Getting in Touch with the Praetorian You
By
Absolute Malice,
Posted on: 2009-07-01 24:09 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Brimstone Bruce = Berserk Bruce (currently exists as a broot)
Ultionis = Talio (They actually mean about the same thing [vengeance and retribution, respectively]... but Ult is a hero, so I didn't think it'd make much sense for his villainous self's name to mean forgiveness)
Patronox = Crucionox (Night Guardian and Night Tormentor, respectively)
Cortex Crusher = Cerebral Cleaver
Victory: @Brimstone Bruce
Brimstone Bruce (lvl50 Stone/Fire Tanker) Broadside Bruce (lvl50 Shield/WM Tanker)
Ultionis (lvl50 Dark/Dark Defender) Cortex Crusher (lvl50 Mind/Kin Controller)
Patronox (lvl50 Kat/Dark Scrapper) Harbinger Mk.7 (lvl50 Bots/FF MM)
NightShift for Life.
Ullikummis = The Cookie Destroyer
Joy Heretic = Ecstatic Iconoclast
Laughing Mind = Chuckling Soul
Deus Ex-Machina = Annoying Plot Twist
John Henry = Shop Steward
David Hume = Annoying Know-it-all.
Dreaming Furiously = Nightmaring Even More FURIOUSLY!!!!!!
Weeping Angel = Melencholy Servant
Song of Siva = Rick Roll of Kali
Useless Man = Useless Man that Insists on Trying to Help
That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.
Dr. Mechaniker - Dr. Tecsonic
Dr. Funktation - Rock God
Fortis - Glorious
@Mechaniker
Official Old Angry German Guy of CoV.
My Characters: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=247787
Hmm. This seems like fun....let's see what I can contribute.
Eureka Phoenix: Inspired Shiva
Steelmonger: Slagheap
Last Omegan: Overlord Alpha
Shadowtracker: Lightstealer
Slayshadow: Lifelight
Those are the ones that most translate, anyways...
S.
Part of Sister Flame's Clickey-Clack Posse
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I would get in touch with the Praetorian me but he's stopped returning my calls.
My first Villain was a intended to be a Praetorian version of my main Hero.
Trickshooter (H) = Pitfall (V)
My main hero is a french swashbuckler type. His name in french means "The Warrior"
Le Guerrier = Le Tueur
His Praetorian verson's name means "The Killer"
Lord Raptor lvl 50 Thugs/traps MM Le Guerrier lvl 50 Broadsword/invuln scrapper
Lola the Chain lvl 50 electric/energy brute Kage Ryu lvl 50 ninja/dark MM
Billy. Bones lvl 50 zombie/trick arrow MM Jet Stream lvl 50 Super Strength/invuln tank
I might have missed this as I have only skimmed through, but how are names for Villain created?
As for my Heroes
Fire/Fire Blaster Raahh (supposed to be Rah but I knew that was taken) = Anubis
Energy/Energy Blaster Da Captain = Da Conqueror
Fire/Rad Controller Container = Cauldron
Fire/Dev Blaster Fire Fleye = Combustable Maggot
Fire/Fire Tank Dark Candle = Midnight's Torch
Fire/Spines Scrapper Ruffness = Flagrant Foul
Dual Blade/Inv Scrapper Blessing to All = Curse
After reviewing this I seem to like to play with fire.
"Yes, winning all the time can be boring."
-Knight_Chill
"It's amazing how well you can put up with endurance issues if you hide them under a large enough pile of bodies."
-Spiritchaser speaking on Dom Revamp
I'd have to do with Castle's interpreatations of Praetorians And I created a Praetorian version of my namesake tanker - Lord Fuzun. Fuzun is a gentle, almost pacifist hero. Lord Fuzun is uncaring, arrogant viewing everyone and everything as playthings. As to some of my other chracters (giving it all of a minute of throught).
Lustrious : Notorious (Peacebringer)
Lustrious is short for Illustrious. Her temperment is very close to Ms Justice. So the Praetorian version would be very close to Domintrix.
