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TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#5576: Sep 14th 2019 at 8:26:07 AM

[up]x4

"Humons"?

"Mansters"?

"Omens"? ("Otherworld-men")

Edited by TitanJump on Sep 14th 2019 at 5:26:27 PM

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#5577: Sep 15th 2019 at 10:19:56 PM

I'm devising a fictional goddess (let's call her "Ghe" for convenience) that essentially reconstructs the concept of Nurgle from Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000. Nurgle is officially a god of death and decay, but is also often described as being a god of life and growth, thus theoretically making Nurgle classifiable as a "life-death-rebirth" deity as well as a fertility deity in the vein of Osiris and Persephone; however, in practice he's heavily biased towards the former (which is reflected by the vast majority of his known titles being things like "Fly Lord", "Lord of Decay", and "Plaguefather").

Ghe, on the other hand, would emphasize the "positive" aspects so that they're on par with the "negative" ones, resulting in a duality of manifestations:

  • Ghe's "bright" aspect is a heavily pregnant Earth Mother nursing a child at her breast, whose domain is a beautiful garden of healthy greenery and animals, with both the deity and the animals hosting benign plant and fungal life across much of their bodies in an aesthetically pleasing manner, and all while microbial life harmlessly proliferates immensely both within and outside of their bodies.
  • In contrast, Ghe's dark aspect turns the garden into a rotting world of plague-ridden and vermin-infestednote  life, noxious swamps, filth-saturated mud and crumbling stone, with the aforementioned microbes now having free rein to run rampant to sicken their hosts (who nevertheless endure and even thrive despite/because of this) and eat away at inanimate matter. The goddess herself... well, let's just say that her breast "milk" is mostly germ-ridden pus and leave the rest to your imagination.

Note that the bright aspect is not an illusion that conceals the dark one; neither one is more or less real than the other.

Now, what I need right now is a fitting "main" title for Ghe as well as a name for her domain that adequately reflects the dualistic nature of this goddess.

Edited by MarqFJA on Sep 15th 2019 at 8:48:03 PM

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Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#5578: Sep 16th 2019 at 9:41:33 AM

I need names for alien measurements of time. Viporises have faster reflexes than humans but longer lifespans, they'd gravitate towards shorter increments of small time measurements and longer increments of large time measurements. It gets a little harder around seasons and the equivalent of months and years, because Viporises are on the moon of a gas giant, not a planet directly orbiting the sun.

Until new names for time measurements can be found for Viporises, they will be prefixed with v- while human time measurements will be prefixed with h-

    Mathematical data inside 
  • 2 v-seconds in 1 h-second
  • 120 v-seconds in 1 h-minute
  • 36 h-seconds in 1 v-minute
  • 72 v-seconds in 1 v-minute
  • 1 v-minute and 48 v-seconds in 1 h-minute
  • 5 v-minutes per 3 h-minutes
  • 36 v-minutes in 1/2 v-hour
  • 72 v-minutes in 1 v-hour
  • 100 v-minutes per h-hour
  • 1 v-hour and 28 v-minutes in 1 h-hour
  • 33 v-hours and 24 v-minutes in 24 h-hours
  • 36 v-hours for their home moon to spin once
  • 6 v-days in 1 v-week
  • 18 v-days or 3 v-weeks in 1 v-month
  • 12 v-months for the moon to orbit the gas giant once
  • moon orbits gas giant 36 times per gas giant orbit
  • 432 v-days for the gas giant to make one orbit

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Andermann Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: Desperate
#5579: Sep 27th 2019 at 5:09:02 AM

In my story, when a person is about to die, they can bring out thousand times more power than they usually can by literally burning out their soul, as a desperate attempt to make a difference or leave their mark on the world.

I need a term for this, I’m thinking “The final spark”.

I'm afraid to write, but I like to imagine.
TitanJump Since: Sep, 2013 Relationship Status: Singularity
#5580: Sep 27th 2019 at 11:21:08 AM

[up] "Tunnel Light" (alluding to the mysterious "Ligth at the end of death's tunnel" which is basically the pupils contracting involuntarily in a spasm, shutting off all light in a tiny dot before loosening up and dilating again.)

However, the "spasm" can be applied to the whole body in your story and unleash the full potential of it with zero limiters applied in order to keep the body alive for one final push until help arrives

Sometimes it still dies afterwards though, depending on the injury and its nature alongside with its severity.

