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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 2157667" data-attributes="member: 5468">My bad, I even had this in my head as I constructed this.My initial thought was that it could have occured during the civil war and thus inside Eyros(hence the sound of the title) and would account for the recognition given the Rukharn Light Warstriders, since it would serve to bind the Rukharn more closely to the legitimate emperor, but I thought I'd leave this out in case someone else had a better idea.I could easily toss in some astronomy, but it ends up going (forgive the term) "cosmic", and it seemed like the most pressing needs would be to fill in the gaps at the smallest, most mundane levels (hence describing trends among gangs and clans at sizes well below the Great Houses).Julius and Augustus Caesar renamed months after themselves.  What if Imperial Astronomers redrew constellations for great Emperors?  (Perhaps less noteworthy Emperors only got stars named after themselves).  For example, Vekkar the Farseeing paid for great expeditions to explore the seas around Eyros, to seek out markets and possible threats, but he didn't get involved in a major land war.  For this reason, the northern Pole Star (there is one for both the northern & southern hemisphere) is named "Vekkar".It is an odd quirk of human nature that people are resistant to changing the names of places or stars/constellations.  Consider the Biblical constellations that failed to replace the classicla ones in the late Middle Ages/Renaisannce, or St. Petersburg/Leningrad/St. Petersburg, or Cape Canaveral/Cape Kennedy/Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.  This "seizure" of the constellations would also be an act of cutural imperalism against internal groups to conform to the common culture.</blockquote>

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