Names

[Klearchos]

Hail
No offense but I believe that some of the generals' names do not stuck with their heritage.
For example, a general named "Midas Lakedaimonios" can't be "Korinthios". Lakedaimona is the region around Sparte.
The same goes for someone named "Midas Attikos". He can only be "Athenaios", cause Attike is the region around Athenai.
Can this problem be solved?



UP THE HAMMERS
Blessed be

[Foot]

It is impossible to connect a general's ethnicity to their name. Both ethnicity and name are random (unless they are inherited from their father if they are a son born into the family tree).

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[antisocialmunky]

Can't you replace the surname(what's rendered as the surname in RTW anyways) with a title like "The Conqueror"? What would stop you from using that thing?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

That's what is done with the Romans, now. However, that took like 6 months of work by dedicated people.

[Foot]

And that relies on a ethnicity system and naming system that are concerned with the same thing. For the Hellenes, the ethnicity system describes where they came from, their surname follows their family. For the Romans, the ethnicity system describes their family as does their surname. I think most Barbarian factions have it the other way round, both the ethnicity and the surname (through epithets) describe where they came from not a family name.

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[Tellos Athenaios]

And you can always pretend that (which isn't terribly a-historical either) your guy M. Lakedaimonios from Korinthos (which is what the ethnicity Korinthios says) is actually:

M. from a migrated branch of some Lakedaimonios family which happened to settle in Korinthos. So he is Korinthios (by birth) but called Lakedaimonios (family heritage).

[Atilius]

That's what is done with the Romans, now. However, that took like 6 months of work by dedicated people.

Would you believe it if I told you that jackass still isn't done?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Since you created it, I think I had better believe you...?