This is the thread specificly for choosing our people's name. All options need a second reccomendation to go up in a poll. This discussion will continue until we believe that the time has come to poll the names.

My suggestion:
Ivalician Empire

Dyphotian, Dyphotia- root from the greek for enlightened, before anyone says that is too faction related and doesn't represent us, remember that we are enlightened now and have discovered civilization.

Skiachorian, Skiachoria-rooted from shadow dancer, which is an allusion to the platos cave, being the people who control the shadows on the wall, ie controllers of the masses. We plan on herding the masses of other nations to our designs.

Anyways thats what I have now.

Dyphotian, Dyphotia- root from the greek for enlightened, before anyone says that is too faction related and doesn't represent us, remember that we are enlightened now and have discovered civilization.

Skiachorian, Skiachoria-rooted from shadow dancer, which is an allusion to the platos cave, being the people who control the shadows on the wall, ie controllers of the masses. We plan on herding the masses of other nation, to our designs.

Anyways thats what I have now.


Wow! How do you come up with these names? :clap: I like both names, but Dyphotia more, because Skiachoria sounds more warlike/aggresive. Maybe a good name for the Warlords city?

Another proposal. Since we got three factions founding this country, Triad Coalition, Tribal Council and Timus the Protector, I suggest a fine name being an amalgation of three core faction names, and be true to our legacy and history, yet get an original and good name.

The name proposal is

Triambusians

(Triad opening omitting "d", hybridized with tribals for added honoring "b" and the "us" for honoring Timus and plural for "ians" suffix".)

So like triadites? How touching

Hmmm, I'm a fan of Dyphotia.

Btw Shattered, where did you come up with Ivalicians? That sounds very familiar...

As our leaderhead is Alexander, and since our random civ is Japan, I felt that sharing some of the greek mythology around Poseidon, God of the Sea and of Horses might shed some light on a name choice.

I propose that we be named the Cenaead (Sinn-ay-id) people after the invulnerable warrior, named Caeneus, created by Poseidon, as mentioned in the following excerpt from a Greek Mythology website. (http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1gkRcWi0izYJ:www.spaceandmotion.com/Theology-Greek-Gods-Myths.htm+greek+warrior+philosopher&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us)

Poseidon
(puh-SYE-dun or poh-SYE-dun; Roman name Neptune) was the god of the sea, earthquakes and horses. Although he was officially one of the supreme gods of Mount Olympus, he spent most of his time in his watery domain.
Poseidon was brother to Zeus and Hades. These three gods divided up creation. Zeus was ruler of the sky, Hades had dominion of the Underworld and Poseidon was given all water, both fresh and salt.

In dividing heaven, the watery realm and the subterranean land of the dead, the Olympians agreed that the earth itself would be ruled jointly, with Zeus as king. This led to a number of territorial disputes among the gods. Poseidon vied with Athena to be patron deity of Athens. The god demonstrated his power and benevolence by striking the Acropolis with his three-pronged spear, which caused a spring of salt water to emerge.
Athena, however, planted an olive tree, which was seen as a more useful favor. Her paramount importance to the Athenians is seen in her magnificent temple, the Parthenon, which still crowns the Acropolis. The people of Athens were careful, all the same, to honor Poseidon as well (as soon as his anger calmed down and he withdrew the flood of seawater with which he ravaged the land after his loss in the contest with Athena).

Poseidon was father of the hero Theseus, although the mortal Aegeus also claimed this distinction. Theseus was happy to have two fathers, enjoying the lineage of each when it suited him. Thus he became king of Athens by virtue of being Aegeus's son, but availed himself of Poseidon's parentage in facing a challenge handed him by King Minos of Crete. This monarch threw his signet ring into the depths of the sea and dared Theseus to retrieve it. The hero dove beneath the waves and not only found the ring but was given a crown by Poseidon's wife, Amphitrite.
Poseidon was not so well-disposed toward another famous hero. Because Odysseus blinded the Cyclops Polyphemus, who was Poseidon's son, the god not only delayed the hero's homeward return from the Trojan War but caused him to face enormous perils. At one point he whipped up the sea with his trident and caused a storm so severe that Odysseus was shipwrecked.
Poseidon similarly cursed the wife of King Minos. Minos had proved his divine right to rule Crete by calling on Poseidon to send a bull from the sea, which the king promised to sacrifice. Poseidon sent the bull, but Minos liked it too much to sacrifice it. So Poseidon asked Aphrodite, the goddess of love, to make Minos's queen, Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull. The result was the monstrous Minotaur, half-man, half-bull.
As god of horses, Poseidon often adopted the shape of a steed. It is not certain that he was in this form when he wooed Medusa. But when Perseus later killed the Gorgon, the winged horse Pegasus sprang from her severed neck. Poseidon sometimes granted the shape-shifting power to others. And he ceded to the request of the maiden Caenis that she be transformed into the invulnerable, male warrior Caeneus.