Dark Matt R : Devoid (Warshade)
Dark matter is invisible but ever always making its presence known (Justice). Devoid...of any light, caring, or compassion.
Nyteshade : Nyteshade
Names for murdered parent. Just different sets of driving motivation.
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I would get in touch with the Praetorian me but he's stopped returning my calls.
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That's okay.. do you have any idea what trans-dimensional phone service charges are?!
Talk about your Roaming charges!
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
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Does that mean nothing is more sinister than Infernal or Malaise? 
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He could have a name variation from Malaise to Krankheit.
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."
-- Bruce Leverett, Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers
Well, my Blaster Sandy uses her real name, so I suppose her Preatorian counterpart would too. However, I made for her backstory that while "our" universe's Sandy managed to stop the robotic implants that were trying to turn her into a cyborg, the Preatorian version completed the task. So she's driven insane by the transformation, and doesn't speak or even refer to herself by a name. I've also just been calling my Preatorian counterparts "Preatorian <whatever>". I hadn't actually thought about alternate names.
I tried to come up with a name for a villain version of my main, Jade Dragon, but the best I could come up with was Jade Strangler. I thought of him as a Dominator, holding and suffocating foes with his power. Maybe even making him a Plant Dom.
Let me see though:
Jade Dragon = Draconian Oppressor (eh, still searching for the right word...)
Blue Diamond = Unbreakable
Genie Gold = Devious Djinn
Silver Bolt = White Lightning (being a villain, his counterpart could be a hero, or he might be pretty much the same)
Bloodwolf = The Wolf's Hunter (Bloodwolf would DEFINATELY be a vigilante hunting the so-called "heroes" of this world and taking them out once he found a weakness)
Sandy = Sandy (see above, although she might go by her robotic identifier, SD7784)
Joe Everyman = Man On The Street
My main is Lunaticia, a Mu Cataphract (Elec/Elec/Mu Brute) and nominal full-time Arachnos Agent... not that they ask her to do much, because she's kind of unreliable and insane. In the Praetorian World, she benefitted from more focused training earlier on in her career to wind up something more like a traditional Mu Mystitc, as a Storm/Elec/Elec Defender. A member of the heroic Sharkhead Island Defence Force, Pandemonika works with various other local mystics to keep the Leviathan asleep and run interference with Tyrant's agents trying to find more information about it. Or at least she did, before her husband was murdered and she pursued the killer to the Paragon that we know. I live in terror that the Going Rogue expansion is going to render her entire intricate backstory non-canon.
@Eisenzahn
GW2 - Melchior.2135
AIM - Euroclydon23
Email - scorpany@yahoo.com or <sameasmyAIM>@aol.com (for the sheer novelty of an almost 20 year old email address that hasn't been overwhelmed by spambots yet)
Fuerboll = Icecube
Psibeam = Muscle Spray
Mindtwitch = Heart Balance
Graveyard Girl = Nursery Man
Sacred Blade = Cursed Mace
Shining Starlight = Darkened Moonlight
Cobalt Constable = Crimson Criminal
Jumper Girl = Walking Man
Schwarze Faust = White Palm
War-Raptor = Peace Dove
Portal Girl = Wall Man
Savage Pride = Civilized Humility
Velocity = Inertia
Stormraiser = Calmdowner
Mizukage = Fire Light
Some of these make more sense than others >.>
-Rachel-
This looks to be entertaining. 
Hero/Villan : Praetorian
Jet Flash : Aegis Turbo (power armors)
Titanium Girl : Titanium Terror (superstrong metallic young women)
Kaishin : Daraku (halfling warriors, from the Japanese words for reformation and corruption respectively)
Doctor Mechanus : Professor M (robotic mastermind, Praetorian counterpart)
Voltanna : Lady Overload (electric blasters)
The Black Lioness : Death Hyena (genetics experiments with human and lion/hyena DNA)
The Pyroclastic Kid : Krakatoa (young men with volcanic powers)
Virtue Server: Jet Flash L50+3 EN/EN/Force Blaster | Doctor Mechanus L50+3 R/T/Mu MM | Titanium Girl L50+3 Inv/SS/EN Tanker | Kaishin L50+3 DB/SR/Primal Scrapper | Opilia L50+3 Crab Spider | Clockstriker L50+1 Kin/Elec/Primal Scrapper | Foxy Starr L27 Beam/Time Corrupter
Absolute Malice: Limited Benevolence ?
Hmm.
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Actually wouldn't Castle = Fortress?
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Castle is a reference to the chess maneuver of Castling, rather than to the architectural structure called a Castle. Hence my forum Avatar.
I was actually looking for a term synonymous with "Discovered Attack" for the Praetorian name, but settled on "Checkmate" when I couldn't find anything suitable in the 2 minutes I allowed myself to look.
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In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. Discovered attacks can be extremely powerful, as the piece moved can make a threat independently of the piece it reveals. Like many chess tactics, they succeed because the opponent is unable to meet two threats at once. While typically the consequence of a discovered attack is the gain of material, they do not have to do this to be effective; the tactic can be used merely to gain a tempo.
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Actually I would of thought:
En passant
When a pawn advances two squares, if there is an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file next to its destination square, then the opponent's pawn can capture it and move to the square the pawn passed over, but only on the next move.
So while Castle is a defensive move, En Passant is an offensive one.
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Alternatively, Castling is moving two pieces to protect one, the aggressive opposite would be a Fork: moving one piece to attack two. But playing an evil villain named "Fork" makes it sound like you're in an episode of The Tick.
Another possibility along the lines Castle was originally thinking is Battery which is often (not always) when two rooks line up to attack a King or a King's defenses. I think playing a Praetorian called Battery would be better than one called Fork, and the word is also synonymous with a crime.
Slightly more esoteric, since Castling is generally an early defensive move, another Praetorian opposing analog might be Endgame.
Battery, Endgame, and Checkmate all imply differences in style for the character, and none of them sound especially Blasterish (to me). However, they do all sound like they could be Dominators, so perhaps the Praetorian version of Castle is more of a Dominator than a Blaster (which actually makes a lot more sense with I15 Dominator numbers than the past would).
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Actually wouldn't Castle = Fortress?
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Castle is a reference to the chess maneuver of Castling, rather than to the architectural structure called a Castle. Hence my forum Avatar.
I was actually looking for a term synonymous with "Discovered Attack" for the Praetorian name, but settled on "Checkmate" when I couldn't find anything suitable in the 2 minutes I allowed myself to look.
EDIT: To add clarification:
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In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. Discovered attacks can be extremely powerful, as the piece moved can make a threat independently of the piece it reveals. Like many chess tactics, they succeed because the opponent is unable to meet two threats at once. While typically the consequence of a discovered attack is the gain of material, they do not have to do this to be effective; the tactic can be used merely to gain a tempo.
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Taken from Wikipedia
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Actually I would of thought:
En passant
When a pawn advances two squares, if there is an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file next to its destination square, then the opponent's pawn can capture it and move to the square the pawn passed over, but only on the next move.
So while Castle is a defensive move, En Passant is an offensive one.
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Alternatively, Castling is moving two pieces to protect one, the aggressive opposite would be a Fork: moving one piece to attack two. But playing an evil villain named "Fork" makes it sound like you're in an episode of The Tick.
Another possibility along the lines Castle was originally thinking is Battery which is often (not always) when two rooks line up to attack a King or a King's defenses. I think playing a Praetorian called Battery would be better than one called Fork, and the word is also synonymous with a crime.
Slightly more esoteric, since Castling is generally an early defensive move, another Praetorian opposing analog might be Endgame.
Battery, Endgame, and Checkmate all imply differences in style for the character, and none of them sound especially Blasterish (to me). However, they do all sound like they could be Dominators, so perhaps the Praetorian version of Castle is more of a Dominator than a Blaster (which actually makes a lot more sense with I15 Dominator numbers than the past would).
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There's always Skewer and Pin, or could be both: Skewer And Pin.
I actually already have a Villain version of my main. Onus Vox became 0nus Vox.
-Esch
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Actually wouldn't Castle = Fortress?
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Castle is a reference to the chess maneuver of Castling, rather than to the architectural structure called a Castle. Hence my forum Avatar.
I was actually looking for a term synonymous with "Discovered Attack" for the Praetorian name, but settled on "Checkmate" when I couldn't find anything suitable in the 2 minutes I allowed myself to look.
EDIT: To add clarification:
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In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. Discovered attacks can be extremely powerful, as the piece moved can make a threat independently of the piece it reveals. Like many chess tactics, they succeed because the opponent is unable to meet two threats at once. While typically the consequence of a discovered attack is the gain of material, they do not have to do this to be effective; the tactic can be used merely to gain a tempo.
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Taken from Wikipedia
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Actually I would of thought:
En passant
When a pawn advances two squares, if there is an opponent's pawn on an adjacent file next to its destination square, then the opponent's pawn can capture it and move to the square the pawn passed over, but only on the next move.
So while Castle is a defensive move, En Passant is an offensive one.
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I thought of that but couldn't think of the name.
Considering the irony of Castle being a defensive move but the character being a Fire Blaster, I vote for En Passant being a Shield Tank.
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So, in general, the Praetorian Name of a character is a reflection of their current name, but with a more...aggressive, sinister twist.
Given that:
Castle == Checkmate
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Not aggressive enough by half!
The evil Endgame!
People sometimes tell me I'm both pessimistic and paranoid but I think that's just because all you optimists are out to get me.
Other heroes i have:
flying tank: Jet Stream = Chinook
ninja: Snow Leopard = Fire Tiger
shield bashin' tank: Loggerhead = Snapper
Peacebringer: Sunglider = Nightflyer
Lord Raptor lvl 50 Thugs/traps MM Le Guerrier lvl 50 Broadsword/invuln scrapper
Lola the Chain lvl 50 electric/energy brute Kage Ryu lvl 50 ninja/dark MM
Billy. Bones lvl 50 zombie/trick arrow MM Jet Stream lvl 50 Super Strength/invuln tank
Hmmm... most of my characters are villains, so the opposite thing makes a little more sense.
Heroes
Bombshell Girl : Mz. Megaton
The Wardsman : The Oppressman
Villains
Agonus : Pacis
(Latin, "combat" to "peace")
Ahreman the Red : Vahram the Blue
(Ahreman is an "evil god" and Vahram is an angel in Zoroastrian mythology, already did this, fyi.)
Burning-Star : Bright Star
(I actually already play this up since she's a heroine that snapped, and yes, she will be going good come CHGR.)
Silver Scourge : Brass Boon
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
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So, in general, the Praetorian Name of a character is a reflection of their current name, but with a more...aggressive, sinister twist.
Given that:
Castle == Checkmate
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Not aggressive enough by half!
The evil Endgame!
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I think the real question is whether the Praetorian version of Castle is missing a beard, or has an even larger beard.
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Actually wouldn't Castle = Fortress?
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Castle is a reference to the chess maneuver of Castling, rather than to the architectural structure called a Castle. Hence my forum Avatar.
I was actually looking for a term synonymous with "Discovered Attack" for the Praetorian name, but settled on "Checkmate" when I couldn't find anything suitable in the 2 minutes I allowed myself to look.
EDIT: To add clarification:
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In chess, a discovered attack is an attack revealed when one piece moves out of the way of another. Discovered attacks can be extremely powerful, as the piece moved can make a threat independently of the piece it reveals. Like many chess tactics, they succeed because the opponent is unable to meet two threats at once. While typically the consequence of a discovered attack is the gain of material, they do not have to do this to be effective; the tactic can be used merely to gain a tempo.
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Taken from Wikipedia
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You could always go with Skewer. It's very similar to a double attack except the two pieces being attacked are in the same line.