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).
Metaphysical seems too modern a phrase to me, I prefer philosophy for a more steampunk feel
Even Department sounds modern to my ear, is there a more anachronistic term?
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.
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.
But look into Madame Blavatsky, and her theosophy/ spiritualist movement.
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.
Dunvil School of Sea and Stars gets my vote
“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.
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.
Ooh, “Eschatology” is a good addition to the consideration.
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…
Oh my Deirdra Mercury, those titles are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing, I’m totally going to use them!