Bless you, Christopher McKee

You are a god.

Beverage break ends at 1:56:58.

Thank you!

That is great. Thanks for that. Upon looking it up I find it doubly funny that the Wikipedia page which explains why this was never actually her name is also using that name to refer to her repeatedly. While it was not her name, it is the name given to her by history and thus has become her name after all.

Also: The Sahara Desert (Desert Desert), Chai Tea (Tea Tea), Naan Bread (Bread Bread). This is a super widespread naming thing that happens the way Matt described. Foreigner goes "what's that?", local says "chai he (it's tea)", foreigner says "Oh, chai! That must be the name for this specific type of spiced tea". And so, the general word for a thing in one language becomes the word for "the version of that thing from/in that place" in another language.

Terry Pratchett sent this up in The Light Fantastic, one of the Discworld novels… there’s a forest called Your Finger You Fool.

that's his point. that irl naming is indeed silly and it's not unrealisitc for a capital city to be called capitol, despite what the person in chat was saying

I am italian man, I feel so useless watching this stream now

The city is basically round and on the coast. Each of the colors represents one of the Families that hold power in the city and where in the city they hold power. The light blue represents water. The white and other colors represent land. Think of the boroughs of New York City with each borough being controlled by one Family or another. Notice he refers to them as House (insert Family name here).

The map was grabbed from the game Diplomacy. The shapes don't really matter all that much and aren't meant to be geographic. What matters is what districts are touching what other districts, what districts contain power centres and where the water and city limits are. In short it's not the kind of map you would use to plan a route, it's the kind of map you'd use to keep track of who's in charge.

coastal city. districts abstracted into polar rectangles and coloured by faction control. circles in the district mark important districts

I have to say I made the same observation myself...

Even if it's not playing the alignment on the sheet that's still role playing though? Personally I don't think people should restrict themselves as being defined by their alignment. Plenty of people of play their character different than what they thought the character would be, it's part of the discovery proceess in rp.

Now that Judge is commander though, she is much more Lawful (commanding, authoritative) and much more Evil (power-seeking). I think her seeming neutrality derived from the fact that she was a follower/soldier under King’s command. In her lawful perspective/attitude, it would not be her place to question King’s orders - that is not what a good soldier does. And King is neutral good, so Judge probably seemed more neutral in light of that. Of course, it’s all sort of arbitrary. They are human after all and may not be ‘perfect’ role players (characters actions always align with characters motivations). I’ll return to my initial point though - now that Judge has usurped command, Anna, and therefore Judge is really playing up that Lawful Evil alignment.

Don't you just love multifaceted characters with flaws.