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Andermann Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: Desperate
#5581: Sep 27th 2019 at 3:31:43 PM

I need something of opposite direction.

Because using Final spark is basically abandoning all chance of survival, by burning up your soul, you've made sure you're not gonna make it out alive no matter what, it's a display of determination and willpower to see things through the end til death as oppose to unwavering survival instinct.

Edited by Andermann on Sep 27th 2019 at 6:35:39 PM

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AdeptGaderius Otaku from the Anime World Since: Nov, 2018 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#5582: Sep 27th 2019 at 6:14:13 PM

I'm writing mythology for my story. I need a name for a holy mountain with multiple peaks and palaces located at the center of known universe in Amarelo mythology. It is a place where most of the Joss-Joss (deities/divinities/spirits) reside.

Amarelo mythology is based on mythologies and lore from various cultures and religions from Asia. This was a result of intermixing between several Asian slave communities in Iberian America which gave rise to a range of syncretic beliefs that combines aspects of Asian religions, whose deities manifest themselves as distorted and mixed iterations of themselves, along with the cosmology.

MorningStar1337 The Encounter that ended the Dogma from 🤔 Since: Nov, 2012
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#5583: Sep 27th 2019 at 6:20:52 PM

[up][up] How about the following?:

  • "Ultimate Testament": Ultimate referring to it as a byword "the best" and a synonym "final". and Testament as in "Last Testament", which the name could be parsed as.
  • "Dying (of the) Light": alluding to a poem called "Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night" which is the Trope Namer for Do Not Go Gentle.
  • "Supernova": Alluding to....supernovas.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Sep 27th 2019 at 6:21:46 AM

Andermann Since: Aug, 2018 Relationship Status: Desperate
#5584: Sep 27th 2019 at 7:17:52 PM

Dying light or Supernova sounds good, thanks.

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eagleoftheninth Shop all day, greed is free from a dreamed portrait, imperfect Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#5585: Sep 27th 2019 at 9:57:03 PM

[up]x7: Probably a bit late, but do the Viporises interact with humans in the story? If not, I recommend just keeping the names of our measurement units, since having a lot of new terms thrown around will probably confuse the reader. This could apply even if there are humans in the story - after all, our months and years wouldn't mean anything outside Earth's vicinity, and it would make sense for the Viporises to derive their v-minutes and v-seconds from their own planetary orbit. You could implement their different understanding of time as a part of their language barrier with humans, if it makes sense in the story.

[up]x3: The most generic option (and the first one to come to mind) would be some variant of "Heavenly Mountain" (IRL Tian Shan/Tengri Tagh). If you're borrowing from Dharmic theology, you could also use Mount Meru and its various names as a basis.

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Miss_Desperado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YD2i1FzUYA from somewhere getting rained on by Puget Sound Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#5586: Sep 28th 2019 at 9:59:26 PM

[up] Most of the starring Viporises in my story are astronaut/ambassadors, the two with the most time in the spotlight are in a mixed-species quasi-superhero organization alongside humans, mermaids, more aliens, etc. The Viporises' different understanding of time as a part of their language barrier with humans is multiplied with each new talking species the Viporises encounter. Furthermore, their different sense of time would affect their perspectives and reports during debriefing sessions following skirmishes against zombies, necromancers, hostile aliens, Off the Wagon vampires, the local mind-controller, etc. All that means that I can't get away with just using my placeholders.

Edited by Miss_Desperado on Sep 29th 2019 at 11:12:03 AM

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sifsand Madman Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: Browsing the selection
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#5587: Sep 29th 2019 at 7:20:38 AM

Hey, I just need help with a title for my book. The basic plot at the moment is the main character is a female monster hunter takes on a male apprentice because he failed to pay her. The setting is a semi-realistic medieval fantasy.

MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
#5588: Sep 29th 2019 at 8:30:48 AM

I need a name for an interstellar human polity — one of several such entities in its setting — that is a Space Romans amalgamation of primarily the German Empire and Imperial Japan, with dashes of Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

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ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss
#5589: Sep 29th 2019 at 8:45:17 AM

[up][up] Where does the story go with that? Is it a set of episodic adventures? Is there an overarching plot? What sort of tone does it have—comedic, dramatic, tragic, etc.? How does the relationship between those two develop? (These things might provide some direction in finding a title.)

[up] The Imperial Union, perhaps?

Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Sep 29th 2019 at 5:47:45 PM

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#5590: Sep 29th 2019 at 8:51:15 AM

The Imperial Union of what, exactly? "Imperial Union" alone is too generic.

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#5591: Sep 29th 2019 at 9:52:59 AM

Hmm... Perhaps turn it around to make the "Unified Empire", then? The idea being that it is not merely an empire, but the empire.

(If that's still too generic, then I leave it for others—I don't know the states in question well enough to be confident in what sort of culture a merging of them might have.)

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#5592: Sep 29th 2019 at 10:16:33 AM

The culture I'm imagining is basically majority German with a Japanese plurality. Linguistically, though, it's represented by English interspersed with German and Japanese vocabulary note .

Edited by MarqFJA on Sep 29th 2019 at 8:22:57 PM

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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#5593: Sep 29th 2019 at 11:01:04 AM

I’d second “Imperial Union”. If it needs to be more specific you could always make that the colloquial name, similar to “United States” or “the Republic” and things like that, and add more context to the formal name.

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Millership from Kazakhstan Since: Jan, 2014
#5594: Sep 29th 2019 at 11:07:15 AM

[up][up]Could you please post an example of some in-universe phrases that use the language structure you described? I get the feeling that you're looking for a very specific answer, but don't quite understand what you exactly need.

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MarqFJA The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer from Deserts of the Middle East (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
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#5595: Sep 29th 2019 at 1:31:35 PM

... Look, you know how Germany is formally known as the "Federal Republic of Germany"? I'm looking for the counterpart to "Germany" in such a name.

[up] It's just English with Gratuitous German and, to a lesser extent, Gratuitous Japanese.

Edited by MarqFJA on Sep 29th 2019 at 11:35:27 AM

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Millership from Kazakhstan Since: Jan, 2014
#5596: Sep 30th 2019 at 3:13:38 AM

How about a play on Japan's poetic name, Land of the Rising Sun?

  1. Tagesanbruchland Union (the land of breaking dawn union)
  2. Sonnenaufgang Imperium (sunrise empire)
Or something along these lines?

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#5597: Sep 30th 2019 at 7:46:50 AM

@Miss_Desperado: Hmm. Wouldn't it be more practical for the group to use some sort of standardised natural unit - say, one based on the Planck time? If you want to portray a language barrier without confusing the reader too much, it's probably best to have the Viporises speak in "seconds" and "minutes" and let everyone else translate that into their seconds and minutes later.

@sifsand: Anything more you can tell us about the story? Tone, characterisation, cultural influences?

@Marq: Been a while since my A2, but you can't go too wrong with Warhammer Fantasy-style faux-German names. My first thought was to look up German-derived gairaigo terms, and one of the first ones to come up was aizen, from Eisen (iron). I think that's a good starting point for your name: you could tack on an English suffix (Aizenspace, Aizensphere...) or, at the risk of looping back into a generically German sound, something along the lines of "Aizenreich", I guess. Else you could go with some variant of "Alemanni", like maybe "Almain" or "Almania". It means "all men", after all.

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sifsand Madman Since: Jan, 2014 Relationship Status: Browsing the selection
Madman
#5598: Sep 30th 2019 at 12:31:42 PM

[up] Well the plot from the start is the main character is that the monster hunter was employed to take care of a wyvern that keeps eating this guys sheep (he's a farmer). He promises to pay her after the fact and, surprise surprise, he has nothing to offer. She threatens to just put the wyvern back where she found it or he can work with her as her apprentice to pay off his debt.

The overall tone is not meant to be completely serious but not be silly if that makes sense. Cultural influences would probably be the classic medieval european style you see so often in fantasy works. As for the characterization on the other hand, I want it to be a growing relation between the two as they work together.

DivineFlame100 Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#5599: Sep 30th 2019 at 12:45:17 PM

Well, I'm struggling to come up with a title for my light novel series, so I would like some help please.

To save you a lengthy explanation of what my light novel is about, I'll just link you here instead.

The original title I came up with was Apostles of the Morning and Evening Star, but I had to drop it after I realized that the "Apostles of the Star" part is already used in the manga Black Cat, so now I'm left with blanks. I want to keep the "Morning and Evening Star" part though since it's relevant to my story setting.

To give you a hint, my light novel is a story of self-discovery for my protagonist, so I want something that will reflect on that meaning.

ArsThaumaturgis Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: I've been dreaming of True Love's Kiss

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