[UA] Euphemistic Names for Other Worlds

cd skogsberg d97skog at dtek.chalmers.se
Mon Apr 8 12:48:37 PDT 2002


Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:
> I'm working on that surveying-the-chicago-subways
> campaign idea passed around last month for an upcoming
> session or two with my UA group.

> I want to draw a few (obvious) parallels betwen
> magical underworlds and the subway system, but also to
> have a few parallels about upperworlds (like the one
> Jack the Giant Killer climbs the beanstalk to reach in
> kiddie stories.)

> I need a few euphemistic names for magical people or
> places to type out in a long, badly-arranged list for
> my players to find.  So far, all I've got is:

[List elided]

> I still need about 50 more.

Hel
Niflhel
Valhall
Muspelheim
Jotunheim
Niflheim
Nidavellir

http://www.pantheon.org/ can be helpful as well.

/cd
-- 
  "The essence of magick is the idea that you can change reality by
replacing it with your own reality in your mind.  In light of this,
most of modern religion is magick.  As is most of modern politics."
                                                   -- Magnus Itland

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