Funny question

[beth-shulman.livejournal.com]

Why isn't the country Attolia called Attolis? The common thread running through the countries' names seems to indicate that the kings are called after the country - Sounis, Eddis - and that the queens are a female version of that - Eddia, Sounia, and Attolia. Do you think there's some sort of unmentioned history that resulted in the country being named after their queen?

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[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

It goes back the the very early days, when Eddis, Attolia, and Sounis were actually one country. The warlord-like person (we'll call him Warlord 1) who ran the section that is now Attolia decided that he wanted a separate country. The leaders of the other two sections (Warlords 2 and 3, for convenience) did not want to separate. Warlord 1 insisted that he was breaking away. 2 and 3 insisted that no, he wasn't. He said the equivalent of "Wanna bet?" and there were great stratagems and battles. On the final field of battle, where Warlord 1 had triumphed decisively, he met with Warlords 2 and 3. "See?" said Warlord 1. "Attolia so. Now, are you two also going to break away?" "Oh, yeah," said Warlord 2. "Sounis I can get my army back together."

[(Anonymous)]

"Eeee! Dis is stooopid!," said Warlord 3, and went off to skulk in the Mountains, and study proverbs, and other abstruse things. His favorite proverb? "The man who would make a pun would pick a pocket." So he did, and thus the Thieves of Eddis were born.

The End!

;-)

~deirdrej

PS Aged Crone, have I told you lately, you are awesome!