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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 8246371" data-attributes="member: 12731">Free League is literally "Fria Ligan" translated from Swedish. That name was chosen long before the considerations of international markets became an issue. It was picked from an organization in the Coriolis sci-fi game back when the Free League people were just fans.Specifically, fans of Järnringen's games. Järnringen created the edition of Mutant that's held in high regard still - I myself consider their campaign the Swedish equivalent of GWs Enemy Within or Chaosium's Masks of Nyarlathotep!  (Coriolis was an original creation of Järnringen with a unique ruleset. When Järnringen folded FL picked up the rights and issued a new edition based on their ubiquitous Year Zero game engine.)Much later Järnringen was recreated and published Symbaroum. But by then FL was successful and much bigger, so when a merger was considered, it would have made no sense to go with anything else than "Free League envelops Jarnringen". I bet the FL people felt satisfaction from being able to incorporate their old idols, the ones that came up with the organization they used to name their company no less, though!</blockquote>