Prince of Happiness
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Mount Baker, is known in the native language as "Komo Kulshan" which means "White Watcher."
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Mount Baker, is known in the native language as "Komo Kulshan" which means "White Watcher."
Well, I live between Hamlin and the Blocksberg (which is noted for it being the meeting-place of the whitches on Walpurgisnacht (i.e. Beltane). The street I live in is the Junkershof (it would probably come out at something like knights's grange/homestead (though a junker is a page, but with more rights).
When you look at a lot of German town-names, you find some rather interesting names behind them. The village, I live in is calles Heisede (village in the wood, with ah golden pentacle on red as its crest). Others are rather simple: Mountain of this, Castle of that. We probably do not think enough about the names in Germany, because, somehow, we seem to have lost our feeling for country-mystcism, but with Heavensdoor quite near and devil's chasm 5 hours away, we have abundand of them.
When you look at a lot of German town-names, you find some rather interesting names behind them. The village, I live in is calles Heisede (village in the wood, with ah golden pentacle on red as its crest). Others are rather simple: Mountain of this, Castle of that. We probably do not think enough about the names in Germany, because, somehow, we seem to have lost our feeling for country-mystcism, but with Heavensdoor quite near and devil's chasm 5 hours away, we have abundand of them.
Kae'Yoss
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kolvar said:
Hex hex!!
I'm still wondering about the Two Bridges (Zweibrücken) or the Nine Churches (Neunkirchen) - which we have twice in the area.
Beyond St Wendel, Theley, and Winterbach (which I mentioned), we also also have :
a village just called village (Dorf),
another called Timber (Holz),
one called Cost Creek (Kostenbach)
Mountain Hamlet (Bergweiler)
Pot Hamlet (Düppenweiler)
Mount Foam (Schaumberg) - a mountain
Bridges (Brücken)
St. Gangolf
Bread Village (Brotdorf)
Something like Rivendell (Rissenthal)
Draughty Creek (Dörrenbach)
Frankenwood (Frankenholz)
Ship Hamlet (Schiffweiler)
Melt (Schmelz)
Hollywood (Heiligenwald)
Friedrich's Dale (Friedrichsthal)
The Fine Swamp (Beaumarais)
Mount Rock (Felsberg)
Mount Bar (Riegelsberg)
The Burning Mountain (Brennender Berg) - a mountain
Pipe Creek (Rohrbach)
Beer Creek (Bierbach)
Hunter's Delight (Jägersfreude)
Big Boot (Großer Stiefel) - a mountain
Overlords (Überherrn)
Wet Hamlet (Naßweiler)
St. Barbara
Hamlet of Tales (Merschweiler)
So it's really there. I think it's like this everywhere. It just hides in plain sight. It's so very natural for us, as we're used to see those names - especially if the words have been warped a bit.
I spent a summer in Ireland not too many years ago. One place that we stayed near was called the Gap of Dunlow- a rustic pass through a series of low mountains. Goats were plentiful there (and cute vacationing Dutch gils). There were several small, but beautiful lakes throughout the mountains, many of them littered with rocks that were great for lounging on.
A region of the town that I grew up in was called Opposumn Trot- you could populate this region with economically challenged halflings or gnomes.
Chad
A region of the town that I grew up in was called Opposumn Trot- you could populate this region with economically challenged halflings or gnomes.
Chad
Thornir Alekeg
Albatross!
My new gaming group gets together at the house of the DM - he lives on Old Blood Road.
Presto2112
Explorer
Here in Nova Scotia:
* Lake Echo (I picture a serene, almost glasslike surface to the lake, constantly covered in mist and hounting moans)
* Black Point (perhaps a high cliff rock jutting into the sea, where people are executed by throwing them off)
* Annapolis Royal (High City, largely inhabited by royalty and nobility)
* Joggins (Why do I picture a village called Joggins to be simply filled with Hobbitesque halflings?)
* My DM lives on a street called Flying Cloud Drive.
* Lake Echo (I picture a serene, almost glasslike surface to the lake, constantly covered in mist and hounting moans)
* Black Point (perhaps a high cliff rock jutting into the sea, where people are executed by throwing them off)
* Annapolis Royal (High City, largely inhabited by royalty and nobility)
* Joggins (Why do I picture a village called Joggins to be simply filled with Hobbitesque halflings?)
* My DM lives on a street called Flying Cloud Drive.
green slime
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Trollhättan:
The name "Trollhättan" comes from folkloristic tales. People believed that large trolls lived in the river Göta älv and that the islands in the river were the Trolls' hoods ("hättor"). Other former names of the site is Eidar and Stora Edet; the latter lives on in the name of the south-bordering municipality of Lilla Edet. The waterfall of Trollhättan has been theorized to be the Mimir's Well from the Norse mythology.
Castle of the Goths
Raven's Hill
The name "Trollhättan" comes from folkloristic tales. People believed that large trolls lived in the river Göta älv and that the islands in the river were the Trolls' hoods ("hättor"). Other former names of the site is Eidar and Stora Edet; the latter lives on in the name of the south-bordering municipality of Lilla Edet. The waterfall of Trollhättan has been theorized to be the Mimir's Well from the Norse mythology.
Castle of the Goths
Raven's Hill
