> Actually Alex Ferguson takes the honours there.
Yet more credit-forwarding: the terms actually "arose from discussions" with Jim Catel, so joint blame is indicated. I should note that although I still think a vowel-consonant language for Vormain is a Fine Idea, the Oceans material lunges off in some quite different lingustic direction, so it shows so signs of becoming even remotely Official. (On the other hand, if some of us get our retaliation in first...)
My usage, for what it's worth, has been:
Vorumain (noun) -- the place
Vorumai (adjective) -- having to do with Vormain
Vorumainin (noun) -- the people of Vormain
Vormain and mysticism:
I take a different view from Sandy on the relationship between
Kralori mysticism and Vorumai "colour" magic; I think that while
there may be some (very) distant pre-Dawn pan-Vithelan relationship
between the above, the real connection is a much more palpable
historical one. First Age contact with the mainland leads to
Vorumain stealing many of its ideas, but shamelessly adapting them
to local uses. So "colour magic" is, to put it at its simplest,
what you get by running Mysticism and Dawn Age Vorumai religion
(a sort of somewhat animist affair, concerned with the Essences of
things) together at high speed. To complicate matters, both
constituent parties still exist in their more-or-less original
forms in modern Vorumain, so there are "colour sorcerers", priests
of the traditional religion, and "non-coloured" mystics all dotting
about the place simultaneously.
Alex.
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