Fun with technicalities!

[ursula]

Just in case you're not aware of this, the SCA registers names. The SCA guarantees that a registered name will be "unique": of course, the meaning of unique is a complicated issue, especially when we're talking about plausible names for medieval people.

This is a poll about what you think uniqueness ought to mean. This is not a poll about whether names should be unique, nor is it a quiz on the rules as they currently stand; it's a philosophical exercise.

[Poll #1098571]

Comments

[ursula]

You may well have more personas that fit Isabel-- I can think of 3 Elizabeths off the top of my head, and one Ysabelot, but in general demographic terms An Tir is lacking in c. 1200-1500 Western European personas.

[kthrockmorton.livejournal.com]

Since one of the periods that is fairly popular in Atenveldt is 14th century I think that you are likely correct. As a side note, I was slightly surprised to read that Elizabeth was so common in An Tir, as I had somehow picked up the idea that An Tir is almost entirely peopled by Vikings.

[ursula]

We do have lots of Vikings (and lots of Vikings that win Crown). We also have lots of Scythian/Mongol/nomadic personas, and a party contingent of generiCelts and pirates. (There was one summer when the big party households called themselves The Vikings, The Celts, and The Pirates.) But it's quite common for people who are specifically interested in costuming to do Elizabethan stuff, so combined with the late-period Scottish/Irish plaid enthusiasts and a recent fad for Landsknecht the sixteenth century is fairly well represented.