Well, it was his title in Eddis. He's Attolis now.
Which, side note, is also interesting -- since the King of Attolia's title is Attolis, and Eugenides mentions that one of his grandfathers "was Eddis," and the King of Sounis is likewise Sounis, I'd guess that in this world, in the language shared by our three little coastal countries "--is" is a masculine ending, "--ia" a feminine one. Which has two interesting implications: 1. that the Queen of Eddis, either by some Eddisian tradition or by her own choice, has taken a masculine name, and 2. that Attolia is and presumably has long been a country where it is the queen and not the king who is, on some level, the embodiment of the nation.
Which makes me think of Shakespeare, but that's probably its own post.
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Re: Names/Titles
Date: 12/13/06 01:39 am (UTC)Which, side note, is also interesting -- since the King of Attolia's title is Attolis, and Eugenides mentions that one of his grandfathers "was Eddis," and the King of Sounis is likewise Sounis, I'd guess that in this world, in the language shared by our three little coastal countries "--is" is a masculine ending, "--ia" a feminine one. Which has two interesting implications: 1. that the Queen of Eddis, either by some Eddisian tradition or by her own choice, has taken a masculine name, and 2. that Attolia is and presumably has long been a country where it is the queen and not the king who is, on some level, the embodiment of the nation.
Which makes me think of Shakespeare, but that's probably its own post.