Just the Xin'an is fine, was going to try to find something fitting for the opposite but if you guys include it I'll just thank you for it@yrsillar if we want to do the Xin'an/Mirdelad thing Jowkeen suggested do we have to vote for that specifically?
Are you sure those names are right? I can't find anything when I search for them in the threads or forge thread.Burning Bright, Burning Swift, IIRC. It's right before the Slugging Moon
Its one of the commissions on Discord.Are you sure those names are right? I can't find anything when I search for them in the threads or forge thread.
Are these currently extant chapters, or ones scheduled for later?
Scheduled for later. The currently extant chapters have an "available" next to them in the commisioned-works channel.Are these currently extant chapters, or ones scheduled for later?
You can get access to certain chapters early if you have a Patreon, it'll connect you to the Discord. Eventually though, those same chapters are released here as side stories. Just not for a while.Are these currently extant chapters, or ones scheduled for later?
Well, here's the suggestions people have had in that area if this helps:Just the Xin'an is fine, was going to try to find something fitting for the opposite but if you guys include it I'll just thank you for it
It's half of a proverb, and I think it'd be nice for the Polar Nations settlement to also be half a proverb about peace.
Mir De Lad, Bol'shoy Klad is the alphabet version of the Russian proverb "Peace and Harmony is Great Treasure"
so Mir De Lad (Mirdelad) might be the settlement name, with the implication being that the settlement is Great Treasure even if it's only for peace and harmony purposes.
of course, many are also going to make Great Treasure from trade and tech-sharing. That's only implied by the name though, which is cool.
Okay, digging into some of my sources for Old Norse (since the Polar Nations are sorta-old norse, and I don't have anything good for old slavic languages) I'd say that the best translation for 'Xin'an' would be something like ný-friðar (pronounced new-fri-thur, with a very short 'i' on the fri). Friðar means peace, love, tranquility, which is the best fit for what we're trying to go for here, I think.
New Peace, or Novomirskiy, would have it's own double meaning in Russian - New Peace and New World. So pun counter keeps going up across languages.
If we are speaking purely about Russian (don't have qualifications to do so about other Slavic languages...) I would expect something like 'Novyi Mir' - there is a bunch of real world villages with that name. Though your variant might work too.
Are you sure those names are right? I can't find anything when I search for them in the threads or forge thread.
Shin-an, but with the 'ah' being like when the doctor tells you to say ahhh.Just to confirm, that's roughly pronounced Shin-on? Or She-an-nan?
Do you think that our latest Domain ability would let our puns transcend language? Can we say 'Zhengui' and communicate all of the different meanings of his name in that single word?
Convincing the world that puns are lowbrow was a heist.It's less secrets and more clever deception imo. Convincing someone that puns are scholarship is a heist.
Message packet burst: Zhengui Wikipedia PageI imagine that it'd communicate whichever meaning she considered most important. If the meanings of "precious" and "real turtle" were both equally important to her, then she'd communicate both at once when she said "Zhengui."
But given that puns rely on the "hey, wait, couldn't that also mean" moment of revelation, this risks turning her into the magical cultivator equivalent of that person too busy laughing at their own joke to finish telling it properly. She is going to have to be so disciplined about this. She will manifest a trait evolution of Unbroken Will just from the exertion of having to keep a straight face the next time she gets a really awful pun.