Realms named after characters

[Indirik]

You're not seriously going to start playing the "real definition" card are you?

[Zakilevo]

LOL

[Vellos]

Wow.

I just noted the typo.

Wow.

Just... wow.

[NoblesseChevaleresque]

You're not seriously going to start playing the "real definition" card are you?

I was more trying to excuse the typo, which I like on that basis. Better to be Farron than Farrow, and I don't just say that because one of my nobles has the family name Farron. (I'll be damned if Mendicant has to fight a war to put Farron on the Farronite Throne).

[Gustav Kuriga]

That... uhm.. isn't the part with the typo... *coughs* look at the second word

[Telrunya]

So THAT is the typo mentioned! Oops! Hopefully for the Republic someone will be so nice to change it, but a good lesson for future Realm creations: Triple-check the name :P

[Draco Tanos]

You know, that's actually a pretty common typo for Republic.  No idea why.  Freudian, perhaps?

[Perth]

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Aurvandil/Imperial_Cartographique_Institution

This is literally one of the original causes of friction between the 'Moot and Aurvandil. Or, at least, it really pissed off Terran/'Moot leadership when it was discovered they were doing that.

[Eldargard]

Really? Terran became upset over the fact that a different country used different names for the same geographical features? Why was that so offensive? Did they try and force Terran to use the same titles?

[Chenier]

Really? Terran became upset over the fact that a different country used different names for the same geographical features? Why was that so offensive? Did they try and force Terran to use the same titles?

No, because they started claiming some Barca lands in that cartography.

[vonGenf]

And, from an OOC point of view, that's actually a great way to create the sort of friction wars thrive on in BM.

[Chenier]

And, from an OOC point of view, that's actually a great way to create the sort of friction wars thrive on in BM.

Sure, just don't act surprised if people are pissed off as a result.

[Vellos]

Really? Terran became upset over the fact that a different country used different names for the same geographical features? Why was that so offensive? Did they try and force Terran to use the same titles?

In RL, map designations have been cited in numerous international court cases as grounds for establishing claim. Map-drawing was intensely political in the Middle Ages as well.

Publication of geographic designations is INTENSELY political.

They specified part of Barca's lands as part of "Mendicontinent." Them's fightin' words.

[NoblesseChevaleresque]

Oh, well that makes more sense, I was under the impression the Moot just decided to have a grudge for a grudges sake.

We didn't claim any new land at all, the point of the Imperial Cartographique institution is to name the geography appropriately, that and to give my players a chance to have some input on the culture and civilisation, and not to lay out our intended political map and realm geography. Anyone who thinks otherwise has missed the point. The Orvandeaux Candiela was decided upon before we were even aware of a Barcan claim over the regions anyway. Declaring the Mendicontinent and the Allo'mere are the closest thing to an outright claim to political dominion, and considering at the time it was made Mendicant was in possession of all the territories, it's not exactly provocative.

[NoblesseChevaleresque]

In RL, map designations have been cited in numerous international court cases as grounds for establishing claim. Map-drawing was intensely political in the Middle Ages as well.

Publication of geographic designations is INTENSELY political.

They specified part of Barca's lands as part of "Mendicontinent." Them's fightin' words.

They weren't published at large, they were only ever published within the Aurvandilan University and Noblesse to be discussed and considered, which is why they had only three things on it and the rest unnamed. Of course since we had them up on the wiki everyone else assumed their characters would be in full possession of such knowledge..