Naming Contest

Naming Contest

Naming Contest

Looking for a better name for the Charterhall University department that focuses on the philosophy, spectrology, and the humanities. Here are the current contenders. Love to hear what people think:

(Note Charterhall University is a merchant guild and partially city funded center of learning. As compared to the White Crown Academy which is an Ivy League school for the social and financial elite).

12 thoughts on “Naming Contest”

  1. Others that I have which I’m happy about:

    Spartright Tower

    Dunvil School of Sea and Stars

    Jayan Hall of Anatomy and Alchemy

    Charter Wall

    House of Jurisprudence

    So yeah, I’m not married to department at all. School, Center, House, Hall, etc would all be fine. I’d rather avoid “college” though, as that is how the Doskvol Academy is divided.

    Metaphysics was used by Aristotle, so I’d be okay with using it, even if it isn’t in the current Blades parlance.

  2. Ontology basically means the same thing as metaphysics. But Aristotle was really the first to use the word metaphysics, so it’s not a modern word.

  3. The Charterhall University Vocational College of Natural Philosophy and the more interesting but smaller (because the entrance exams are more difficult) Charterhall University Vocational College of Unnatural Philosophy.

  4. “Faculty” is a term used in Oxford for macro-departments. “Faculty of Spectral Philosophy” or Johnstone Metzger’s idea “Unnatural Philosophy” appeal to me.

    An idea that gets to more of the humanities as well could be something like School of Spectral Culture Studies.

  5. Yeah, I’d go with Faculty.

    Older universities also have a habit of mangling inappropriate departments together into faculties for purely admin/funding purposes, so Faculty of Eshatology, Humanities and Electroplasmic Engineering might be a thing.

  6. Slightly off-topic, but our crew liberated a book from a stuffy old library. Matthew Harris Glover made us come up with the contents of the collected volume. I thought it might be useful for other folks’ games. A few of us are deep in academia, and so we decided the title of the collection was Spectrology: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Salvatore Tierney. Key papers include:

    –“Dawn of the Electroplasmic Age: The Post-Cataclysmic Practices of Harnessing Spirits”

    –“An Enchiridion of Demons, Devils, & Other Fiends”

    –“Turning Lead into Souls: Alchemy in the New Age”

    –“The Leviathan: A Renewable Resource?”

    I’m going to enjoy quoting these…

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