The "What's a good name for this?" thread

@Skyhaven Path - Misotheism Field

That would make a good argument for "Paradox" as the name.

Another contenders would be "Normalize", which is appropriately mundane give its effect

Not if it's an actual force of the universe that is just as natural as the laws of nature that we know IRL.

Then why is the "supernatural" not?

By definition.

Supernatural: That which is said to exist above and beyond nature.

If it's supposed to be a fundamental force, you could call it the Null Force. It would fit better with the Strong and Weak Forces.

Because often the origin/source of the supernatural is not from the physical universe that we live in and experience, but from a parallel universe where raw magical energy forms the very stuff of reality. Example: Everything supernatural in Warhammer Forty Thousand comes from The Warp, a realm composed purely of raw psychic energy that can be shaped by the will of one's mind. Contrast that to the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens that are the C'Tan, Cosmic Entities to whom the Warp and related psychic phenomena are anathema, and whose powers are strictly from possessing the power of direct manipulation over fundamental natural forces of the physical universe.

What I meant was, unless every kind of magic that exists has a source outside the universe - no elementals, no ghosts, no inborn abilities or hereditary superpowers, no wild magic, no alchemy or herbalism, no native gods or genius loci or loa - it's pretty unclear why the anti-magic cosmic force affects all magic as 'supernatural'.

Presumably, when this force is in effect, it disrupts whatever mechanism allows magic to exist/be controlled.

Another possibility might be a sort of particle/anti-particle pairing. Magic works fine until it comes into contact with antimagic, at which point they cancel out or explode.

What would be a good equivalent in English or some other European language to the Japanese term 超神 (pronounced choushin), which literally translates to "super-deity"?

I'd say God(dess) (with a capital G) or something like "Arch-god(dess)" or "Elder God(dess)".

High God?

<jots down "Archgod(dess)", "Elder God(dess)", and "High God"> Just for clarity's sake, I'm talking about this trio of hyperdimensional cosmic entities... who are surpassed by an an even more supreme cosmic entity that is to them what they themselves are to the universe that they created (and any physical gods that may or may not exist within it, incidentally).

How do you write "Sunny Olgaevna Emmerich Kusanagi" in Russian? Is "Са́нни Ольгаевна Эммерих Кусанаги" the correct form?

edited 27th May '15 3:28:23 PM by MarqFJA

That...honestly that sounds like a Mary Sue name to me. Just saying. I mean why Kusanagi at the end? The English one, not the one translated in Russian.

The girl's name is "Sunny", her mother is a Russian named is "Olga" (the biological father is a complete unknown, possibly even to the mother), her first adoptive father is one Hal Emmerich, and "Kusanagi" is because she's adopted by Motoko Kusanagi after Hal's death (it's a crossover story with plenty of divergences). I'm trying to give a commemorative tribute to each of her deceased parents via her name.

edited 27th May '15 3:37:27 PM by MarqFJA

Ah my mistake.

No problem. For the record, her canonical name at birth is "Sunny Gurlukovich" ^note Her mother's full name is Ogla Sergeyevna Gurlukovich (her father: Sergei Gurlukovich), so while Gurlukovich is technically in the form a patronymic, it appears to have been used as a surname by the family, implying that they took it from an ancestor who lived at a time preceding the usage of surnames for Russian commoners (i.e. when they were only known by their given name and the name of their father)., which was legally changed through adoption to "Sunny Emmerich". "Oglaevna" is an original addition of mine, for reasons that I've already explained.

How do you say "New Krieg" in German? I'm trying to come up with a good name to give for a new homeworld for the Death Korps of Krieg after losing their original one to a cataclysmic disaster.

Neuekrieg, I'd think. Maybe some more complications depending on if the planet is grammatically masculine, feminine, or neuter.

"Neukrieg" would be the correct way of naming. New Mexico is called Neumexiko for example.

edited 29th May '15 1:32:53 AM by Kiefen

Hey, thanks. It's been a while since I took my German lessons—what's the general grammatical rule there?

For names it is just adding "Neu-" as a prefix. Basically a short form of"der neu gegründete Planet Krieg".

I'm trying to come up with different names for types of details that get put into a character's profile. I currently envision the categories as follows:

• The most basic facts such as full name (and any alternative names, nicknames, etc.), date and place birth of birth, residence, and group affiliations.
• Species, biological sex, ethnic group, blood type, measurements (height, weight, and optionally things like dress size when appropiate, e.g. for fashion models), and notable medical conditions that affect the character.
• Details that are typically relevant for "official purposes", such as citizenship/nationality, criminal record, education, occupation, profession, and (for notably rich people) net worth.
• Personal details that are not really relevant for "official purposes", such as likes and dislikes, hobbies, religious stance, marital status, relatives, and notable awards.

Any suggestions?

Well, the categories seem to be, respectively: social data, biological data, legal/governmental data, and "miscellaneous data" (as it seems to be a catch-all for anything not in the previous categories). Perhaps something along those lines?

I'll confess that some parts of categories one and three seem somewhat similar to me (I might place "occupation" under the category one, while "group affiliations" might fit into group three, for example), which is making it difficult for me to find separate names for those two.

I was about to suggest something, but I think has it conciser than I could.