<![CDATA[The Next Big Writer — etc3]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/topic3369-etc3.html Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:00:20 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: etc3]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44392.html#p44392 "Alliance" for "Coalition"?  Use two words for one of the descriptors?  Eg. "Kleenex Council"/"Council of Kleenex" which can be shortened to the unambiguous "Kleenex"?

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:00:20 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44392.html#p44392 <![CDATA[Re: etc3]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44391.html#p44391 Wizards of Gilgamesh sounds pretty cool. Along those lines - Dark Lords of Babel. Sons of Molech.

Search "Pagan God's of the Bible" or similarly. Or search cities names.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:51 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44391.html#p44391 <![CDATA[Re: etc3]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44390.html#p44390 I'd plug your above paragraph into one or more AIs and see what they come up with. Gemini has been pretty good with helping me name a few things.

Edit: Tower Wizards doesn't sound ideal. It doesn't suggest anything about what they are/do in the story.

]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:22:24 +0000 https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44390.html#p44390 <![CDATA[etc3]]> https://www.thenextbigwriter.com/forums/post44389.html#p44389 I'm a unique position in this rewrite to rename one group of entities who suffered a name-similarity problem.
In the main milieu, the characters fight a coalition of what I'll call [Coalition Wizards]
Much later they fight the world's ruling council ... What I'll call [Council Wizards]
This term-similarity has been dogging me for decades, but I'm in a position to finally change the second one,
For now, Council was changed to Tower. It works because the council meets in a tower. But it's a bit weak. Thoughts? Invent a foreign-sounding word? Steal from the Bible (wizards of Gilgamesh)?

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