Author Topic: Funniest realm names (past, present, or future)  (Read 13604 times)

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How are those bad realm names?

Not sure about Summerdale, but D'Hara is just the most blatant attempt I've personally seen to gratuitously bring a fictional kingdom from outside BM into BM. Not just the name, but the position titles were copied directly from Terry Goodkind's books (which, while I like the first one, do not improve as they go along, which is probably part of my objection).
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Summerdale was the self-proclaimed succesor state of Springdale. Spring -> Summer... I thought it was kinda clever.
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Same, honestly.  Though I'd question a Falldale or Autumndale...

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Present: Mighty Cagilan Empire. Bloody MiCE.
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how is the name funny?
I used to spell it Fartonite republic all the time  :D

I always thought Outer Tilog and Assassins were weird realm names.
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Terran.


Loved the realm.

Hated the name.

The problem with that name is that it, it's adjective use, inhabitants of it, as well as their nationality are all the same word.

Also it means "Earth," in Latin, which means "dirt" in English. Terran = dirt.

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I thought he hated it because it's a StarCraft reference....

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I thought he hated it because it's a StarCraft reference....

Terran has been a word long, long before StarCraft was even an idea in someone's mind.

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Terran has been a word long, long before StarCraft was even an idea in someone's mind.

Yeah, it's Latin, but I don't think that is why it was used. Pretty positive that it was a purposeful StarCraft reference.
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Yeah, it's Latin, but I don't think that is why it was used. Pretty positive that it was a purposeful StarCraft reference.

If so, that's a pretty poor one as anyone wanting to reference the game would use Confederacy of Tarsonis...

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Or Zerg Overmind.

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Present: Mighty Cagilan Empire. Bloody MiCE.

Which would possibly be true, if that was actually its name.  ::)

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Which would possibly be true, if that was actually its name.  ::)

Your Prime Minister changed the realm's full name to the Mighty Cagilan Empire. It doesn't show up outside of the "realm government" information section at present, but its there.  Also, this:

THE MIGHTY CAGILAN EMPIRE
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Wow...

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