Names for the Githyanki Project Book

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I was thinking that there could be some definitely interesting names to call this particular book of Section.

Some that came to mind is....

Legacy of the Lich-Queen

Dynasty Wars of the Gith

Swords of the Githyanki

Soul War: The War of the Githyanki

Vlaakith's Vengeance

I'm inclined for Legacy of the Lich Queen myself. But one of the others with a title could work well.

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If y'all take a gander at the Forum Index and look under the link for this section, you'll notice that it says something like "Current Project: 'The Lich-Queen's dead! Now what do we do?'"

That's the idea of what we wanted to write about when we started coming up with ideas for that conflict and the new power groups that sprung up. Something big happened, and now there's a sense of uncertainty as to the future of the githyanki people. While it admirably captures that nugget, it's obviously no kind of title to bestow upon the collective work that gets posted about the topic. I think coming up with a cool name would be a good thing.

There's a PBP campaign in the RP forum of Planewalker ("Blades of Git'raban") that calls the conflict The Quicksilver War, since it takes place on the Astral Plane, the Silver Void.

I also like "Legacy of the Lich-Queen." Vlaakith's Vengeance sounds too alliterative for me, and I think it places too much importance on Vlaakith, who after all is mostly influencing the action by kicking the un-bucket.

But I'm also a sucker for one-word, punchy names. Destination. Departure. Dissolution. Rift. Hereafter. Topia. Rapture (no good- a Planescape adventure stole the name). Consequence. Causatum. I would say "Termination," but it sounds like it involves robots. Or "Break All Bonds." Or maybe something real avant-garde and pretentious, like "Nigh."

Maybe a good inspiration for what all this stuff could become might be Monte Cook's "event books." Malhavoc Press published these two books called Requiem for a God and When the Sky Falls. They were books that let DMs say "okay, a god has just died," or "okay, a meteor has just hit the world," and the book told them what happened and gave cool toys to play with in the aftermath of that change. I think this could be an event book of sorts that says "okay, someone killed the Lich-Queen of the githyanki. And here's what happens now."

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Just let me know what you guys decide on and I'll fix the forum name up for you. Smiling

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Well I say go for Legacy of the Lich Queen. If for no other reason than it's easy to remember and I've got nothing better.

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Plus it sounds cool.

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I like it too. 1 vote for Legacy of the Lich Queen,

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"Shards of Susurrus".

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'extropymine' wrote:
"Shards of Susurrus".

True, but that lacks outside Recognition. Even amongst fans of the Githyanki.

Everyone knows what a Lich is.

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"Legacy of the Lich-Queen" has a nice ring to it.

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I'm actually fond of Legacy of the Lich-Queen as well. It just has a good ring to it and gives the right guiding feel to the work as a whole. Smiling

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Legacy of the Lich Queen it is, then.

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