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Topic: Illyriad Broken Lands Naming Competition!
Posted By: GM Luna
Subject: Illyriad Broken Lands Naming Competition!
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2013 at 19:49
Hello Illyrians!

With the announcement of the Broken Lands expansion, we thought it would be nice to allow players a chance to leave their mark on the new world by helping us name one of the faction hubs. As you may know, faction hubs are permanent structures on the land and are used as the center of activity for NPC factions. Best of luck to all, and thanks for helping us with this project! :)

How to Enter:
Reply to this forum thread with a suggestion for a name for the faction hub described and pictured below. Each person may suggest up to 3 name ideas, but only one winner will be chosen. On February 28 the dev team will review all submissions and choose the best name idea to be used permanently in game. The winning player will receive 200 Prestige as their prize.

The faction hub you will be naming was the center of the now defunct Order of Silver Light. It was the center of the great Sundering that tore the Broken Lands apart. Below is the description from the faction describing the discovery of the location. The hub itself is pictured in the black tower on the left. It is located in the southeast of the Broken Lands on the dead island pictured in the center of the map on the right. 

  

Description:

From the daily reports of Commander Cirian Danorian, deep reconnaissance mission.
Day 12, evening: We are approaching the centre of the Sundering. The mountain before us looks unnatural, black and baked. Our scribe tells us that when the Sundering came, the very rock around here rolled and burned, becoming a tossing sea of fire. The mountain looks like that. It looks like a wave that has been frozen and turned black.
Day 13, afternoon: We have reached the mountain. There is no soil here, nothing can grow on it. It is just brittle, hard rock. It is also warm to the touch.
Day 14, afternoon: The mountain that we saw was not unique. As we marched today we were flanked by more mountains the same, barren and black. There is little wildlife here, and we have seen no hunters or settlers for some time.
Day 15, evening: We have reached the Great Moat. Beyond it we can see a huge island, encircled by it. The island is of this same black stone. We have set out night-lines and fish traps on the Great Moat, but the water itself tastes brackish, so I hold out little hope of fish for breakfast.
Day 16, morning: No fish for breakfast. The Great Moat is dead, as far as we can tell. We discussed finding some trees and building a boat, sailing across to the island beyond. All agreed that it would be possible. Nobody argued for it. From here the island looks barren, and we know that the water is dead, so there will be no food. None of us have heard of any expedition returning from the island. Rumours tell of ancient magics plaguing the land, and unnatural armies that still serve lost masters. We have no need to go there just to find out what kills all who attempt it.
Day 16, noon: We followed the coast of the Great Moat for the morning, and will now turn away from the island. Somewhere on there, legend says, the greatest stronghold of the Order of the Silver Light still stands. From there they unleashed the Sundering. And when the stones burned and the mountains rolled like waves, the tower stood untouched, enduring through it all. So the legend says. We are content to leave that legend untested, and we will move on.



Details: Winner will be notified via private message on the forums or via email address to which the winning forum account is registered. You must have a valid Illyriad forum account to enter to win. Only one entry (with up to 3 name ideas) per person per forum account. Prizes provided by Illyriad Games, Ltd. All entries must respect  http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/code-of-conduct-rules-updated-102911_topic31.html" rel="nofollow - Illyriad forum rules . Entries can be removed or disqualified if they do not follow the forum rules. An active Illyriad game account is required to receive Prestige prize. No substitution for the prize listed will be given. No further compensation will be given to the winning player for use of their name suggestion. Winners must respond within 7 days of notification in order to receive prize. By posting a name as an entry you give Illyriad Games, Ltd. permission to re-use and re-post the content as needed. Entries close end of day 2/27/2013.


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GM Luna | Illyriad Community Manager | community@illyriad.co.uk




Replies:
Posted By: Rorgash
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:19
Name "demand": The Black Skull Horde!

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Posted By: abstractdream
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:28
The Verboo

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Bonfyr Verboo


Posted By: Elmindra
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:34
Moonholme

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Posted By: bansisdead
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:42
I agree with Rorgash, Black Skull Horde, WAAARGH!!!

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Posted By: Jane DarkMagic
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:42
The Bleak Isle


Posted By: dmar
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:45
The Sunderspire

Skyfire Isle

The Silent Bastion


Posted By: Sirius
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:53
Arænor.

Krakenhold.

The Height of Divide.


