[Mkguild] Town at the base of the valley

[JL Badgley]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Ryx <sundansyr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Would anyone oppose it being the town of
>> 'Montcester' (originally
>> Montecester, and now pronounced
>> "Mont'ster"--or perhaps less
>> flattering things these days)?
>
>
> Ah, ugh?  Let's not, please?  It lies within sight of the Keep, is within the boundaries of the curse, and naming it 'monster' would flatly give into the paranoid propaganda promulgated by all of Metamor's enemies.
>
> One thing that (most) who have been cursed do *NOT* consider themselves is monsters.  Yes, a few might, but living with so others similarly changed would ameliorate the ill feelings that they suffer having become 'something' else.
>

I was figuring that 'Monster' was the name given it by outsiders, a
derrogatory term.  A name those inside would correct ("It is
'Montcester', sir, not 'Monster'").  The name just popped into my head
as I was thinking of various town names and their early Roman
antecedents, considering the Suleiman heritage of the Valley.
Honestly I was thinking of using 'cester' or 'chester' simply because
it seems to make sense for many settlements in the Valley and
Midlands, just like it made sense in England.  I was then trying to
find good prefixes.  Portchester seems like it should be on the sea
(and I believe is actually a name in England), and I couldn't find
'valley' to translate into Latin.  Since my Latin isn't great, I
wasn't sure if it should possibly be 'Montcester', 'Montecester', or
'Monticester', if any.  If people would rather, I could change the
name so that it is pronounced 'Monte'ster' by the inhabitants, though
I still thought that outsiders would likely call it 'Monster' these
days, regardless.  Of course, to call it such in-town would likely be
like calling someone a 'frog' in Paris, or perhaps calling a certain
Belgian a Frenchman.

However, if there is enough of a response to it that it is
objectionable, I can remove it.  I would like to hear what others
think, however.

-Tatsushu