Contest!

[Spleen]

Suggest names for the currency of Elemaer!

The winner gets a prize (the satisfaction of seeing their creation being used to buy alcohol in disreputable taverns all over As'nar)! <p>__-__-__-__-__-__

"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one's around to hear it, it was obviously the work of ninja."
-Darkknight

"Screw normal, because if you're normal, the crowd will accept you, but if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader."
-Christopher Titus</p>

[JasonAB17]

The fire guild could use "The Arse".

Fits with the whole worship of fart jokes thing.

[Shinigori V2]

The "Our economic system is a cheap excuse to use an RPG system"

It comes in demoninations of 1, 10, 15, What the fuck where you thinking, and 25. <p>

---

<div style="text-align:center">What's wrong with this ring?!</div></p>

[KingOfDoma]

Pips. <p>--------------------
Who needs lensflares?</p>

[Uncle Pervy]

The AW. <p>---------------------------

Your are not supposed to be reading this!</p>

[The Great Nevareh]

I've always liked the "Aurum." <p>[---------------------------]
"There is great disorder under Heaven, and the situation is excellent."
-Mao Tse-Tung

"I eat the talking bees because I am George Washington Christ"
-From "Bob the Ball"</p>

[Capntastic]

Casholas, or Groovitas.

In denominations of 1, 99, and 101.

[Kelne]

Let's see, Shinies, Bits, Corn, Lewt, Sanity, Teef, Bling...

I quite like the idea of the Bling, come to think of it.

But if you insist on a serious effort, I suggest the Wafer. Why? Figure it out and get a cookie. <p>KnightsofSquare: DarkLordKelne is a tomboy bunnygirl, jealous of the business successes of her 37 older brothers, she is pursuing her own business degree in hopes of someday initiating a hostile takeover against her brothers' corporations.</p>

[Spleen]

Shini: I changed the entire system. So shut up. <p>__-__-__-__-__-__

"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one's around to hear it, it was obviously the work of ninja."
-Darkknight

"Screw normal, because if you're normal, the crowd will accept you, but if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader."
-Christopher Titus</p>

[Vampire Jester Jinx]

Kelne made me laugh damn early in the morning. He gets cookies.

..............munny. :P <p><div style="text-align:center">

---

I rule the fanart forum with a fist of irony. .....I have nothing else witty to say. Or quote. I'm a sad person.</div></p>

[Molokidan]

How about Shrapnell? With an extra l for some reason. <p>---------------

"Well slap a dead fish on me and call me Molokidan!"</p>

[PriamNevhausten]

Bricks. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>

[FlamingDeth]

Bacon? <p>
<hr width="70%"><center>
This month's "Transformer of the Month" is Grimlock in a Santa hat! He's quite jolly.</center></p>

[Zemyla]

The spall. Note that the plural is still spall, as in "This will cost 150 spall." <p>-----
Do not taunt Happy Fun Zemyla.

<span style="font-size:xx-small;">I think boobs are the lesser of two evils. - Inverse (Pervy)
Dammit, Dan, I'm not dating a damn NPC! - OOC Will (Will Baseton)
Of course! Anything worth doing is worth doing completely wrong! - Travis English
Ultimately, wizards and clerics don't say, "Gee, I want to become a lich because weapons hurt less and I don't have to worry about being backstabbed; that whole 'eternal life' thing is just a fringe benefit."-Darklion
But this one time I killed a walrus with my bare hands, and I suddenly understood spherical coordinates. - KnightsofSquare</span>

Brotherhood of Elitist Bastards</p>

[Spleen]

Zem's the best so far - probably because it's the only serious suggestion. Nev's was nice, too, 'cept I know my Latin. Sorry. <p>__-__-__-__-__-__

"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one's around to hear it, it was obviously the work of ninja."
-Darkknight

"Screw normal, because if you're normal, the crowd will accept you, but if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader."
-Christopher Titus</p>

[Spleen]

Pervy: I'm not namin' my currency after root beer.

Nev: I suppose you're right, now that I think about it. So "Aurum"'s in the running, too. So are the other three you mentioned (not the one you stole). <p>__-__-__-__-__-__

"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one's around to hear it, it was obviously the work of ninja."
-Darkknight

"Screw normal, because if you're normal, the crowd will accept you, but if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader."
-Christopher Titus</p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=spleeninfinity13>SpleenInfinity13</A]&nbsp; at: 2/3/05 23:05

[The Great Nevareh]

Well, that's the point. Some of your Orderly ranks are semi-cannibalized from old languages. I just thought "Aurum" would fit.

If it's paper money, though, I could see why it wouldn't.

