Rhavin is certainly odd ... some of these names are interestingly positive, I wonder if the influence of the 50% of Aes Sedai going to the shadow made some of these names less doom and gloom than expected? I also find it interesting that only Moghedien (of the original names) is named after a thing, the rest are much more akin to titles that describe behaviors (although the Spider does that as well).
I'd think it would be the meaning of the name in a cultural context, like if someone was called "Tarantula" or something like that.
I didn't really see them as positive. I would have taken Rhavin as something like "I can do whatever I want". License, as opposed to freedom. Likewise with Balthamel. "Teacher of lessons" can be ominous sounding, as in "I'm going to teach him a lesson, he'll never forget."
Graendal I'd venture to say is akin to "Whore" as in "The Whore of Babylon"
Yeah, but without the prostitution denotation, which is why I used "Slut" instead. We don't have a lot of terms like that which do not technically refer to prostitution (I think even slut might, historically), which really doesn't fit for Graendal. Meanwhile "whore" also has connotations of compromise, like "sell-out" which is completely inapplicable to Graendal, except as it applies to all the Forsaken and Darkfriends. I totally agree with Whore as a better term, I just wanted to be a little more semantically precise, because the word has multiple uses.
Demandred I'd say is more like Back Stabber given the circumstances under which he went to the Shadow.
Ooh, good one.
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Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
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