What will your Mercenary Unit`s name be?
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Evelyn's Eviscerators ("Where the Scythe meets the Meat")
Roland's Repentors ("Only through Confession, can you be absolved")
Sander's Salvagers ("We make it work")
Sven's Students ("A sound mind in a sound BattleMech")
Grey's Brotherhood ("All are welcome, for there is no black and white")
Knights of the Void ("Always on the move")
Boars of Boreas ("We do not shy the mud")
Olympus Incorporated ("Gods are us")
Order of the Grave ("Death is to be embraced")
Acolytes of Ergo ("Our minds act")
Ron's Nix Guards -RNG and worked the Linux in there. I can't think of something better suiting the N, but you could swap it with anything. Normal Guards, Neptunian Guard, Naval Guard, etc.
My first time through the game will almost certainly have me use a name related to wolves in one way or another... but that could change. I have also been very partial to the word "frost" over the past several years as well, amongst a lot of other words to... so that might end up showing up to... but who knows really... XD
So even though I have ideas for names, and even some very specific and "finished" names as well... I don't really have a final name right now to share, because what I finally name things will always happend around the time I create that thing, in the moment of creation of the thing.
So as such I could right here and now say that I will name my merc unit "The Grim Wolves"... refering to/based on the potentual player character name that I might use for "me" in the game being "Grimm Wulf" (which is my username over on BattleTechs homepage, and the name I also have on the MWO forum)... or maybe "The Frost Wolves"... or some other thing as well. But... I am not saying that this will be my names in BT, because it might change compleatly by the time I am sitting there infront of the game making my choice of name for all the different things. My merc units name might compleatly change based on what my player characters name is after all as well... so there are many different layers to it for me, to such a degree that I just don't know right now what it will end up being in the end. XD
A huge aspect of why it can change so very drasticly for me is based on everything from what just feels right at the moment, to something as small as that I find that I really like one particular icon for when I create my merc units insignia, which then might compleatly change my concept and ideas about the merc unit and it's name and what not... it might even compleatly change what I name my player character as well. Because it is very importent to me that the name I use for something HAS TO fit perfectly in my mind... so if it does not "sound right" to me at the time, then I keep tampering with the name until it is right, no matter how much time that ends up taking in the end. I tend to be very spontanious, random and sporadic when it comes to things like this. XD
So even though I have ideas for names, and even some very specific and "finished" names as well... I don't really have a final name right now to share, because what I finally name things will always happend around the time I create that thing, in the moment of creation of the thing.
So as such I could right here and now say that I will name my merc unit "The Grim Wolves"... refering to/based on the potentual player character name that I might use for "me" in the game being "Grimm Wulf" (which is my username over on BattleTechs homepage, and the name I also have on the MWO forum)... or maybe "The Frost Wolves"... or some other thing as well. But... I am not saying that this will be my names in BT, because it might change compleatly by the time I am sitting there infront of the game making my choice of name for all the different things. My merc units name might compleatly change based on what my player characters name is after all as well... so there are many different layers to it for me, to such a degree that I just don't know right now what it will end up being in the end. XD
A huge aspect of why it can change so very drasticly for me is based on everything from what just feels right at the moment, to something as small as that I find that I really like one particular icon for when I create my merc units insignia, which then might compleatly change my concept and ideas about the merc unit and it's name and what not... it might even compleatly change what I name my player character as well. Because it is very importent to me that the name I use for something HAS TO fit perfectly in my mind... so if it does not "sound right" to me at the time, then I keep tampering with the name until it is right, no matter how much time that ends up taking in the end. I tend to be very spontanious, random and sporadic when it comes to things like this. XD
Something to consider, maybe translate your name into another language? Ie German for units from Lyran space, Japanese for Kurita Robin (or Swedish for Rasalhague Renegades). For instance I bet the above post's Frost Wolves would be badass in German or any of the Scandinavian languages.
I'm mulling over trying to do so with mine. But I doubt I could preserve the wordplay of Daybreakers ('daybreak' and O'Days people who break things) in Irish or Scots Gaelic.
I'm mulling over trying to do so with mine. But I doubt I could preserve the wordplay of Daybreakers ('daybreak' and O'Days people who break things) in Irish or Scots Gaelic.
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Oh don't worry about that... these are things I have already considered, and will consider in the future... and seeing as I am Swedish, and Swedish being my main language (even though I probably use more english then I do Swedish on a daily basis, atleast in text form and almost everything I watch and play), I already consider maybe using the Swedish versions of names as well.
