02-04-2014, 05:11 AM | #1 |
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Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
Do any of the people involved in the creation of Yrth know why there's a town called Thysdretum near Mehan in Megalos?
Were the letters to make it drawn out of a Scrabble bag? I don't recognise it as coming from any real world language or location and my players keep stumbling over the name as they pass through. (It's currently 1104 and they've just rescued a dozen people from the Mages' Triumvirate and discovered which of the three wizards was driving the war with the Bishop of Mehan. To their shock it wasn't the Necromancer.)
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02-04-2014, 07:32 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
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02-04-2014, 07:38 AM | #3 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
"Thighs-dread-um"
Of course, locals will have their own little nicknames, so you can come up with an alias. No. I know nothing about why it was named that nor am I any sort of authority. Just proposing solutions.
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02-04-2014, 09:11 AM | #4 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
Well Thysdrus is the classical city now called El Jem, Tunis. This looks like it could be some declination of that.
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02-04-2014, 10:14 AM | #5 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
That looks like a reasonable guess, especially considering the proximity of that RW city to Hadrumetum. The Megalan name looks like a conflation of those two.
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02-04-2014, 11:57 AM | #6 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
And Thysdrus was near a larger place called 'Hadrumetum' ...
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02-04-2014, 02:22 PM | #7 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
What's the Latin word for "mashup"?
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02-04-2014, 06:37 PM | #8 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
It's Greek, but you know "acronym" might work fine here. Despite the seeming meaning stretch, acro- is used for other word puzzles, most notably in "acrostic"
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03-17-2014, 01:18 PM | #9 |
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Re: Banestorm Question: Thysdretum?
Thank you! I'll go with the classical mashup theory until any actual evidence turns up.
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