Serpenteye
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The Severed Sisters (as part of their initiation ceremony they remove a bodypart of their choice, the more important the part the greater their prestige)
Quick: Need a name for a coven of witches!
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Jack Haggerty
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Do you really need a name for them to be memorable?
I'd think the Coven would have a one or more simple names for themselves that described precisely what they are... The Servants of Wee-Jas, for example. When together and referring to each other, it'd be easiest and proper for them just to call each other "sisters".
The local townspeople however, would be superstitious about them, and the Sisters would, of course, be tight-lipped toward them. I can imagine the locals speaking about the coven only in hushed whispers, so as not to draw their attention. If pressed, they'd refer to them simply as "The Witches" with an accompanying hand gesture to ward off the Evil Eye.
But suit yourself, it's your game.
I'd think the Coven would have a one or more simple names for themselves that described precisely what they are... The Servants of Wee-Jas, for example. When together and referring to each other, it'd be easiest and proper for them just to call each other "sisters".
The local townspeople however, would be superstitious about them, and the Sisters would, of course, be tight-lipped toward them. I can imagine the locals speaking about the coven only in hushed whispers, so as not to draw their attention. If pressed, they'd refer to them simply as "The Witches" with an accompanying hand gesture to ward off the Evil Eye.
But suit yourself, it's your game.
tarchon
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As a general rule secret evil cults are best advised not to call themselves things like the "Vile Conclave of the Apocalypse." That tends to make people suspicious when they overhear you talking to your fellow conspirators and you say something like "Oh the Fellows of the Blood-Stained Dagger are having their picnic in the old graveyard at midnight. It's bring-your-own-virgin this year, since the bake sale didn't go so well."
No, you call yourselves "the Windhund Social Club" or "the 39 Steps", "the Gleek Society of Upper Millhaven," "the Tooth-Grinding Support Group." If you go around calling yourself "the Weird Sisters of the Shimmering Void," you deserve to have a bunch of nominally good-aligned thugs bust you up and take all your magic items.
No, you call yourselves "the Windhund Social Club" or "the 39 Steps", "the Gleek Society of Upper Millhaven," "the Tooth-Grinding Support Group." If you go around calling yourself "the Weird Sisters of the Shimmering Void," you deserve to have a bunch of nominally good-aligned thugs bust you up and take all your magic items.
Nifft
Penguin Herder
Psion said:
What kind of a demoness is Nocticula? Taking tarchon's advice into account, they'd name themselves for some positive feature of their patron ("good spin").
Here are some quick ones off the top of my head:
Spiders -> Sparkling Skein
Snakes -> Patient Watcher
Death -> Lulabye
Storms -> Shower
Floods -> Laughing River
Insanity -> Fool
Torture -> Manners
Famine -> Clean
Here's a use example:
"Ach, I remembers th' last thorp what didn't respect the Clean Ladies. I's eight when they come, a-flyin' cross the moon. We didn't hear nothin' from Yakhollow for three days -- we went out there, see, an' saw then what clean means. The fields were gleaned clean, an' the crows an' wolves had picked the bones clean. Don' know what they cursed 'em with, but those fields are clean an' clear o' crops to this day. You don't go messin' with the Clean Ladies -- lessin' you want them ta clean yer scythe for ya."
-- Nifft
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