
give it one name for them: this is the Ersatz region, which stands in the way
of the Lazurin kingdom.
So, while Zhu Rong comes from an Asiatic reign,
Áine and Trygve came from the Germanic one (Áine is the name of an irish
goddess, while Trygve is a Scandinavian name), Hephaestus and Vesta come from
the reign that is actual the reign that fights against the others, and is the
headquarter of the Fire Ensemble.
If Hephaestus was called Vulcan, he and Vesta
would both be roman gods (not that Vulcan will really be less greek), but hey, Roman Empire
is greatly based on the Greek culture. They can be like master and disciple in
this Greco-roman inspired reign. Hell, this even explains the references to
renaissance I have for the definition of the blog.
So I started searching for latin-named cities.
Somehow those starting with ‘L’ felt good. And soon, another sparkle of clever
creativity came to me (as I’ve reached high Alpha-Gamma levels, and over 750t
in trance), a name that would indicate the presence of a lion (why lion? It was
a choice made of Q.Wisdom, I don’t know). It would be leo-something, but I
couldn’t find the later part. Could be Leorium, but I can’t decide this early.
It could also be something around Ilion or Ilium (Troy
As a working name, I’ll stay with Ilium , as I can also use some inspiration from the
Greco-trojan wars. Scourgers will have their victory either by defeating
Hephaestus, or bringing Trygve to their side (and he could be one true Trojan
horse – great, I can ever force their pronunciation close), but maybe it’s the
woman they’ve lost to the enemy, Áine, they want back.
In conclusion, following the north and south
rule, it is apparent to me that the city of Ilium
