[Research] Questions about the Sith

[Darth Yan]

one of jacen solo's sith candidate names was taral. they modified it from a mundane object. And i honestly don't mind. If the world is evil enough and cool sounding it could work

[Darth Yan]

for the record i think "darth Abbadon" would work well. abbadon means "destruction" in hebrew

[Srelex]

I love the inability of EU writers to base the names on anything made up in a Sci-Fi fictional universe. Oh no, it has to be based on some evil meaning word.

There's Darth Krayt. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Krayt

Besides, in a universe that's generally lacking in grey shades, it's expected that the bad guys will lean towards being card carrying villains, as Tvtropes would put it.

[Krisnack]

Using Wiktionary I came up with the name "Darth Yeltecan" from the old English yfel tǣċan (meaning "evil teacher"). Yes it is a a rather stupid name, but I can't see how it's any worse then Dooku, and it's got to be better then the placeholder name, which was Darth Vector.

[Knife]

Using Wiktionary I came up with the name "Darth Yeltecan" from the old English yfel tǣċan (meaning "evil teacher"). Yes it is a a rather stupid name, but I can't see how it's any worse then Dooku, and it's got to be better then the placeholder name, which was Darth Vector.

They all sound bad; perhaps you should go in another direction. Look up various words meaning 'Lord' and change the 'Darth' to that word and pick a better sounding name after 'Darth'. You can lead up to it, or you can toss in a couple changes from X to 'Darth' and 'Lord' in the dialogue to cement the transition to X.

For example; I'm assuming the 'teacon' bit means teacher (yfel is too close to fel to not mean evil) so perhaps name the guy Deacon Smith (pick your own name). In one scene, refer to him as Deacon Smith with the apprentice deferring to him as 'Master' and 'Lord' Smith in the dialogue, and have Smith refer to himself as Darth Smith, your Lord and Teacher, back to the kid to cement the idea that 'Darth', 'Lord', 'Master', and 'Deacon' all mean roughly the same thing and are translated words into basic.

[Ritterin Sophia]

I love the inability of EU writers to base the names on anything made up in a Sci-Fi fictional universe. Oh no, it has to be based on some evil meaning word.

There's Darth Krayt. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Darth_Krayt

Besides, in a universe that's generally lacking in grey shades, it's expected that the bad guys will lean towards being card carrying villains, as Tvtropes would put it.

Well if we're including Krayt then I don't see why Talon isn't included with him, named as such because she was personally trained to be Krayt's Hand (Get it? Because Krayt is named after the Krayt Dragon and she's his Talon ) in aping of Palpatine's Emperor's Hands .

[Krisnack]

Using Wiktionary I came up with the name "Darth Yeltecan" from the old English yfel tǣċan (meaning "evil teacher"). Yes it is a a rather stupid name, but I can't see how it's any worse then Dooku, and it's got to be better then the placeholder name, which was Darth Vector.

They all sound bad; perhaps you should go in another direction. Look up various words meaning 'Lord' and change the 'Darth' to that word and pick a better sounding name after 'Darth'. You can lead up to it, or you can toss in a couple changes from X to 'Darth' and 'Lord' in the dialogue to cement the transition to X.

For example; I'm assuming the 'teacon' bit means teacher (yfel is too close to fel to not mean evil) so perhaps name the guy Deacon Smith (pick your own name). In one scene, refer to him as Deacon Smith with the apprentice deferring to him as 'Master' and 'Lord' Smith in the dialogue, and have Smith refer to himself as Darth Smith, your Lord and Teacher, back to the kid to cement the idea that 'Darth', 'Lord', 'Master', and 'Deacon' all mean roughly the same thing and are translated words into basic.

That's a good idea, and I might be able to work it in. It's just that I have a scene where the apprentice has an opportunity to get his own Sith name, so the 'Darth = Master' idea might have have to go, as the teacher would not want his student to refer to himself as 'master'.

I went back to wiktionary and I came up with Feleche or Felechen, with is better then Yeltecan, I think.

[Mystikal]

On average, given the size of the Jedi order, if you pick a random planet in Star Wars, there is probably no Force Sensitive living there- the Jedi had something like one to ten thousand members at a time with the entire galaxy to draw on.

Assuming a Force Sensitive exists on the planet, the Sith in question can probably find them without too much trouble.

I always thought that was a self-limitation.

[General Brock]

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He already knows who he wants for his apprentice (his future apprentice already has a rather big ego), the part where he approaches the person with the offer, and the training parts is what I'm having trouble writing.

Take all the stuff Jedi and Sith are supposed to know and devise a lesson plan as if you were a teacher or a coach trying to teach those things.

Also, what would be a good name for the Sith lord? I tried running the word 'teacher' through Babelfish (using English to Dutch) and I god the word 'leraar' which I'm not very satisfied with.

Leraar is too weak. It has to be harsh, with an evil bite to it, like Darth Torke (just for an example; a play on 'torque', to apply twisting force). I think 'torke' was used as the name for a swordmaster/teacher in the Last Renshai series by Mickey Zucker Reichert; whether or not it is a real world word in a Nordic language I don't know for sure.