Both of Ballazics names are good imho.

Wow! How do you come up with these names? :clap: I like both names, but Dyphotia more, because Skiachoria sounds more warlike/aggresive. Maybe a good name for the Warlords city?

I just looked up some greek words and then shortened them and anglacised them a little.
Thanks though:blush:

^^bumpmeister^^ :D

How about Yamatokos...

Yamato, but with a Greek-sounding ending?

Yama is Japanese for mountain, and we are not in a mountainous region.

If it was more in line, it would be another word, and pigs,horses and fish is not that exciting to be named after.

Yama is Japanese for mountain, and we are not in a mountainous region.

If it was more in line, it would be another word, and pigs,horses and fish is not that exciting to be named after.

I meant Yamato in the sense of the Yamato period of Japanese history

Can someone soon set up a poll over these proposals? This is an issue all should decide, as we are playing as this nationality the entire game.

I also propose:

Triadians (The founding factions dynasty)
Treislofosoi (Three Hills people)

Anyone ok that we poll nation name right now?


Ivalician Empire
Dyphotian
Skiachorian
Triambusians
Cenaeads
Yamatokos
Triadians
Treislofosoi

Maybe we should have a name for our people, but also a name for the ruling dynasty.

On the other hand, some factions don't RP a Royalty bloodline.

I think we wait until we got 2 more options (total of 10) then we poll them until one got 50 % or more support.

Maybe we should have a name for our people, but also a name for the ruling dynasty.
I think the plan was to come up with a "base" name, and we can add little modifiers to it like "Kingdom of" or "Republic of." We already have "dynasty" names through the names of the factions.

I still wait for 2 more options, then we poll them.

Ivalician Empire
Dyphotian
Skiachorian
Cenaeads
Yamatokos
Treislofosoi

I like these. The two others is a bit too Triad-based.
Maybe some more japanese-based names as we are, after all, playing the japanese... Anyone who knows some japanese? I know that yama means mountain, I can't remember what "tera" means, but I know it's something like "faith" or "belief"... :confused::lol::blush:

All, rite, count out my triad based proposals then, I got some other ideas:

Elysians, Elysia
Werengians, Werengia
Atakasians, Atakasia
Pashantians, Pashantia

Eleytheros Pouli :mischief:

All, rite, count out my triad based proposals then, I got some other ideas:

Elysians, Elysia
Werengians, Werengia
Atakasians, Atakasia
Pashantians, Pashantia

whats with all the 'ia's?

Not that I have any ideas... except the Zaxklofters of the empire of "Zaxkloft"

Sekihanasu- It means House Divide ie a house divided amongst ourselves
Jinhi- People light- I think its short and sweet

We need something short and sweet and no one will misspell

We need something short and sweet and no one will misspell


Jinhi- People light- I think its short and sweet

Solution? I kind of like Jinhi, but what would we call people? Jinhians? And how is it pronounced? Gin-he? Zhin-hai? Sounds a little awkward...

Zonnerites

Because I'm and old fart who has been playing this game for too long, I'll throw out "Fanatica" as a suggestion since, well, we've used it a lot already. :p

LOL, Fanatica, we already named the Babylonians up north that, I have not got the best connotations with that name.

Kaze-It is Japanese for the element of air. The Area that our great nation resides in would realisticly have a fair amount of wind coming off the ocean.

Minzoku-Japanese for nation.

Kazeminzoku, Minzokukaze-Nation of Winds?

Also my avatar is the Kanji symbol for wind.

Something short and trivially easy to spell correctly, every time. Last thing in the world we need is something that everyone has to either look up or butcher.

And if it has a derivation, please post it. Some of you are doing well with that, others seem to be stringing together nonsense syllables. :rolleyes:

I find Zonnerites to be good. Zonn is German for sun, sun is the Japanese logo on every unit in the game, -ites is a good final added suffix for many.

