I'm trying to come up with a good name for a Post-Soviet Reunion capital's, which in this scenario is a planned city built at the Novye Yurkovichi–Senkivka–Vesyalowka border tripoint between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, and is to be named after the founder of Kievan Rus'
(which all three of the aforementioned countries consider themselves descended from), Oleg of Novgorod
.
Which of these names do you think seems best? I've tried my best to take inspiration from existing cities in the regionnote
- Olegin ("Oleg's")
- Olegingrad ("Oleg's city")
- Oleginka ("Oleg's")
- Oleginsk ("Oleg's")
- Olegograd ("Oleg's city")
- Olegopol ("Oleg's city", using a Greek-derived root)
- Olegov ("Oleg's")
- Olegovka ("Oleg's")
- Olegovsk ("Oleg's")
- Olegovgrad ("Oleg's city")
Maybe it is question for same East slavic people, but my West slavic opinion is: -names without -grad make no sense for seat of power. They are names for villages, towns, smaller cities, not capital of super-state.
- I choose Olegograd (Petrograd /time specific name for Saint-Petersburg/ is the nearest analogy), but I dont speak languages of region, local people can have different and more relevant opinion.
Is this name supposed to be used by the leaders themselves, their supporters, their detractors...?
My first thought was something referencing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but that might not be the right name if you're trying to figure out what they call themselves and they genuinely believe they're doing good things.
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."Context: It's the American branch of a group of human collaborators serving an Alien empire. And the majority of them consisted of reactionary forces, wealthy elite and far-right groups, even though the Alien empire operates under an esoteric fusion of darwinisim and spartanism.
Edited by LoneCourier0 on Apr 30th 2023 at 2:58:45 PM
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."What would be a good name for a megacorp that was founded in Latin America and has made the whole region as its private fief?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.In Syndicate the corporation/crime syndicate that rules over South America is called "The Castrilos." They got started in Cuba an were big fans of Castro.
Edited by WillKeaton on May 1st 2023 at 4:15:47 AM
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The latter. Also, assume that there are other megacorps that dominate other macroregions of the planet; for example, there's Gradivus* Architechnology that dominates the US and Canada, and locks horns with the aformentioned Latin American megacorp over Mexico and the small states in Central America and the Caribbean.
Edited by MarqFJA on May 1st 2023 at 1:20:11 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Reminds me of Shadowrun's Mexico-based Aztechnology, which was originally founded as the ORO Corporation (the acronym technically stands for the surnames of its founders, but is also the Spanish word for "gold"). Any other suggestions?
Edited by MarqFJA on May 1st 2023 at 1:22:25 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.You're talking about a fictional multilatina
, I think? They seem to be named fairly similarly to anglosphere-based corporations, just in Spanishnote . Leaning more towards portmanteaus and literal industry descriptions than to acronyms that no longer stand for anything. Petrobras ("Petróleo Brasileiro"), Ambev (Companhia de Bebidas das Américas, "beverage company of the Americas), and Grupo Televisa ("Televisión Via Satélite") are pretty typical.
Edited by Noaqiyeum on May 1st 2023 at 4:10:15 PM
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Yeah, basically a multilatina... which I didn't know was an actual term, so thanks for teaching me that!
Mind you, the megacorp does use its business dominance over much of Latin America to fuel all sorts of attempts to establish new strongholds in other regional markets; not all megacorps are created equal, and so it has some strengths that allow it to compete with other megacorps in areas where they are not as good as it is.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I did say that it's a megacorp. Per the typical depiction, it has its fingers in every pie, but it's primary businesses are agriculture, extractive industry, manufacturing, and energy (with hydropower being a specialty, given they're the top constructor of hydroelectric dams on the continent).
How about... EMINAS, as a contraction of Spanish Empresas Industriales de América del Sur and Portuguese Empresas Industriais da América do Sul (both translating to "Industrial Enterprises of South America")? The name also happens to sound like a truncation of "eminence" (which exists in Spanish and Portuguese as eminencia and eminência, respectively), lending a measure of ambition behind it.
Edited by MarqFJA on May 1st 2023 at 9:13:22 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Or maybe even Eminasur/Eminasul, to more overtly emphasize the Southern Americannote origin and allegiance of the megacorp, and imply an ambition to bring Southern America to eminence on the world stage.
YMMV on whether it's genuine about generally working for Southern American interests.
Edited by MarqFJA on May 2nd 2023 at 10:06:40 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.What else could i name these people
?
I thought of a poisonous plant name for the first character that didn't have a match on comicvine, so i'd just went with Cypress due to the funeral association. I mostly came up with Taser and Crescendo randomly, is either of those actually good?
~*bleh*~What would be a good title for a story that is set in an otherworldly tropical jungle, and revolves around a version/analogue of us humans that is decidedly animalistic, living far more like real-life chimpanzees or gorillas than your typical depiction of "cavemen" (i.e. they have no concept of civilization, and tool use is as rudimentary as a chimp cracking nuts with a big stone or taking a stick and picking at an anthill)?
A superhero/supervillain adopting a nom de guerre that conventionally sounds silly can still work; it can be a case of Appropriated Appellation, or simply having an unconventional rationale that is still consistent with their overall way of thinking.
Edited by MarqFJA on May 3rd 2023 at 6:23:05 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.

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Edited by ArsThaumaturgis on Apr 28th 2023 at 10:33:24 AM
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