Posted By: Elf Dragon
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:55
Skyfall :P


Posted By: Xaine
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:56
The Black Skull Horde!


Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:58
Edit: My 3 official entries:

- Ruins of Castamere 
Sundered Spire
- Cursed Citadel


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Posted By: Bonaparta
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 18:58
1) Black Skull Horde

2) Black Skull pirate orcanisation 

3) Black Skull Orcas 



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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:00
Just fyi, (I'm sure you are at least partially joking by suggesting your alliance name) if several people suggest the same thing, and if we were to choose it, only the first person to suggest it would win the prize. So please, suggest original names. Get creative. ;) Thanks.

Luna


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Posted By: Rorgash
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:02
Hey now Luna, we are fully serious, just as we are seriously green. and having build up our expeditionary party to our current size here, well its time for us to start returning home and building up there.

(but how can we do this if our faction hub is missing?)


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Posted By: alta63
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:03
Exanimus
 
Venenatus


Posted By: Daufer
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:04
(1) Ebonspire

(2) Fel-Flame Tower

(3) The Tarnished Tower... tarnished silver being black, as this picture shows


Posted By: Darpandas
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:05
THE SILVERTOME
BLACKTOME

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TongueTongueTongue


Posted By: Joey Bagadonuts
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:05
Black Skull Horde, WAAARGH!!!


Posted By: Gartak
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:10
Ater argentum

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Posted By: Progressor
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:16
Silver Beacon

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Posted By: Gartak
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:19
Tenebris

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Posted By: Beecks
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:20
"Llyorn the unpronounceable fortress"

/end thread Wink


Posted By: bansisdead
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:24
Niger Calvaria Críminum

Creative?


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Posted By: Garbage
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:25
The Black Skull Horde, of course.




Posted By: Tordenkaffen
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:27
Kangax Drugis
- Cause it sounds cool!

Nightfall Grasp (or; "Teneo Nocte" - Latin for "I grasp the night")
- Cause the building resembles a reaching gauntlet grasping a black orb.

Embers Reach
- Again an attempt to couple the building to the background story from a bystanders viewpoint.





Posted By: EvilKatia
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:30
The Black Sorcerers (known before the sundering as The Magician Order of the Silver Light.)

One can only wonder how magician of the light got twisted corrupt and turne to unleash the horror of the sundering on the world...


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Posted By: robbrit
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:37
The Black Skull Tower!


Posted By: Rorgash
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:38
oh and Luna , I want my prize to be a faction hub named The Black Skull Horde so that we have a place to belong in the old world

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Posted By: demdigs
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 19:43
The desolate tower
tower of dispare
Tower of lost hope


Posted By: Grego
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:06
Nokkra

Baba Kuka

Ravuk


Posted By: Aurordan
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:09
Hand of Folly (The spires on the tower look like fingers reaching for that orb thing)
Blightspire
Epicenter 


Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:09
Sparky Sparky Doom Doom tower. 

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Posted By: Miradamian
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:24
1. Captus Vespertilionem

2. Alchemy Tower

3. Illyriad Momentum

Star


Posted By: Nokigon
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:41
The Sundered Vale
 


Posted By: Auraya
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 20:57
Has anyone read "Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came," by Robert Browning? It came to mind after reading the entry.. 'The Dark Tower' seems fairly appropriate although admittedly not very original. 

That or maybe ' Argyria ' which is a disease caused by silver being absorbed into the circulatory system.


Posted By: Scorpiain
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:07
Why not call it Isengard? Its clearly modelled off it...

Anyway, Serious suggestions:

Bouleversement  (1. A violent uproar; a tumult. 2. A reversal.)




Posted By: abstractdream
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:11
Originally posted by geofrey geofrey wrote:

Sparky Sparky Doom Doom tower. 

So, if you don't pick mine...then this..HILARIOUS!

