A tip of what to name your "Dragon Grandchildren" in Cathay plays

TheWattman

Now that WH3 is approaching more closely, I want to share a line of thinking that I've been developing around when I get to actually play Cathay, especially when it comes to the naming of your in-game recruited Dragon-blooded Shugengan lords. I love the fact that they are offspring of the Dragon Children themselves and I've been thinking of how I can customize them, if not so much visually as with their names and the implications that come with them. My assumption here is that any "Dragon Grandchildren" recruited by either Miao Ying or Zhao Ming (and the other Children when we get them) are THEIR specific offspring and thus inherit similarly structured powers. Let me demonstrate:

This link takes you to a Wiki page containing the names of traditional Chinese gods and deities:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_gods_and_immortals#Gods_of_celestial_and_terrestrial_phenomena

Now, lets say you are playing as Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon (even though her spell selection doesn't contain any lightning spells, but that's another discussion) and you'd like for her kids to also be storm-related. Well then we see, among others, the name "Leishen", which is the Thunder God. Pretty good for an offspring of the Storm Dragon right? As for Zhao Ming, since he is connected with Metal, then Jinshen the Gold God could be an option, or Caishen the Wealth God if you want a child focused on dealings with the Ivory Road.

One more thing: Chinese naming rules dictate that the family/last name is written first, which if you follow it, will affect how you should name your Grandchildren. For the Storm Dragon, the family name is Miao, so the previously mentioned Grandchild would be called Miao Leishen, just as Jinshen, son of Zhao Ming, would be called Zhao Jinshen.

Its up to you guys if you want to uphold this, or if you experiment with splitting names or go with a more western tradition of last names, but in any case, this could be a fun way to bring some further uniqueness to the lords you recruit as either of the Dragon Children.

MrDragon

Cute post, I might actually do this for fun and create my own little dynasty. Thanks for the fluff.

talonn

Can't wait for Li Dao DLC. I want to name his son Jet Li

TheWattman

MrDragon said:

Cute post, I might actually do this for fun and create my own little dynasty. Thanks for the fluff.

Exactly my thoughts as well, you're welcome!

KuntingWarrior

Was planning on naming my main general Jackie Chan but I guess this works also. Nice find boyo.

Any more series you bringing out for us like the rap battle one?

TheWattman

KuntingWarrior said:

Any more series you bringing out for us like the rap battle one?

The raps are in the works, I just got very busy over the holidays and I have a lot of lore to look though for the next pair. With luck, either this weekend or next week.

KuntingWarrior

TheWattman said:

KuntingWarrior said:

Any more series you bringing out for us like the rap battle one?

The raps are in the works, I just got very busy over the holidays and I have a lot of lore to look though for the next pair. With luck, either this weekend or next week.

May the luck be with you.

MiniaAr

Interesting post.

It would be cool if it became a series for Kislev, Ogres (I have Gargantua and Pangagruel from Rabelais' books, but other ideas would be appreciated), Deamons, etc...

TheWattman

MiniaAr said:

Interesting post.

It would be cool if it became a series for Kislev, Ogres (I have Gargantua and Pangagruel from Rabelais' books, but other ideas would be appreciated), Deamons, etc...

Thank you. I did have an idea of trying to track down the Atamans of the settlements of Kislev. But there are other stuff I need to do first.

Edit: I did do a minor LL version for Slaanesh a while back: https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/302192/6-minor-lls-for-slaanesh-roleplayers#latest

ArneSo

Nice post, thank you for sharing that!