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Originally Posted by LordZen
Like Dictatress, Chancellor, Citizen, Statesman, Ambassador, Nobleman, Postmaster, Duelist, Sentry, or the more historical: Trademaster?
Point is, Immigrant was not out of place, Wren....(It doesn't make sense to) cause... confusion by adopting new names for the positions people would hold that are not of the same tongue that all of the people of the nation speak!
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What language do Zormites speak, Zen? English? I dont think this is a supportable argument for having both English and Greek derivative rank names in our ranking structure for several reasons.
Listen, I reigned as Dictatress a full year and am still active in the leadership of Zormite. Frankly, it has always been very difficult to get players to RP the political end of Zormite culture. They're just not as interested in it as you are, Zen. No offense, but the constitution is incomplete and hard to understand for most players.
Even so, I preserve your political concepts out of personal respect for you. I have strived to remain sensitive to your contributions to Zormite. But I'm telling you, I have found (1) when people enter the political system of Zormite, they stop actively RPing. (2) The criticism from outside has been too great to ignore in regards to the lack of roleplaying and originality in our kingdom.
You approved, with great praise, my addition of the Ministry of Information, which has rank names entirely created from Greek derivatives (like the MoR). In fact, so closely did it align with your philosophy, you mistakenly took credit for it's creation in another thread. You also expressed approval of the ministry of Arcane Arts rank names. If its good for the MoR and the MoI and the MoAA, its surely good for the political and social structures as well. The same creativity logically applies to the governmental ranks.
Should originality be exclusive to the ministry of religion? Ancient culture effects modern cultures. It stands to reason Zormite modern ranks (including both political and social) would have been named with influences from ancient languages and religions. This would apply to all the ministries, not excluding modern day ranks. Making the rank names fit across the entire spectrum of the ranking structure makes more sense, and is more original and more consistent.
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Originally Posted by LordZen
"Archism" received its name as a derivative from the royal family's name.... Archist is a natural extension from the term Archism...
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So is Archion and Archioness and all the ranks with 'archi' prefixes. True, they aren't rank names YOU created, but they do fit your criteria, and mine, having origins established with the royal family name of Archigos. While I made every attempt to respect and preserve your ideology of Zormite's governmental structure in all that I did, and the original ministries as you envisioned them, please allow me a small bit of room to be creative and contribute my own personal touches as well. Oddly, you have been the only person to criticize the rank name changes. To those who study the RP meanings and who actually play Kingdoms, the new rank names have been entirely supported.
Wren Sagesun Archigos, Eldekahn of Zormite