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Posted By: Widdershins
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:24
black skull horde WAAARGH


Posted By: Lucre
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:28
My suggestions:
The Broken Spire
Ordo of Infractus Lux Lucis (Order of Broken Light)
Ianus Offensus (Arcane Collider)


Posted By: Hoko
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:30
1. Luthedel

2. Kredik Shaw

3. Sorai Nobel


Thank you for your consideration,
Hoko

I must say of my own three, I am most fond of "Kredik Shaw". :)


Posted By: Darkwords
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:32
Sepulcher of Silver Light

Desolate Tower

Spire of Lament  ;)


Posted By: Loud Whispers
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:59
1. Ardeus
2. Olkygya
3. Belviodor


Posted By: Sjin_the_destroyer
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 21:59
The "Hidden Poison"
or "Night-fall wolves"


Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 22:11
Herschel's Farm

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Posted By: scaramouche
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 22:19
here's my off the cuff names:
 
 
Citadel of lost souls
 
Arcis Dolor ......latin name for Citadel of misery/pain
 
Darkus Orbus
 
 


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Posted By: Sodapop
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 22:32
1 .Order of the Blackstar

2. The Shadow Rising

3. Reavers (The optional)





Posted By: Talonas
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 22:49
Castle Rock

Basalt Isle

Corrupted Spire


Posted By: Llyr
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:05
Dubh Túr

Caer Llwdd

Xycanthros


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Posted By: Siren418
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:06
1) Synergy of the Silver Light Sundering
2) Silver Light Solitary
3) Shroud of the Sundering




Lol @ Geofrey's "Herschel's Farm" 


Posted By: Beemo
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:09
black skull horde


Posted By: belargyle
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:15
Uniattachie

or

Silvarians


Posted By: Aral
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:22
1:  Ditum Cælum
2:  Virtium
3:  The Dawnspire

The first two are the result of ceaseless collaboration with a colleague of mine whom I hold in high regard... Dr. Google translate (But they sound cool!!!)


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Posted By: Sliveen
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:32
Refuge of the Dead {ReForged}

Circlet of the Undead {O}

Durc's Citadel of Diplomacy {DCD}


Posted By: O Cavaleiro Verde
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:44
My suggestions:

Blackstone Sea

DeVoid

Tartarus


Posted By: DeathDealer89
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2013 at 23:56
Atlantean Citadel

Shadow of Light

Port of Death


Posted By: Hoggle
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 00:20
1. Necrosis
2. Oblivion
3. Stygia


Posted By: Ooola
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 00:50
Citadel Argento -- argento, latin for silver

Glimnoir Flume  -- glimmering + noir (dark)  flume = conduit   I'm imagining the Order gathered here to combine their powers then channeled their combined power through the building to cause the great Sundering.

Noesis Orb -- from noetic, metaphysics






Posted By: twilights
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 00:57
TWILIGHTS HUNTING GROUNDS....... grins


Posted By: framadorv
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 01:00
Black Skull Horde

The Undead Empire

BlackLion Legion


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Posted By: ickyfritz
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 01:00
Mages of the Fevered Obelisk
Stye of the Sundering
Barons of the Barren

FritzHugh


Posted By: Captain Cannabis
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 02:12
Ferendil :D 


Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 04:38
Light's End
Spire of Desolation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis" rel="nofollow - Apocynthion


Posted By: Epidemic
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 04:40
Deathspire
 
Pillar of Judgement
 
Refuge of Lost Hope


Posted By: Elawise
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 05:08
The forbidden spire

Hellsgate 

Rynight land of the ancients


Posted By: Lyken
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 05:24
Gloamlight Tor?



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Posted By: mrsilentnight
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 05:57
1. Silver Peak

2. Obsidian (which is a volcanic glass, usually black in color, also used in ancient times as arrow heads)

3. Shadows Peak



Posted By: HATHALDIR
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 06:12
1 The Broken Heart

2 The Burnt Heart

3 The Black Heart


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Posted By: Emperor Davinius
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 06:48
1.Schismstone

2.Shatterspire

3.Skysunder



Posted By: MrHyde
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 06:50
The End
The Fallen
Tarkus


Posted By: Tatharion
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 08:03
1/ Sunstrider Haven

2/ The Summoning Stone (or Ring) 

3/ The Landing


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Posted By: mohit9006
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:26
1. The Shining Shadow

2. Path Makers


Posted By: Auraya
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:31
My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 


Posted By: Hora
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:40
As it was the center of the sundering...

1. Dark Epicentre

2. Origin of Doom

If looking for the original name... before the Sundering...

3. Citadel of (silver) Light     (would make a nice counterpart nowerdays Wink)


Posted By: mohit9006
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:41
3. The Un-Holy Saints

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Posted By: Vibs
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:42
Originally posted by Auraya Auraya wrote:

My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 

That's a pretty good idea. I'd second this.


