text: un: gautier

[laidtocrest]

quick poll, what's your favorite animal and on a scale from 1-10 how badly do you want to see one again?

[He's doing a poll in the stupidest way possible, what of it. At least this time there isn't naked people involved (yet).]

Comments

[laidtocrest]

yeah, i get that, i miss my horse too.

[What, it took him a moment to remember what a dragon was, but a dragon is just a wyvern with extra legs, it makes sense.]

[badfeyth]

What did you name it? Your horse.

[laidtocrest]

oh ginger, there's a tradition where i come from to name our mounts after historical or legendary figures but i said screw it and named her the first thing i could think of that wasn't that. sweet thing, i spoil her a lot, she's probably giving people grief without me around now i think about it.

[badfeyth]

So I gather you used her for travel or battle, as opposed to say, your faithful old plowhorse or somesuch. Are you an adventurer of some variety?

I'm always interested in the methods people follow when it comes to naming things. There's almost always some level of significance attached, even if in your case the significance was to fly in the face of tradition rather than follow it.

[laidtocrest]

i don't really adventure, but i'm a knight? so yeah, she's for my job. wouldn't do if i had to walk everywhere.

now i'm thinking about it, most of the stuff i ended up with i didn't bother giving names to, either cause it would break soon enough or it already came with a name. but i'll bite. what do you do for names?

[badfeyth]

Well, Ser Enigma, I'm glad you spoil your horse. You can tell a lot about a knight by the way he treats his mount, in my experience.

Well, let's see. If I'm trying to ransom a name stolen by the fae, I'll try to pick one they find more appealing and offer it to them to trade — they tend to like ones that sound pretty regardless of whether the actual construction makes much sense. Lunablossom, Riverdeep, Starrybeam, things like that.

I've also heard stories of a wizard who used to adopt children in pairs to be his apprentices, and he'd give them names that were anagrams of each other so that he could remember which ones went with which. Einad and Daine, for example.

[laidtocrest]

to be fair to that wizard i've known plenty of parents who've done similar, like they have so many kids they just try to keep their names as simple as possible

but you've been busy, trust me, if anybody's an enigma it's someone like you instead of a goof like me