Vote for this Beastman Wizards Name

[WingsofMemory]

You're not going to get many votes here; the forum is fairly inactive these days, and you're asking for opinions about something that is, for most people right now at least, fairly inconsequential. Don't mean to be rude, just trying to set reasonable expectations here.

As for the name, I'm fairly indifferent. If you really insisted, I'd probably go with Baphomet?

Yeah I know. I also posted the link to this in Hadriex discord, so hopefully I can pull some people from there. It may be inconsequential, but that doesn't mean that it can't be fun!

You should press the button and vote for it at the top! That way the forum is doing the brainwork of keeping track of who voted for what instead of me, I don't have much brain to work with here lol.

[WingsofMemory]

Asmodeus and Baphomet are Jewish/Christian demon lords. Enkidu and Marduk are Mesopotamian. With such names you are pulling in classical planet Earth mythology, which is okay if it is the start of a theme. But on their own, these names are out of place.

I used them specifically to make them in place.

Merlin, Horus, Freya, Kali. 1/3 of the wizards in Master of Magic are named after gods and mythological beings.

As for heroes some of them are even more explicitly "earth mythology."

B'shan is a Dervish, which is a type of medieval muslim, that I believe is still around today. If I recall correctly dervishes forsake worldly possessions and must live off of charity, and that they attempt to make themselves immune to the bite of iron of fire through faith. The latter is weirdly in common with berserkers of nordic mythology/history. There are druids and such but those are often generic fantasy classes so they don't really strike me as drawing from earth things, however other than in MoM I've never seen the term "dervish" used in fantasy stuff. Maybe I've not seen enough of it I suppose.

Roland the Paladin is based off of Roland the Paladin, who served charlemagne.

Morgana the Witch is another name for Morgan le Fey, the sorceress from the king arthur myths (who usually is stated to be his sister)

I could've just used any names that I wanted for the heck of it, I could've called the Klackon wizard that I did "Greg", but I called it Ixitixl specifically to make it fit in with the design choices of MoM. In the MoO1 manual, Ixitixl is the klackon emperor in a diplomacy screenshot. Therefore, it's the most "canon" name for a klackon leader as we have.

   

Just like the Draconian is named Sss'ra, which is one of the default leader names for Sakkra leaders in MoO1.

My problem is usually overthinking things, not underthinking them lol.

If I can figure out how to add more options to the poll, then I am happy to take more suggestions, I suck at naming things, so I trust you guys to be able to come up with better stuff than me.

Oh, also the last two names in the poll are Celtic gods. So they are all from earth mythology.

[WingsofMemory]

I am all for planet earth mythology. 



Here is another one: Baal

Yeah, Baal is a good one. Do you know how to add more options to a pre-existing poll? Also with Lagi stating that he liked Asmodeus, it'll be a 3-way tie if he sees the poll here lol.

Next Hadriex stream I catch I'll try and wrangle more people. Maybe I can guilt-trip one of my favourite stream-bros Enterprise-H into making an account here and voting lol. Maybe I can guilt trip Hadriex himself into voting! Maybe Buster as well, I'll just bring up the time he accidentally put me in a 15 minute time out! : P

[RefSteel]

Do you know how to add more options to a pre-existing poll?

The forum doesn't allow any changes to polls once they've been created (or maybe it's once they've received a vote?) - presumably to prevent poll-makers from changing what responders said. E.g.

Which do you love the most?
a) Cake
b) Pie

c) Your family

(At least I assume this is the reason.)

If it's important, you can always make another thread with a new poll - but then people will make suggestions in that thread and...

[WingsofMemory]

Do you know how to add more options to a pre-existing poll?

The forum doesn't allow any changes to polls once they've been created (or maybe it's once they've received a vote?) - presumably to prevent poll-makers from changing what responders said.  E.g.

Which do you love the most?
a) Cake
b) Pie

c) Your family

(At least I assume this is the reason.)

If it's important, you can always make another thread with a new poll - but then people will make suggestions in that thread and...

Ooooh, okay that makes sense. Fair enough, as it is I guess it's just going to be between the ones I have listed. Thank you very much!

Fancy seeing you here in the MoM section instead of the the MoO section!

What's funny is that I grew up with MoO. MoO1 was the first computer/video game that I ever beat, when I was like 7. I used to be able to play the game on impossible as a kid, but I can't do it anymore lol. I never heard of MoM until I was already a teenager/young adult, maybe 19 or something? I have tons and tons of graphics I've been modding for MoM over the past couple of years, that I am slowly getting ready to unleash, but honestly I've always wanted to mod MoO1. But, it's not mod friendly and I'm too dumb. Caster of Magic for Windows is mod friendly.

Well, thanks for the info, and the vote! Have a good one dude!

[Anskiy]

...however other than in MoM I've never seen the term "dervish" used in fantasy stuff. Maybe I've not seen enough of it I suppose.

Dervishes are actually decently common in fantasy fiction, they just aren't as popular as archetypes derived from European or Christian mythology.

For example: https://mana.fandom.com/wiki/Dervish

[WingsofMemory]

Dervishes are actually decently common in fantasy fiction, they just aren't as popular as archetypes derived from European or Christian mythology.

For example: https://mana.fandom.com/wiki/Dervish

Oh, interesting. Thank you. It makes sense for them to be a fantasy archetype. Warriors monks that have a vow of poverty, do crazy dances, and train themselves to resist pain and fire, seems right up a fantasy adventures alley for a type of character in it. I've just never seen it.