Typically the places I've lived have garnered purely-functional descriptive names. Apartment Six, The Hellhole, LisaNeil's. (I referred to Adam et al's large apartment with too many footstools as The Ottoman Empire but I don't know that that ever caught on.)
And this obviously isn't The Condo, that's out in Grandview/Woodland and I've not lived there for well over three years.
Typically names for critters and devices come from my reading. The Crawling Chaos That Is Nyarlathotep and Kai Wren, Godslayer And Lord Demon. Keishi Mirabara Hamster, who like her namesake in The Fortunate Fall lived in a series of tubes. Laptops Tiresias and Taranis and Pelorios and now Patrise.
And right now I am reading Aspects.
As much as I might wish otherwise, this is not Strange House, nor am I Strange (merely strange, ha ha). It can be no more than a very temporary refuge for anyone else.
But ...
I doubt I would like Varic, Coron of Corvaric, but I do respect him, and admire him, and to some extent understand him. He doesn't entirely know himself, of course, though he certainly thinks he does. He certainly doesn't know other people as well as he thinks. Or maybe he does and he just doesn't quite know how to use that knowledge.
(I've been pronouncing it accented second syllable, corVARRic, like Varic with 'cor' on the front. But perhaps it's meant to be accented first syllable, CORvuric. Hm.)
(Quercian isn't Latin, any more than Lystourel is nineteenth-century London or long-gone Lord Falchion is Arthur, and so I am saved from having to interpret "cor varic" as "a difficult heart to land in." However apropos it may be for Varic himself.)
And this obviously isn't The Condo, that's out in Grandview/Woodland and I've not lived there for well over three years.
Typically names for critters and devices come from my reading. The Crawling Chaos That Is Nyarlathotep and Kai Wren, Godslayer And Lord Demon. Keishi Mirabara Hamster, who like her namesake in The Fortunate Fall lived in a series of tubes. Laptops Tiresias and Taranis and Pelorios and now Patrise.
And right now I am reading Aspects.
As much as I might wish otherwise, this is not Strange House, nor am I Strange (merely strange, ha ha). It can be no more than a very temporary refuge for anyone else.
But ...
I doubt I would like Varic, Coron of Corvaric, but I do respect him, and admire him, and to some extent understand him. He doesn't entirely know himself, of course, though he certainly thinks he does. He certainly doesn't know other people as well as he thinks. Or maybe he does and he just doesn't quite know how to use that knowledge.
"What does 'Varic' mean?" she said.Corvaric House? Corvaric Manor feels far too grand, except for those archways in the kitchen. Maybe just Corvaric.
"'A difficult place to land.' My home country has a very inhospitable coast."
--JMF, Aspects
(I've been pronouncing it accented second syllable, corVARRic, like Varic with 'cor' on the front. But perhaps it's meant to be accented first syllable, CORvuric. Hm.)
(Quercian isn't Latin, any more than Lystourel is nineteenth-century London or long-gone Lord Falchion is Arthur, and so I am saved from having to interpret "cor varic" as "a difficult heart to land in." However apropos it may be for Varic himself.)