[Mkguild] Town at the base of the valley

[JL Badgley]

So would people prefer 'Valecester', or some variation thereof?  I
honestly didn't figure in a world where the valley is called 'Metamor'
that I'd get quite the negative reaction that Ryx gave.

-Tatsushu

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:01 AM,  <Sealord18 at aol.com> wrote:
> According to my Latin to English dictionary here though it is 10 years old,
> Valley in Latin is (con)vallis.  Hope this helps you though am not really
> sure.
>
> Cetas (who one of these days is writing a MK story)
>
> In a message dated 8/21/2008 10:34:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tatsushu at gmail.com writes:
>
> 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
>
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