<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cetas (who one of these days is writing a MK story)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 8/21/2008 10:34:43 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tatsushu@gmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Ryx <sundansyr@yahoo.com> wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Would anyone oppose it being the town of<BR>>> 'Montcester' (originally<BR>>> Montecester, and now pronounced<BR>>> "Mont'ster"--or perhaps less<BR>>> flattering things these days)?<BR>><BR>><BR>> 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.<BR>><BR>> 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.<BR>><BR><BR>I was figuring that 'Monster' was the name given it by outsiders, a<BR>derrogatory term.  A name those inside would correct ("It is<BR>'Montcester', sir, not 'Monster'").  The name just popped into my head<BR>as I was thinking of various town names and their early Roman<BR>antecedents, considering the Suleiman heritage of the Valley.<BR>Honestly I was thinking of using 'cester' or 'chester' simply because<BR>it seems to make sense for many settlements in the Valley and<BR>Midlands, just like it made sense in England.  I was then trying to<BR>find good prefixes.  Portchester seems like it should be on the sea<BR>(and I believe is actually a name in England), and I couldn't find<BR>'valley' to translate into Latin.  Since my Latin isn't great, I<BR>wasn't sure if it should possibly be 'Montcester', 'Montecester', or<BR>'Monticester', if any.  If people would rather, I could change the<BR>name so that it is pronounced 'Monte'ster' by the inhabitants, though<BR>I still thought that outsiders would likely call it 'Monster' these<BR>days, regardless.  Of course, to call it such in-town would likely be<BR>like calling someone a 'frog' in Paris, or perhaps calling a certain<BR>Belgian a Frenchman.<BR><BR>However, if there is enough of a response to it that it is<BR>objectionable, I can remove it.  I would like to hear what others<BR>think, however.<BR><BR>-Tatsushu<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>MKGuild mailing list<BR><BR>http://lists.integral.org/listinfo/mkguild<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">It's only a deal if it's where <I>you</I> want to go. Find your travel deal <A title="http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047" href="http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047" target="_blank"><B>here</B></A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>