I don't realy like using the Swedish word for "Grim", "Bister", because it does not give me the same thoughts and ideas in my head as Grim does... and it does not "look" cool either. XD But for "The Frost Wolves" I have already considered the Swedish version of it, which would be "Frostvargarna" (yes, in Swedish we have a tendency to put words together like this, and not have them seperate like is so common in English... every element that is included in "The Frost Wolves" (the animal it's self, the plural, and that it is a specific group of those animals (so the "the" in the name)), is all included in that one single word of "Frostvargarna").
But I have also considered using an alternate Swedish word for wolves that we sometimes use in Sweden, the word of "Ulv"... so "Frostulvarna".
Ulv is an older swedish word for "varg" (Varg of course being the base word for a wolf in swedish), and is not as commonly used anymore when refering to wolves in general. It comes from the old norse word for wolf, which was "ulfr". And to me, the word "Ulv" has a much more... sinister tone to it almost though. When I say "varg" I see your average normal wolf in my mind... but when I say "Ulv", the wolves I see in my mind is much larger, and much more dangerous and vicious looking... not all that uncommon that I see them as being almost black as well (the thought of a black wolf is so much cooler to me then your standard coloured wolves). Actually... in roleplay terms, I guess you could say that the image I have of an "Ulv" in my head might be what most english speaking roleplayers think of when they head the name "dire wolf". This is of course not actually what an "Ulv" is, it's just a normal wolf, but to me the image I get from that word is something bigger and more dangerous then a normal wolf. I think it is partly due to the most common usage of "ulv" in swedish today. The swedish word for a "Werewolf" is not "Varvarg", it's "Varulv", and as such that does sort of siphon over some of the werewolves traits to "ulv" I guess, atleast the big and vicous and almnost evil and and what not parts. XD
Ulf, is also a pretty common name in Sweden... and that like "Ulv" did also come from the old norse word of "ulfr".
Actually... that is why my name on the MWO forum, and then later on the BattleTech forum, is "Grimm Wulf"... I sort of took a lot of different aspect of things from different languages and things and spun together "Grimm Wulf". Grimm refering both to the word "Grim" it's self, and to the Brothers Grimm and the Grimms' Fairy Tales (which does include a fair amount of wolves). As for Wulf... that's just a mix of using the W from the English and German "Wolf", and using the "ulf" part from the old norse word of "ulfr", and the fact that Ulf is a somewhat common swedish name as well.
I have though considered, and sometimes do use, the name "Grym Wulf" as well... where Wulf is for the same reason as mentioned above... but where "Grym" is taken directly from the Swedish word "Grym". Partly because it looks simmilar to "Grim"... but mostly because of what "Grym" actually means (which is in my mind "cooler" then what Grim means). "Grym" in Swedish mainly means "Cruel", but can also mean "Savage", "Vicious", "Ferocious", "Fierce", "Fell", "Atrocious", "Felon" (not in the sence of a criminal, but something being cruel or wicked). But "Grym" does also have another meaning, where it is used as slang... where it can mean sort of "cool" or "awesome" or other such good things... it's sort of how the english word "Wicked" can mean something good, or other words which actually means something bad but can have an opposit meaning in slang. XD
Anyway... yeah... I do consider other languages, especially Swedish (as long as the Swedish words actually "sounds" or "looks" cool to me)... as I said in my previous post, I spend a lot of time thining about names, and I "need" them to be almost perfect for what ever it is. XD
Reading this, I just realized why Tolkien called his giant evil wolves Wargs. I'm guessing Varg or something like it was at one point an Old English (or earlier) name for wolves. And to my Anglophone ears, it sounds dangerous and mysterious.
Black Knights Legion?
IDK yet lol. This game takes place a long time before my little made up world is actually in the world. Ill still have to base my unit off my KRL.....
IDK yet lol. This game takes place a long time before my little made up world is actually in the world. Ill still have to base my unit off my KRL.....
Warg does indeed come from varg, but it predates Tolkien by a few centuries
Our Nordic 'visitors' brought the word varg, which became corrupted to warg. No points for guessing where wolf comes from
When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."