Minzokuzonn,Minzokuzians?
I thought since Minzoku means nation and Zonn means sum we could be "Nation Sun" or"Nation of Suns"?

I find Zonnerites to be good. Zonn is German for sun, sun is the Japanese logo on every unit in the game, -ites is a good final added suffix for many.

In English Zonnerites would be Sunrites, which sounds to me like some sort of a desease.

Precephtia, Precephtians?

The Peeps?

The Aikousophs (japanese "aikou" for love, greek "sophia" for wisdom, ending changed to indicate people)

The Peeps?

That is the name of my fantasy hockey team.:)
They are curently in the last day of there season and fighting to win the championship

go Peeps
go Peep
go PEEPS

PPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPP PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

How about Aretians, of the Aretan Empire, many civilisations have been named after their capital city. Particularly in the ancient ages

I could go for the Aretans, as the Japanese "Ti" sound does not exist.

I could go for the Aretans, as the Japanese "Ti" sound does not exist.

No one said that our name had to be Japanese.

My vote goes to Arethan Empire and the Arethians.

That extra 'h' does it for me. :cool:

Arethans is good

I could go for Aretans.

After learning of the fortuitous event...the discovery of horses to the west of our capital, I vote with naming us the Friesians! During the Middle Ages, the ancestors of Friesian horses were in great demand as war horses throughout continental Europe. They are a breed of horse from Friesland, a province of the Netherlands. They embody power and flexibility, something I think we all want our empire to take to heart, no?Check it out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesian_horse), and it's a great sounding name that's easy to remember!

I disagree with naming our entire civilization after horses; our civ is not at all based around horses. Nothing against calling that region Friesland or whatever, but I think a more philosophical kind of name is better. Aretans I like.

Aretans sounds too much like the French word for stop, areter.

Are we a nation of stoppers?

After learning of the fortuitous event...the discovery of horses to the west of our capital, I vote with naming us the Friesians! During the Middle Ages, the ancestors of Friesian horses were in great demand as war horses throughout continental Europe. They are a breed of horse from Friesland, a province of the Netherlands. They embody power and flexibility, something I think we all want our empire to take to heart, no?Check it out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesian_horse), and it's a great sounding name that's easy to remember!

I live in the Netherlands and I'm 25% Fries myself. I must say I never heard of the Friesian horses and Friesland is NOT famous for its horses in the Netherlands (its famous for iceskates ;)) maybe it was in the middle ages, but what did you want to call our nation? Friesland?

Areter = to stop
Arator was a sixth century Christian poet from Liguria in northwestern Italy.
There are alot of other insignificant translations, does it matter?

Arethan = nothing yet so its a unique name :cool:

Arethan Empire

/hands cookie

yes it is ftw

I don't like naming the civ after horses and neither do I like Arethans. Sounds too much like the french "to stop" (arete), and like our capital, Arete (?)

What about Varcussians?

Anyone have a random name generator? Set it to 3 or 4 syllibles.

I suggest we poll all the proposed ones, I set up a poll with all options in 35 min.

I suggest we poll all the proposed ones, I set up a poll with all options in 35 min.


Great idea.

I don't really like Arethans, as it sounds like urethra, or the green, ammonium carrying component of urine.

We should get moving on this. May I suggest a nomination system to make names eligible to vote? That way, Provo has to pick one name to nominate rather then his hundreds of suggestions ;)

But seriously, this is a way to narrow the names down, because we have so many suggestions that it would impossible to poll them all.

Ok, I put up a nomination thread, of only one proposal per player.

I don't really like Arethans, as it sounds like urethra, or the green, ammonium carrying component of urine.

That's just as ridiculous as New York sounding like New Pork.

Poll is up per OP specifications that all names needed a second nomination.

That's just as ridiculous as New York sounding like New Pork.

IF IF IF IF that is the chosen name, one could make the argument for a silent "A" and a silent "h", so it would be pronounced Retans...but that's like the weave style deck furniture...One man's "hurruhnn?" is another's "aha!"

Or whatever, we're all here to have fun, but I would like a name that flowed with RP-style stories, etc...

That's just as ridiculous as New York sounding like New Pork.

I don't know why, but I loled for a really long time at this :lol: