No ma'am, please tell us the story

No, but sounds fascinating. Sure beats studying the cold war in history lesson.

Since there's actually no *real* wars in the cold war, I assume you're studying the politics, which are entirely boring

At the moment we're actually dicussing the politics of the second world war, but yeah, politics is very boring. I'd prefer to do stuff before the middle ages, great cultures etc.

Are you going to study the battles too?

Hopefully. But knowing my luck, we'll probably just gloss over them.

MUAHAHAHA YOU SHALL NEVER KNOW.

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evillaugh wrote:Hopefully. But knowing my luck, we'll probably just gloss over them.

Ah, FuzzyLobster... Let us refrain from destroying the innocent child's mind with such horrid tales, aye?

evillaugh wrote:Hopefully. But knowing my luck, we'll probably just gloss over them.

I wonder what they teach you people out there in Europe about WW2, our history teachers usually just pass the conquest of European mainland, some little stories about the west front, and focus on the defeat of Japan. And the worst thing is they pass EVERY stories about the battle and just tell the outcome of the battles

We discussed in excruciating detail how hitler came to power, probably will have an outline of a few battles and move straight onto the cold war. :( War Stories, whatever would that be?

evillaugh wrote:We discussed in excruciating detail how hitler came to power, probably will have an outline of a few battles and move straight onto the cold war. :( War Stories, whatever would that be?

Read the book Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose if you want an idea of what the fighting was like - it's a history of one of the companies of the 101st Airborne, written by a historian from interviews of the survivors. Good book.

evillaugh wrote:We discussed in excruciating detail how hitler came to power, probably will have an outline of a few battles and move straight onto the cold war. :( War Stories, whatever would that be?

Well, for me it's the strategies being used, the movements on the battlefield each day chronologically, the commanders, and the effect of the battle to the war

Yes, exactly. But those bits get lost in the boring parts of the war.

I just came back to check my thread and somehow we moved from naming spirits to world war II what is this, one of you guys had better start coming up with names for spirits born in this era or so help me -

Wait, the bart universe only had world war I right? Okay, so WWI era names for spirits, whatever.

Ignatius? Constantina? It does seem strange that we don't encounter a lot of younger spirits, but maybe more recent magicians just suck at it.

On another note, I'm tempted to write up "A Brief History Of the Great Spam War."

FuzzyLobster wrote:Ignatius? Constantina? It does seem strange that we don't encounter a lot of younger spirits, but maybe more recent magicians just suck at it.

On another note, I'm tempted to write up "A Brief History Of the Great Spam War."

Those sound more Byzantine actually. I was thinking names more along the lines of "Alfred" or "Fredrick" or something. I suppose as we get closer to the almost-but-not-quite-modern-era, the less and less likely magicians are to create brand new spirits. Much easier to just summon an older one, isn't it?

Ben, John, or what about James. Cool, not so modern, and not so ancient

Jonah wrote:

FuzzyLobster wrote:Ignatius? Constantina? It does seem strange that we don't encounter a lot of younger spirits, but maybe more recent magicians just suck at it.

On another note, I'm tempted to write up "A Brief History Of the Great Spam War."

Those sound more Byzantine actually. I was thinking names more along the lines of "Alfred" or "Fredrick" or something. I suppose as we get closer to the almost-but-not-quite-modern-era, the less and less likely magicians are to create brand new spirits. Much easier to just summon an older one, isn't it?

I would have thought so too, but interestingly enough those are two of the ones I found when I searched Edwardian names (with the idea that magicians during the war might have selected names that they liked when they were beginning their studies).

I just had a thought though; would they want to choose names that their peers might have had? Could that be seen as an insult? Although I suppose everyone's magician names would be older ones because they're repeated. Gahh I need a reread, but I leant out my copy.

wrote:Ben, John, or what about James. Cool, not so modern, and not so ancient

Now I want to see how a convo between John Mandrake and John the Djinni would go.

Sam. John. Lucia. Elizabeth. Will. Clara. Martha. Rodrigo. Anton. Madeliane.
Modern enough for you?

What about Bob, Chuck, and Alex?

Chuck? Poor guy, with a name like that...