Nation names ??

[Wauthan]

Jotunheim - Realm (heim can mean kingdom, home and world aswell tough) of the Giants. The place were evil dwelled. The great and terrible wolf Fenrir was enfettered there until the coming of Ragnarok. In Jotunheim there was a mighty fortress called Utgard.

Vanheim - Realm of the Vanir. The Vanir was a kind of rivaling family of gods mentioned here and there in the old Aesir mythology. Frey, Freya and Njord were three vanir gods that joined the Aesir pantheon, through a dubious trade.

Midgard - Middle Earth, but after some recent movies everyone knows that.

Nifelheim - The mistshrouded realm. The land of darkness and unbearable cold. Within it lies Helheim (or simply Hel, so named after the godess who rules it), the realm of the dead.

Muspelheim - The worldpyre. The opposite of Neifelheim. Not featured in the game but a possibility for a mod perhaps. Would love to see Surt and other giants of fire.

[Truper]

And Ermor? Simply Rome backwards, with an extra "r" to make it sound better

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Endoperez:
Ulm exists, it is a place in Germany. The intelligence of Ulmians, or lack of it, is joking matter in Germany, or so I have heard...

Lack of...? Including Einstein?

[Maximillian]

Originally posted by ywl:
Depends... There is more than one way to romanize Chinese characters. Tien Chi is definitely not Pin Yin, the official method for the mainland China.

Oops that was a mistake on my part. My Pin Yin must be getting really rusty

I agree with you that a general named "Lui Bei" serving under me sure feels funny. Since Dominions mostly takes other nations from Celtic/Norse/Aztec/etc myths, I think it would have been better if IW used actual figures from Chinese mythology with correct Pin Yin names instead of "vaguely Chinese" ones.

Hmm... you know, we could always make a mod to do exactly that

[alexti]

Originally posted by Maximillian:
I agree with you that a general named "Lui Bei" serving under me sure feels funny. Since Dominions mostly takes other nations from Celtic/Norse/Aztec/etc myths, I think it would have been better if IW used actual figures from Chinese mythology with correct Pin Yin names instead of "vaguely Chinese" ones.

Hmm... you know, we could always make a mod to do exactly that

AFAIR, many names in Dominions I came in response to this request:
http://www.google.ca/Groups?hl=en&lr...ewsc.telia.net

I guess Dom II inherited those names, but Tien Chi was added in Dom2, so if you have good Chinese and Pin Yin, Illwinter may welcome added/corrected list of names for Tien Chi.

[quantum_mechani]

Originally posted by Wauthan:

Muspelheim - The worldpyre. The opposite of Neifelheim. Not featured in the game but a possibility for a mod perhaps. Would love to see Surt and other giants of fire.

Actually, there is a spell 'Warriors of Muuspelheim', gives fire resistance to your army IIRC. Still, it does sound like a good idea for a mod.

[reverend]

let me expand on Ulm (founded in 854) a bit.

Ulm is the place of the tallest church in the world, the Ulmer Münster, 161.53m tall, built in 1377-1890.
the stair to the top of the tower has 753 steps, and the Münster offers room for 20000 people.

here a few pictures:
http://www.ulmer-muenster.de/portal/indmueg.jpg
and from across the Danube:
http://www.ulmer-muenster.de/portal/muentot2.gif

of course, Ulm is also the home of A. Einstein, and this year is "Einstein year", celebrating his 125th birthday.

if you don't know Einstein:
http://www.8ung.at/liquid1/clipart/bw/einstein.jpg


by the way, Ulmians, and the whole region (Schwaben) are usually accused of being stingy. there's a German joke "Schotten sind des Landes wegen Verschwendungssucht verwiesene Schwaben" but don't ask me to translate it