Self-designation Terms for Different Monster Hunter Teams in the World

Michele · 05-27-2019, 04:57 AM

In a MH campaign set in Italy in the late 1930s, the Patron organization was the Fraternitas Sancti Leonis (of GURPS Cabal fame), and this parent organization called each monster hunter a "defensor" (plural "defensores", in Latin, defender/s). But the PCs, while aware of this designation, made a conscious choice to use opaque terms. They referred to themselves as "we" or "the group" (later, group 1 and group 2), and to the Fraternitas as "the palace". They thought that overhearing, or, worse, intercepting and reading, a sentence like "the defensores will be there in two days to solve the problem" was exactly the kind of thing which would make people raise their eyebrows, and eventually cause dangerous leaks.

Their handler (GM's mouthpiece) accepted that, but the name was still in use in the upper levels of the Fraternitas.

05-27-2019, 04:57 AM	#15
Michele Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Udine, Italy	Re: Self-designation Terms for Different Monster Hunter Teams in the World In a MH campaign set in Italy in the late 1930s, the Patron organization was the Fraternitas Sancti Leonis (of GURPS Cabal fame), and this parent organization called each monster hunter a "defensor" (plural "defensores", in Latin, defender/s). But the PCs, while aware of this designation, made a conscious choice to use opaque terms. They referred to themselves as "we" or "the group" (later, group 1 and group 2), and to the Fraternitas as "the palace". They thought that overhearing, or, worse, intercepting and reading, a sentence like "the defensores will be there in two days to solve the problem" was exactly the kind of thing which would make people raise their eyebrows, and eventually cause dangerous leaks. Their handler (GM's mouthpiece) accepted that, but the name was still in use in the upper levels of the Fraternitas. __________________ Michele Armellini GURPS Locations: St. George's Cathedral