: In today's society though, people aren't always named for
: their origin.
Precisely! This is not today's society. I am named "Luke", yet the origin of that name is about 4,000 miles away in England, and
This is why I pointed out that the Mythworld is very, very isolated, and an area no larger than Europe can qualify as the entire world. Hell, even different classes of the Provincials have different names, as is visible between the Warriors and the Bowmen.
Back to the original analogy:
In the Middle Ages of Europe, a time more advanced than even the Mythworld, however less in a few areas, a name like "George" would obviously go with England. "Johanna" is blatently German. "Ricardo" is either Spanish or Italian. "Jaques" is French. In the world today, there may be some crossovers. Myth is hardly the world today, however! It is painfully isolated from other regions, even with the World Knots. Therefore, a people as different as the Northmen will show themselves purely in every one of their foreign aspects, including their names.
: I have a friend called Giovanni, and he
: isn't Greek or Italian or even from outside Australia.
: If a family left the north to dwell in the south (and
: I agree, it wouldn't be an everyday occurence), of
: course they'd pay homage to their homeland. Or he may
: just be a normal person whose parents liked the name.
Yes, homeland, exactly. The Mythworld is so isolated, it is going to be at least as incommunicative as the Middle Ages. In that time, most people didn't go three miles from their place of birth in their entire lifetimes! If the Mythworld is even close to that, it will be isolated enough for the name of "Andir" to be clearly Northman!
: Aye, but why would Bungie write from the perspective of
: the north, an area we are never exposed to?
Because they already did the other thing, and want to try something from a new perspective.
You don't sound like a writer to me. A writer would want to portray things from many different angles to describe a more complete universe. You would have the events placed in the Province? Rubbish. It can be practically anywhere that people who are like Andir live.
: Wouldn't
: they want us to be instantly drawn into the conflict,
: and using a 'familiar' location would do much to
: achieve this.
No, never. I would shoot myself before succumming to that kind of monotony in my writing.
: If what we know of the Northmen is true,
: they'd probably have some form of town guard.
What we know about the Northmen: besides the zerks, NOTHING! Town guard? Where does it say that?
: A town
: guard almost always has sentries, and sentries would
: be on the lookout for a person running across a mile
: long expanse of plain.
And If a witch burns, and wood burns, a witch must be made of wood. Wood floats in water. A duck also floats in water. Therefore, a witch must weight the same as a duck, and any woman that weighs as much as a duck is a witch.
The same kind of horridly illogical reasoning is what has led to thousands of innocents being murdered over the centuries. I hope you realize that your own logic is just as flawed.