Cynwulf Og's Gallowglas
CO- Cynwulf Og Mac Dumhnaill (Born on the island of Highland on the planet Stewart within the free worlds league. Served three tours with the Juggernaut a mech regiment within the Stewart Dragoons. Was awarded several awards and decorations after the campaign on Asellus Borealis by Janos Marik himself. Cynwulf's last tour with the juggernaut ended on the world of Payvand a periphery world on 3022. In part his decision to not re-enlist was bad news from home.) He left Stewart on december 3rd with a payed for leopard dropship and 4 mechs. Just hours after the massacre of Ewen Mac Dubghaill and his extended family on highland. Cynwulf is currently a person of interest by the Stewart authorities in the matter.
CO- Cynwulf Og Mac Dumhnaill (Born on the island of Highland on the planet Stewart within the free worlds league. Served three tours with the Juggernaut a mech regiment within the Stewart Dragoons. Was awarded several awards and decorations after the campaign on Asellus Borealis by Janos Marik himself. Cynwulf's last tour with the juggernaut ended on the world of Payvand a periphery world on 3022. In part his decision to not re-enlist was bad news from home.) He left Stewart on december 3rd with a payed for leopard dropship and 4 mechs. Just hours after the massacre of Ewen Mac Dubghaill and his extended family on highland. Cynwulf is currently a person of interest by the Stewart authorities in the matter.
Varg, Wolf (or the old english word of Wulf, which I just now noticed existed... XD ), Ulv, Ulfr, Warg, etc, all seem to come from the same place... that of the reconstructed Proto-Germanic word of "*wulfaz" (Proto-Germanic as in befor it split up into three different branches, that of North Germanic (Scandinavian), West Germanic (English, German, French, etc), and East Germanic (which is a dead language branch)).Warg does indeed come from varg, but it predates Tolkien by a few centuries
Our Nordic 'visitors' brought the word varg, which became corrupted to warg. No points for guessing where wolf comes from
And even that word... "*wulfaz"... comes from an even older reconstructed word thought to have existed in the "Proto-Indo-European language" (so befor things like Proto-Germanic and Proto-Italic (where Latin comes from), and a whole bunch of other "Proto-something" languages in and around the European'ish area (it coloures outside of the lines XD )), that of the word "wĺ̥kʷos"... which I am not even going to try to imagin what it might have actually sounded like (even though I am thinking of how I would pronounce "wlkwos")... since I have no clue what the meaning of some of those extra bits and pieces one some letters, and smaller and raised up letters and what not, would be and mean for the letter. XD
And apperantly... the latin word "Lupus", is also in the end related to that proto-into-european word of "wĺ̥kʷos", through something called "Metathesis" ("Methathesis is the rearranging of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence."), so yeah... it all seems to be interconnected there. XD
Since early Tabletop matches, i have made a RPG backstory made for my company of ragged mercs!
Since im portuguese, i have made the planet Poznan (62.54 : -81.21) the planet where this team was formed. Poznan has 7 continents, which one is Galicia, the continent where portuguese refugees first setled, the other continents where setled by polish and spanish.
Poznan became part of Liao, wich made things alot worse due to the chinese influx. As such, some militias and rebelians were formed. There comes the unit that will be the future of the merc company... 1st Galician Lancers, in 3009. Eventually, the militias and rebelions were stomped on. Not until the 4th succecion war, would Poznan be fred by the Davion forces.
But what remained of the 1st Galician Lancers? Those few people decided to raise up a merc company!
Spade's Hunters Company
In honor of Miguel "Spadejack" Paiva, a mid sargent on the Lancers and self taught mechwarrior who survived the rebelion. He took lead and with a few others, they formed the Hunters, as a form to hit cappelans back and getting paid on the process!
Since im portuguese, i have made the planet Poznan (62.54 : -81.21) the planet where this team was formed. Poznan has 7 continents, which one is Galicia, the continent where portuguese refugees first setled, the other continents where setled by polish and spanish.
Poznan became part of Liao, wich made things alot worse due to the chinese influx. As such, some militias and rebelians were formed. There comes the unit that will be the future of the merc company... 1st Galician Lancers, in 3009. Eventually, the militias and rebelions were stomped on. Not until the 4th succecion war, would Poznan be fred by the Davion forces.
But what remained of the 1st Galician Lancers? Those few people decided to raise up a merc company!
Spade's Hunters Company
In honor of Miguel "Spadejack" Paiva, a mid sargent on the Lancers and self taught mechwarrior who survived the rebelion. He took lead and with a few others, they formed the Hunters, as a form to hit cappelans back and getting paid on the process!
