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Kumomoto
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Joined: 19 Oct 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2224 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 00:40 |
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Hmmm. Methinks SC's explanation doth explain too much...
After some sleuthing, I came up with, what I think, was the origin of the name...
We all know that SC is a history buff. So... "El" was a very old Canaanite word for a god, commonly represented by bulls. Now what are bulls well known for?
and Gea... well it took me a while, but I think I pegged it!
Perhaps Mr. SC was feeling proverbially "bullish" about Gea (I mean, cmon, she won America's first ever Ms. National Fitness Championship in 1986!):
http://www.geajohnson.com/spokesperson.asp
(or maybe I'm wrong... has been known to happen on rare occasions...) ;)
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Mandarins31
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Joined: 05 Jun 2010 Status: Offline Points: 418 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 00:49 |
Can't wait to see the result!
Just be aware that one day, if Illyriad is again getting too crowd, instead of making new continents, just allow people to have a subaquatical life :)
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Createure
Postmaster General
Joined: 07 Apr 2010 Location: uk Status: Offline Points: 1191 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 04:34 |
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*burp*
I enjoy ingesting brandnewness in all its various guises.
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Tinuviel's Voice
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Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Status: Offline Points: 37 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 08:30 |
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Pangea: Pan (entire, whole, everything) + Gaia (Earth, land)
So Pan-gea=One Earth/Land
Elgea: El (hELios, the Sun) + Gaia (Earth, land)
So El-gea=Earth/Land of the Sun
Hope it helps!
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Celebcalen
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Joined: 18 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 288 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 16:01 |
 uhmm....I have an idea....
Why not have GMLuna pose another exciting community initiative by opening a thread calling on the community to suggest a suitable name for the server taking into account ;
1. meaning of the name;
2. It relevance to The Illyriad Codex
The GM's can decide on and announce the winner and then present a prize
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Kumomoto
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Joined: 19 Oct 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2224 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:08 |
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Ummm, because it already has a name?
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Celebcalen
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Joined: 18 May 2011 Status: Offline Points: 288 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:50 |
Kumomoto wrote:
Ummm, because it already has a name? |
Since it is early days and this is a major development in the course of the game I was just suggesting that it might be an idea to throw it out to the community as a demonstration of inclusion. The dev team are always on the look out for the innovative involvement of players in all aspects of development. I thought that this might be an ideal opportunity to bring us all closer together for the greater good.
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supposing someone came up with the suggestion of Kumotonia - I bet that would make you change your mind
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Kumomoto
Postmaster General
Joined: 19 Oct 2009 Status: Offline Points: 2224 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 17:52 |
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Well... changing it to Kumotonia would be kind of catchy ;), but I suspect that if they are doing a production environment migration tonight, in my experience, they probably have been prepping for weeks and have a ton of stuff already set up with this name... but maybe not?
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GM Luna
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Community Manager
Joined: 22 Oct 2011 Location: Illyriad Status: Offline Points: 2042 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 18:03 |
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Renaming Elgea is probably not something that will happen right now. But having players involved in naming something in the future could be a lot of fun. Great idea!
Luna
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GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk
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shadow
Wordsmith
Joined: 24 Jan 2011 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 126 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2011 at 19:19 |
AWSOME!
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