Anything But Normal, Sailing the Endless Falls

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Just a quick little aside for the rest of you about the regalia. You have all four pieces: the crown of fire, orb of water, staff of earth, and cloak of winds. They can be handled by anyone, can only be worn by someone with elemental blood, and can only by weilded by an elemental. So a water genasi might be able to wear them, but if they tried to use them they'd be blasted. Just FYI.

 

[Shayuri]

That's what elemental summonings are for.

 

[Rystil Arden]

That's what elemental summonings are for.

I can summon a Water Elemental once per day--she can become our new queen

Wow, if she can use the Orb of Water, my crappy little Medium Water Elemental just got much more useful

 

[Rystil Arden]

How about going for the literal?

Taala's Gift.

Then we can let everyone ELSE figure out just what that means.

It has a vaguely positive connotation, but isn't specifying just what the gift is. To some it could be mercy. To others, justice. To us...the ship itself.

Et cetera.

See, but I think we want to figure out the connotation for ourselves, as it seems that the ship is alive and is going to gain some sort of actual sentience or personality from this--thus, if we name it something generic, it may be apathetic and listless. However, we don't want to name it something like Nightshade or Demonsblood either and have it turn evil on us

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Yeah, but a lot of elementals are as smart as your average village idiot. "Dur, ok, I wear the crown. Now what?"

Besides, if a water elemental wears the fire crown they poof into a nice cloud of steam. The regalia could individually be worn by different kinds of elementals, but only an omnielemental, tempest, or a quartet of the classic elementals could get the full powers out of them. Including commanding the loyalty of the weirds.

Now, it might be possible to change the regalia, but you'd need some mighty powerful magic indeed.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, but a lot of elementals are as smart as your average village idiot. "Dur, ok, I wear the crown. Now what?"

Besides, if a water elemental wears the fire crown they poof into a nice cloud of steam. The regalia could individually be worn by different kinds of elementals, but only an omnielemental, tempest, or a quartet of the classic elementals could get the full powers out of them. Including commanding the loyalty of the weirds.

Now, it might be possible to change the regalia, but you'd need some mighty powerful magic indeed.

Awwww, don't be mean to Hyralla. She has the Intelligence of four men (who all have 1 Int)

Hmm, Nissa is half-water-weird, and Tempest is half air-elemental...

 

[Shayuri]

That's perfect actually. Dumb elemental who's summoned won't use the Orb on its own initiative. Thus I command the Orb by proxy. >

Kidding, of course.

As for Taala's Gift, it is specific to us. The ship IS Taala's gift. But perhaps if Taala's gift comes to mean something more than just the ship, it gives the ship room to grow and become more as well?

Something to think about.

I think it's better to come up with a cool name than it is to come up with a name that seems to be trying to intentionally shape the ship. We might want a ship that's good at heart, and tenacious...but the "S.S. Celestial Dire Badger" does not a good name make.

 

[Rystil Arden]

That's perfect actually. Dumb elemental who's summoned won't use the Orb on its own initiative. Thus I command the Orb by proxy. >

Kidding, of course.

As for Taala's Gift, it is specific to us. The ship IS Taala's gift. But perhaps if Taala's gift comes to mean something more than just the ship, it gives the ship room to grow and become more as well?

Something to think about.

I think it's better to come up with a cool name than it is to come up with a name that seems to be trying to intentionally shape the ship. We might want a ship that's good at heart, and tenacious...but the "S.S. Celestial Dire Badger" does not a good name make.

Celestial Dire Badger is definitely a bad name--I agree

The reason I like Winds of Destiny is that it has a positive connotation right out and it speaks to what our purpose is (it might not be a bad group name for us, actually).

Here's an idea--Eirene (meaning Peace)

 

[Shayuri]

...now Fiendish Dire Prawn...that might be a cool name. For a band. Mmm...prawns...

Peace is okay...except that we're unlikely to see much of it during the game. What about something like Peace From War, or similar... The last thing we need is a pacifist ship.

And as long as we're shuffling languages, what about Latin? Latin names are extra-nifty with cool on top.

...sadly, I don't really know Latin, so I still can't contribute any.

 

[Rystil Arden]

...now Fiendish Dire Prawn...that might be a cool name. For a band. Mmm...prawns...

Peace is okay...except that we're unlikely to see much of it during the game. What about something like Peace From War, or similar... The last thing we need is a pacifist ship.

And as long as we're shuffling languages, what about Latin? Latin names are extra-nifty with cool on top.

...sadly, I don't really know Latin, so I still can't contribute any.

The problem with Latin (and I can give you names in Latin if you want), is that a huge number of them just sound like English words with the ending changed--peace is just Pax, for instance, and fate is fatum, which would be a bit of a cop-out if we claim it was a language like Aquan. Hmm...pacifist ship might be trouble. How about something to the tune of "Guardian of Peace" or "Protector of Peace" that has the same connotation as yours but is more of a name?