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Tradition of Latin map names? by c4ooo January 17, 2015 at 1:01 AM UTC

Allot of Nebula maps are in Latin or have some Latin/Greek origin(ex: Proelium,Ternio ect.). Even 3 servers names apply:
 Luna (moon) Cronus(Father of Zeus, king titan, his name is Greek for time), and Icarus, who was the name of the son of Daedalus the inventor.
So who started  this? Where did this tradition began? (not that i have anything against this i think its cool)

The_Detonator_ January 17, 2015 at 2:01 AM UTC

Ooh! A question I can answer!

It started with Haribo98/ParaPenguin with Ternio. Ternio is Latin for the number three, which is the number of monuments.

Was continued by G_SKIPPY with Quintus, which by the way was initially called Ternio 2, until ParaPenguin informed him that Ternio was Latin for three, so G_SKIPPY called it Quintus, which is Latin for five.

Porkyyy January 17, 2015 at 3:01 AM UTC

Latin names just sound more fascinating than normal English names, which is why most players give their maps such names.

PokerFace January 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM UTC

Yea man. We all got bored of English.

Sphrynax January 17, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC

Yea man. We all got bored of English.
True dat!!11!111!11!!111!

Spoookeh January 17, 2015 at 1:01 PM UTC

Senex as well: (Old man) I was thinking of asking permission from the senex builders if I could make a map called iuvenis (young man) and make it maybe smaller or something.EDIT: If I got permission, I would probably just refresh it and make it newer

Trexychan January 17, 2015 at 3:01 PM UTC

There are very few english words that sound cool :P
Ice vs. Glaciem
Fire vs. Huo (Chinese)

I remember many of these maps (senex, rigor mortis, quintus, rendezvous, even though that's french I think) Have foreign names. It just adds this uniqueness to the map.