[tirrigh-heralds] Lily discussion
Uilliam mac Ailéne mhic Seamuis
uilliam at shaw.ca
Sun Jun 3 09:18:52 PDT 2007
Quentin Martel wrote:
> We have several award names to get passed so in order to spur
> conversation on these, I'm breaking them up into individual threads.
> This one is on the Lily.
>
> The story so far:
>
> We have an award for the consort of the second place finisher in the Tir
> Righ coronet lists. It's currently called the Lily. This clearly
> conflicts with every other Lily in the knowne world, so we'd like to
> find an alternative.
>
> Issues: Keeping the "Lily" part is desireable as there is strong precent
> in An Tir for what a given Lily means. Plus we've been using that name
> for awhile and small changes are more desireable than large ones.
>
> Attempts: Basically, we're looking for a ducmentable modifier for Lily
> that fits with the Tir Righ theme. Mountain Lily, Alpine Lily, and
> Edelweiss (a montain lily) were looked at, but the favority - Alpine
> Lily - ran smack into the fact that the Summits uses the Alpine theme
> heavily. Edelweiss would need some manuvering around Drachenwalkd
> conflict, but sacrifices the lily word.
And 'duh' - the obvious ones:
Storm Lily
Tempest Lily
to tie into the Storm Thrones.
Uilliam
who really should have gotten more sleep last night, but Anaheim was
losing to Ottawa...
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