[UA] Other names for Unknown Armies?

[Hammons, Jade]

I'm fond of Nameless Armies... it has that same kind of 'Biblical Feel'
that Unkown Armies has, Hidden Armies seems to lack that. Of course I
have no idea why Unknown Armies has that feel for me but it does.
Perhaps it's that Nameless/Unknown evoke a sensation that you don't even
know what you're facing, whereas Hidden doesn't evoke the same feel of
dread.

Jade Hammons


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Stolze [mailto:holycrow at mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 6:24 PM
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: [UA] Other names for Unknown Armies?



>As I said, the "Armies" part sounds fine, and I think that I should
keep
>it (or maybe not? hmmm...) and just find another adjective. For now, I
>have two variants: "Nameless Armies" ("Bezejmenne armady") and "Hidden
>Armies" ("Skryte Armady"). What do you think? Which one is closer to
the
>original?
>Or maybe, is it that my sense for english is just wrong, and "Unknown"
>_is_ supposed to have that plain, insignificant feel I sense in its
>czech equivalent? It is hard to judge subtle differences in words from
>other languages...

I'll bet it is!

Man, John and I had a bitch of a time naming the game.  I was lobbying
for
"The Invisible World" (as in "Wonders of") or "Smoke and Mirrors", but
John
had wood for "Unknown Armies" because it's a quote from a WB Yeats poem,
"The Valley of the Black Pig."

"Insignificant Armies" is probably not the way you want to go, no.
"Nameless Armies" and "Hidden Armies" both work better.

-G.

Living with a toddler?  Well, I guess it's not that much different from
any
other room mate who thinks that squatting naked on the kitchen floor
eating
pretzel sticks is a good way to start the morning.

Oh wait.  It is different.

www.waylay.com
www.thehungersite.com



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