[Called-by-the-Voices]

Felixcrow;142039 said:

Geez, seems like noone can appreciate a joke nowadays. Yeah, the dancer/cotillion thing does sound like more than just a coincidence, but maybe when SE was thinking up names he did the same thing I do when I name RPG chars and just looks in a dictionary for inspiration. Until we hear right from the horse's mouth and SE himself says if anything was intended with the names of his characters, I'll just stick with the coincidence thing. It's the easiest theory that fits all the facts.
But, since I don't wanna be a total killjoy, I'll try to keep an open eye and an open mind when I'm re-reading the series again and if I see something that looks suspect, I'll report it.

This could well be true
But, after all this time I'm under the impression that NOTHING in Wu that SE writes about is a coincidence....:cool:

Geez I just figured Nil/Nether- when put together it would spell "nothing underneath" Spooky

[Paleman]

Cotillion - French dance (see Dolorous Menhir's comment)

Cotillion - an obscure record label that released recordings from the original Woodstock festival of 1969. I found this out whilst tracking down a recording by a psychedelic band called the QUILL whose only album was released on this record label. They were the opening act on the Saturday of the 1969 festival. I wonder if SE has the record.

[Falco]

I dunno if this has been covered, but Ashok (as in the Ashok regiment) means "without sorrow" in Sanksrit and was the name of great Indian emperor.

[MottIrregular]

good lord, how did I forget that one!

[Dolorous Menhir]

[quote name='http://www.answers.com/topic/draconian']dra·co·ni·an (drā-kō'nē-ən, drə-) pronunciation
adj.

Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.[/quote]

Clearly the origin of the name "Draconus", whose cruelty was legend.

Of course, there is the clear link to "draconean" also, in the sense of the Eleint, the dragons.

[Bl1nder]

Heh, is there a single name that doesnt mean something ?

[Jheral]

Iarwain Ben-Adar;142032 said:

Someone (possibly T'lan Imass - Is it Silverfox?) calls Whiskeyjack 'Bird that Steals'.

A bit late maybe, (long since you posted), but even so.
The man that called him that was the leader of the Black Moranth that delivered the Bridgeburners to Darujhistan in the beginning of Gardens of the Moon.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

in Mt there's a Nacht(I think) named Pule.

In Norwegian Pule is a rather rude word for being intimate with another person, it means the same as an English four letter word, starting with F and ending with ck....I wonder if that was intentional?

[BridgeBurner]

Darujhistan
Capustan

-stan is taken from the Persian language, meaning country, nation or land belonging to a tribe; (comparable with Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc).

I know. Hard to miss that one

[Saccian]

Heh, I'm currently rereading GOTM and was wondering where the 'Bird that Steals' reference comes from. I've seen some of those gray jay birds around here. Next time I see one I'll ask it if its a Bridgeburner.

[Rahvinn]

Fear means 'man' is Irish

[Dolorous Menhir]

Terragarth;147746 said:

Heh, I'm currently rereading GOTM and was wondering where the 'Bird that Steals' reference comes from. I've seen some of those gray jay birds around here. Next time I see one I'll ask it if its a Bridgeburner.

That's a reference to Whiskeyjack. "Whiskey Jack" is another term for a Jay bird.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Jay

[Dolorous Menhir]

On the subject of the brothers Sengar, some time with Google reveals:

Trull:

[quote name='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trull']Trull is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated two miles south west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 1,861.

Although the word 'trull' means a female of ill repute, ie a harlot/prostitute, Trull is a frequently occuring surname in USA, but a rare surname in the UK.[/quote]

Which is interesting, though difficult to link to the character. Trull certainly enjoys ill-repute among the Edur, but he's unlikely to be mistaken for a female. Or an Englishman.

Binadas:

[quote name='http://messenger.yahooligans.com/reference/dict_en_es/spanish/binar']bi·nar

tr.

agriculture to plow or hoe a second time

intr.

religion to celebrate two masses on the same day (said of a priest)

Inflected Forms: bina - intr
binaba - intr
binabais - intr
binaban - intr
binabas - intr
binad - intr
binada - intr
binadas - intr[/quote]

This is Spanish, and I'm not really sure what to take away from it. Was Binadas the second of the brothers? I remember Fear was eldest, Rhulad youngest, but of Binadas & Trull which were second & third?

Rhulad yields no results not related to Malazan.

[Illuyankas]

Fear, Trull, Binadas, Rhulad. Fear has that internal monologue about how Trull was first of his brothers, and stuff.

[Dolorous Menhir]

Ok, then that kind of ruins the "second hoe" link if Binadas was third.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Does that make Rhulad's Empress the First Hoe? Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

Barghest
by Micha F. Lindemans
A monstrous dog with huge teeth and claws from the area around Yorkshire, northern England. It only appears at night. People believe that anyone who sees the dog clearly will die soon after the encounter. In Wales, they have the red-eyed Gwyllgi, the Dog of Darkness. On the Isle of Man it is called Mauthe Dog. (See also: Black Dogs.)

[dktorode]

Dolorous Menhir;120619 said:

Icarium is close to Icarus, of Greek mythology.

so you reckon icarium is flying to close to the sun?

in a way he actually might be...

[rlfcl]

this has probably been posted before, but Lieutenant Ranal is quite anal...