> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_von_Wallenstein
> > I'd never heard of him before, but a quick skim shows definite parallels.
> Oh well, another cultural assumption gone into "never heard of it" land.
Blame the British education system and it's "start at the beginning and go on to the end" methods. He's slightly later than the point at which I dropped history, and the bits and pieces I've picked up by reading at random since didn't mention him. In fact, the entire war is news to me (well, beyond the assumption that most of Europe has spent most of its history at war, so the chances were that a war was occuring between those dates).
Yes, he looks like a good parallel and source of inspiration.
> "Besides it being completely "non-Glorantha-sounding" IMO...."
Yes, most of Glorantha, at least in this area, doesn't have German-derived names. (A shame.) But this is why I tend to look at literal meanings, and translate. "Boiling stone". Put that in some other language (what language is preferred, for Tarsh? Latin/Greek for Lunars?) and you have the reference for those who like it.
Carregberwi, or something like it, in Welsh/Stormspeech.
Lapideus ferveo in Latin (I think - my Latin is rusty)
Neither of which sound too good to me :(
Ooh, maybe we can use that meaning, as how the business empire got started. Ever heard the story about Stone Soup? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_soup
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