12-17-2017, 01:54 PM
Hehe, thanks, Yaz! This might be something that our Anglo-Saxon friends don't particularly have on their radar; for any Southerner, this is pretty clear from the get-go.
"Cicatriz" is "scar" in Spanish. As to linguistic bases for the Elven names, I don't think that's the case, because Mr Arneson didn't really follow a pattern with the naming of people and places. Notably, an "aster" in Latin is a flower - or a star. My world of Meleon's city of Asterion, for example, is "the city of the fallen star".
I personally always assumed that this name was another example for the "Beverage Rule" - the hypothesis where I assume that all place names in Blackmoor (like Blackmoor itself) are taken from alcoholic drinks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asti_wine
Because this is what we nerds do. We drink, and we know things.
*Mental image of Luke Skywalker milking those green boobies in TLJ.*
NO, Luke! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Cicatriz" is "scar" in Spanish. As to linguistic bases for the Elven names, I don't think that's the case, because Mr Arneson didn't really follow a pattern with the naming of people and places. Notably, an "aster" in Latin is a flower - or a star. My world of Meleon's city of Asterion, for example, is "the city of the fallen star".
I personally always assumed that this name was another example for the "Beverage Rule" - the hypothesis where I assume that all place names in Blackmoor (like Blackmoor itself) are taken from alcoholic drinks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asti_wine
Because this is what we nerds do. We drink, and we know things.
*Mental image of Luke Skywalker milking those green boobies in TLJ.*
NO, Luke! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!