Eddis, Attolia, Sounis

Do we have a thread already where the names of the countries are discussed?

Because today I noticed this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounion

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetolia

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa,_Greece

Ok, ok, I know we're all excited to discuss TaT, but I want to go back to some Thief 101. During my latest re∞read of the series, I started to wonder whether or not Gen was given the name Eugenides at birth, or if he adopted it later when he decided he wanted to be a thief and not a soldier...

I mean, how did his parents know to name him Eugenides without knowing first that he was going to grow up to be a Thief? His dad sure seemed to want him to be a soldier. Do they just randomly name a few people in a generation Eugenides in the hopes that ONE of them turns out to be a worthy Thief? In "The Thief" the Magus snidely tells Gen that the current Queen's Thief is named Eugenides, and Gen snaps back that they (thieves) are ALL named Eugenides after the god of thieves. I suspect he said this just to throw the Magus further off any suspicion that Gen was the same person as the Queen's Thief. Because, if there are so many people also named after the god of thieves, how come we haven't bumped into any other Eugenideses?

Attolia/Irene tells Nahuseresh at one point that the Queen's Thief of Eddis takes the name Eugenides as a sort of title as well as a name, so although this is non-Eddisian hearsay, I wonder if it's true....Did Gen take the name Eugenides as a new name as well as a new title when he declared he was going to be the Queen's Thief? WAIT, for that matter, what if the newest Queen's Thief is female? Does she go by Eugenidia?

What do you think? Am I overlooking some passage where Gen says specifically that he was given the name Eugenides at birth?

Today is my two year wedding anniversary, so of course I was flipping through some pictures from our wedding album....when I got to the series of pictures showing our getaway car (which my family has always taken the decorating of very seriously for all weddings).

I just figured I'd share since I'm currently reading KOA and all things thiefy are in my mind.

Gosh, can anyone spot the MWT fan? ;)

Hey everyone! I've been absent here for a long time...(still digesting CoA), but after watching Disney's "Tangled" today, I had to come back and gush to people who'd understand.

I actually heard about this Rapunzel-remake movie here first, because someone mentioned it was a movie with a dashing thief, much like our own Eugenides. I missed it in theaters, but I've been DYING to watch it on DVD to see how thief Flynn Rider measured up to thief Gen.

(Let me break here and apologize if I'm just repeating a whole conversation that you guys may have had in my absence. If so, feel free to palm-->forehead and move on.)

Well, obviously, Flynn is totally adorable and funny and arrogant and dashing and he spends a lot of time running from people who are after him. Sounds familiar, yes? I mean, I was in love with him as it is. He even looked a lot like how I imagine Gen (minus the beard thing).




*sigh*

Anyway, the name "Flynn" is clearly a tribute to Errol Flynn, who played Robin Hood...another exemplary thief. I was content with that.

BUT THEN!!

During a touching scene around a campfire, Flynn reveals to Rapunzel that his real name is EUGENE! *screams*

I nearly peed in my pants! I mean, seriously, how can THAT be a coincidence?! Eugene, Eugenides...Come on!

Tell me I'm not the only one of us that freaked out when they watched that movie? I generally, don't get all girl screamy, but THAT made me wave my hands and squeal and everything!

All that IMDb reveals on the matter was that the hero's name was originally going to be Bastion. Why the change? Was Disney tipped off to OUR thief's name?

Ok, discuss.