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<blockquote data-quote="Nathan C." data-source="post: 8216460" data-attributes="member: 7029503">How would the names for the Otherworldly Domains have associations that people would understand though? The Domains don't match any settings in the real world or in mythology that they could be associated with. Could you provide some examples or ideas of names that you would think work? You mentioned names like WH40k's &quot;Khorde&quot;, &quot;Nurgle&quot;, and &quot;Slaanesh&quot;, but those don't exactly have a universal association with them that I can identify either. The only names I could think of that would hold universal associations to English speakers would be ones actively constructed of English words, and naming them something like &quot;Sorrow Land&quot; feels childish and sounds like the exact opposite of &quot;magical&quot;. Heaven and Hell are the only planes of existence I know that most English speakers could make an association with, but those obviously don't match very well with the Domains. Most names for fantasy places and things are entirely made-up or based on butchered pronunciations of obscure pieces of mythology; the only association they tend to bring up is emotional ones through how the words are pronounced, which the current names are already doing. I am not entirely sure what I could change the names to that would draw an association with people.Also, isn't it expected that one would use the regional name or epithet for a fantasy place&nbsp; instead of actually saying it's true name? The Characters would almost certainly be doing that already. Many occult names like that in Gothic and Weird Fiction are seldom ever said directly. For example, the term &quot;Vampyre&quot; isn't used in Dracula more than a few times in favor of just using the individual vampire's name or a descriptive epithet. In many of the Call of Cthulhu (a system that greatly inspired this one) games I have played in or viewed the true name of an otherworldly location is rarely ever used if at all and instead the name for a somewhat similar mythological place is used. The names for pretty much every creature in the World of Darkness family changes depending on the individual system being used. Can you explain further why you think using a regional name over a true name is problematic? I always thought that was the expectation rather than the exception in Horror TTRPGs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nathan C., post: 8216460, member: 7029503"] How would the names for the Otherworldly Domains have associations that people would understand though? The Domains don't match any settings in the real world or in mythology that they could be associated with. Could you provide some examples or ideas of names that you would think work? You mentioned names like WH40k's "Khorde", "Nurgle", and "Slaanesh", but those don't exactly have a universal association with them that I can identify either. The only names I could think of that would hold universal associations to English speakers would be ones actively constructed of English words, and naming them something like "Sorrow Land" feels childish and sounds like the exact opposite of "magical". Heaven and Hell are the only planes of existence I know that most English speakers could make an association with, but those obviously don't match very well with the Domains. Most names for fantasy places and things are entirely made-up or based on butchered pronunciations of obscure pieces of mythology; the only association they tend to bring up is emotional ones through how the words are pronounced, which the current names are already doing. I am not entirely sure what I could change the names to that would draw an association with people. Also, isn't it expected that one would use the regional name or epithet for a fantasy place instead of actually saying it's true name? The Characters would almost certainly be doing that already. Many occult names like that in Gothic and Weird Fiction are seldom ever said directly. For example, the term "Vampyre" isn't used in Dracula more than a few times in favor of just using the individual vampire's name or a descriptive epithet. In many of the Call of Cthulhu (a system that greatly inspired this one) games I have played in or viewed the true name of an otherworldly location is rarely ever used if at all and instead the name for a somewhat similar mythological place is used. The names for pretty much every creature in the World of Darkness family changes depending on the individual system being used. Can you explain further why you think using a regional name over a true name is problematic? I always thought that was the expectation rather than the exception in Horror TTRPGs. [/QUOTE]

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