Thinking Big - Torq's landgrab - choose a territory

[DarkOne]

Should create a forum for this project, it is going to be big in the end. Have a sticky of completed maps with link to thread for the map. Come up with a world name for the forum title too.

[Venardhi]

I would tend to agree.

[su_liam]

I'd suggest Slartibartfast Project, but I'm keeping that for myself... oops.

[NeonKnight]

Ahhh, World names. I like simplistic names.

Lets look to what we call out world: EARTH. Named because of the land, the ground the earth on which we stand.

The World of Greyhawk is named Oerth as slight variation of our own world.

The world of Faerun and the Forgotten Realms is known as Abeir-Toril or sometimes just Toril, meaning 'Cradle of Life'

I have just finished reading the entire World War/Colonization series by Harry Turtledove (a great read, and I highly recommend it). In the books, the home planet of the aliens is known simply as Home, and our planet is called Tosev III (as Earth orbits the Star Tosev in their language/astronomy). Other planets in the Races empire is Hallasi and Rabotev.

So, funny names aside, I believe a planet name should sound realistic and have some sort of Meaning (like Earth/Oerth, Abeir-Toril, or Home).

[Venardhi]

Perhaps a poll of participants is in order once we fill the grid? Even just to name the continent/'kingdom' and then down the line when it can truely be called a world and not just a corner of one, we can give her a name.

[Kagehito]

We could use a generic term, like Gaia, Gaea, Geo, or Terra for example.

Or, some thing simple along the lines of Aigir, Tolos, Finear, or anything that has mostly soft consonents with variable combinations of double vowels.

That leads to simple words that are still unique sounding, without going to overboard.

Also if we take both one and two, we can use tha cliche terms and change them slightly to create things like; Tierra, Gairan, Erenith, Geois, Gianu, etc.

Whatever we chose, it has to be something that is short and rolls of the tounge, because even if its going to be called Rinthnorgmehrgocklugsomin, people would end up calling it Rinth.

(PS, thats actually a place in my world map; funny story... when the Gnomish Kings; Rinth, Norg, Mehrg, Ockslug, and Somin joined there kingdoms, after a 10 year debate on what to call the new kingdom, it became that... they had to draw straws to see whos names whould go in what order of course...)

[Venardhi]

Well, if we work of other names for earth, lets look a bit off the map from the generic Terra/Gaia/Earth

Tellus, Erde, Ina Maka, Jorda, Era, Erdaz, Orthe, etc. are all names once (and still for some) used for the Earth in various cultures.

Perhaps combine a couple of them: Jinde, Ordas, Jorth, Inas, Jorus, Inthe, Elluth, etc.

Plenty of possibilities, the only question is how to get everyone to agree.

[NeonKnight]

Well, if we work of other names for earth, lets look a bit off the map from the generic Terra/Gaia/Earth

Tellus, Erde, Ina Maka, Jorda, Era, Erdaz, Orthe, etc. are all names once (and still for some) used for the Earth in various cultures.

Perhaps combine a couple of them: Jinde, Ordas, Jorth, Inas, Jorus, Inthe, Elluth, etc.

Plenty of possibilities, the only question is how to get everyone to agree.

I am up for ANYTHING except TELLUS. I work for a Phone Company called TELUS and I hate them

So, no TELLUS.


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[hans_worst]

Well, if we work of other names for earth, lets look a bit off the map from the generic Terra/Gaia/Earth

Tellus, Erde, Ina Maka, Jorda, Era, Erdaz, Orthe, etc. are all names once (and still for some) used for the Earth in various cultures.

Perhaps combine a couple of them: Jinde, Ordas, Jorth, Inas, Jorus, Inthe, Elluth, etc.

Plenty of possibilities, the only question is how to get everyone to agree.

I like the names of the old continents:
Pangea
Gondwana
Panthalassa
Laurasia