Posted By: Kingpete
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:48
Originally posted by Auraya Auraya wrote:

My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 

+1 This is a good idea.


Posted By: Halithore
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 10:52
Originally posted by Auraya Auraya wrote:

My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 

+1, Would be a nice gesture.


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Posted By: Jolin
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 11:21
The Black Skull Horde!


Posted By: Mahaut
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 11:22
Darkhaven Spire

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Posted By: AZADICAN
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 11:59

Barad-dûr 


Tartarus


Niflheim



Posted By: stgredneck
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 11:59
i say  name in honor of  Durc  he would like that and he did alot for everyone. and i thionk he deserves it 


Posted By: Spheniscidae
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 12:34
Lux Aeterna

"From this accursed place, the Order of the Silver Light desired to first destroy the known world, then remake it into their own eternal paradise.

They succeeded in the first. Some say that from here, they still seek to accomplish the second."


Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 14:10
Ryelle Archipellago

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Posted By: geofrey
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 14:40
Sundering Shade

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Posted By: jeffmc
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 15:15
Originally posted by Auraya Auraya wrote:

My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 
 
+1  Awesome idea, plus the name sounds good.


Posted By: scaramouche
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 16:13
Originally posted by Hoggle Hoggle wrote:

1. Necrosis
2. Oblivion
3. Stygia
Nooooooooo....one of my cities is called stygia..its a nice warm and friendly place, nothing like that black monstrocity.

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Posted By: scaramouche
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 16:14
Originally posted by stgredneck stgredneck wrote:

i say  name in honor of  Durc  he would like that and he did alot for everyone. and i thionk he deserves it 
erm...Durc was a " she" btw...

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Posted By: dave83
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 16:29
Karnak


Posted By: Jack Sheridan
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 16:44
The Defiled Isle

Spire Of The Uncanny

The Blackened Silver Bastion


Posted By: Anjire
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 17:01
1) Mallei Vocanti  (I'll try my hand at latin after more than 20 years)

2) Tolthodring


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Posted By: Yeesha D'ni
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 17:12
I don't like the idea of an isle named after a player, no matter how kind she was. Death is a part of life, not the funniest, but it is. No reason to mystify that or to glorify a person (especially in an online game). I hope, Durc was more then a nerdy woman, no reason in my point of view to set her an eternal virtual monument in a "game" to constantly invoke the spirit of a person, who tragically faded away. In respect of how wonderful Durc was or seemed to be (as we play an online game on a virtual social platform, which opens huge space for projection): "Let the dead bury the dead", life goes on. Hope this Durc - mania would stop once. Just to let her rest in peace, as everyone of us deserves it once.
This is not to hurt anyones honest grief, but you shouldn't abuse an online game for coping. Wish you would spread life instead and everything, that makes it worth living and Illyriad worth playing.

And back to topic and my constructive contribution:
Rayalan, Rokashin, Suyamar


Posted By: Rorgash
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 17:57
see, Yeesha wants it to be named The Black Skull Horde

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Posted By: GM Luna
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:04
Stay on topic. This thread is for contest entries only. Thank you.

Luna


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Posted By: Rorgash
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:13
i thought it had already been decided, what else could you name it if not The Black Skull Horde?

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Posted By: Mikia
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:27
1. Parhelion
2. Parelion
3. Parhelia


Posted By: Nesse
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:36
Darklight beacon
Nightsilver needle
The Void


Posted By: Thes Hunter
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:37
So many great entries so far! I don't know if I can even come close, but here are my couple suggestions for this intimidating structure in a hard dead land, that may not be as evil as it seems.

1) Tinras Morgral
2) Urk'Gorr
3) Rakgerrok




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Posted By: Nokigon
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 18:55
And my second and third entries....
 
2) Retorta Cacumina (Latin for Twisted Peaks)
 
3) Rannast Horriblis (Invented)


Posted By: Casombra
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 22:00
Originally posted by Auraya Auraya wrote:

My 3rd suggestion.. 

Durcamroth - after Durc and Amroth. It would be nice to immortalise them. 

I don't want any prestige if this wins, the name is reward enough. 


I too vote for this! What a wonderful idea! RIP Durc and Amroth you will always be remembered in our hearts!


Posted By: yubnub son of Hubnub
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2013 at 23:03
Hi Luna

My three suggestions are as follows:

1.Moatsedge
2.Blacklake
3. Cor Darei

Yubnub Smile



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