Other names I can think of (assign whatever pluralities you like since it's your game)-
Baast (might be stolen, but I'm not sure)
Khorah (probably isn't stolen)
Dapper (definitely stolen)
Pheank (probably isn't stolen)

You could also call them "Marks" or "Notes" of currency, since that what most paper currency is: A mark of value or a redeemable bank note. Says so on it. Up until the early 1900's (I forget when) you could exchange a dollar for a dollar's worth of gold or silver at a bank.

Or, you could take a currency that already exists in either reality or fantasy and spell wildly differently but phonetically the same.
Like:
Phrahnk
Doyshmaerk
Eehn
Euwahn
Leereh
Payzohhs <p>[---------------------------]
"There is great disorder under Heaven, and the situation is excellent."
-Mao Tse-Tung

"I eat the talking bees because I am George Washington Christ"
-From "Bob the Ball"</p>

[Uncle Pervy]

Mine was totally serious :(
<p>---------------------------

Your are not supposed to be reading this!</p>

[Capntastic]

I suggest the Florin, and the Guilder.

[JasonAB17]

The would be "A&W", not "AW" or "Aw".

Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=jasonab17>JasonAB17</A]&nbsp; at: 2/4/05 9:19

[PriamNevhausten]

How about you have it actually mean something? Credits means you have credit towards something. Gold pieces were so named because they were made out of gold. Pieces of Eight were divided into eight pieces. Marks effectively means credits. Pounds most likely referred to a weight standard of some sort of produce value. All of this shit has a name that didn't come about just because someone thought it should have a name; money is a way of measuring, a way of standardizing in favor of raw barter. The name should reflect that. How did trade come about in this setting? When and why was it standardized, and with what item(s)? These are all very important questions, because if you end up naming your money something then you have inherently decided a large amount of history of your world simply by so naming...and it may not be the kind of history you want. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>Edited by: [url=http://p068.ezboard.com/brpgww60462.showUserPublicProfile?gid=priamnevhausten>PriamNevhausten</A]&nbsp; at: 2/5/05 6:42

[The Great Nevareh]

Well, yes and no. The Roman currencies were somewhat arbitrarily named (Aside from Talents, which were next to impossible to use in day-to-day transactions), and I'll be damned if I can figure out where "Dollar" comes from, let alone "Yen," "Yuan," or any of the tons and tons of currencies floating around the world market today. Older currencies? Sure.

Edit for Priam: So "Dollar" comes from "Taler." Wonderful! And now all you need to do is tell me what quantity "Taler" stands for and you've made a point, otherwise Taler is just a semi-arbitrary name from which other semi-arbitrary names are derived.

One thing you could do is not really have a unified currency but different currencies minted by the different Orders- The way money used to work is that each bank produced its own money to be drawn against its own stores of gold and/or silver. That's where the saying "Show me the color of your money" comes from; not every bank used the same dye for their cash and so you might be able to identify the worth of a bank note by checking its coloration or how faded it is. Monetary policy is slightly tighter today in countries with hard currency, but some places still have the "each bank mints their own" idea. Really, the whole "unified currency" thing only works if everything is made of a precious material and only one group mints the currency so each thing is exactly the same size (doesn't work very well- people would file down the coins, use them again, and then sell the shavings), you have marks in a government or ruling body which will honor its worth if the note is presented (which is the bank example), or only the extremely wealthy or powerful ever touch money in the first place and everyone else kind of relies on barter and proper leadership for their needs (Like the feudal eras).

I could see the "separate currencies" thing working, with each currency having a name tied to the dogma of the Order that mints it. A currency might be stronger in areas where a certain Order has more pull or weaker in a more remote area.
Money is serious business. I guess it just depends how closely you want your system to mirror reality. Most of those suggestions has a "there is a central authority that everyone listens to" idea to enforce the single currency. If you don't really care about how realistic your monetary system is right now, then pick a name and be done with it, I guess.

I mean, you don't HAVE to mimic reality exactly. You don't have to mimic reality at all.

The technical term of the British currency is "Pounds Sterling," I believe. At some point in time, each mark was the effective value of a pound of refined silver, hence the name. I could easily be wrong about this, though. <p>[---------------------------]
"There is great disorder under Heaven, and the situation is excellent."
-Mao Tse-Tung

"I eat the talking bees because I am George Washington Christ"
-From "Bob the Ball"</p>Edited by: The Great Nevareh at: 2/6/05 5:43

[Spleen]

Priam and Nev win.

I think I like Nev's idea of having money be minted by the different Orders, though. Especially because the current era in Elemaer is marked by the Orders claiming territory where they are supposed to have more influence than the other Orders. I don't know, I'll have to cogitate long and hard about it. <p>__-__-__-__-__-__

"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one's around to hear it, it was obviously the work of ninja."
-Darkknight

"Screw normal, because if you're normal, the crowd will accept you, but if you're deranged, the crowd will make you their leader."
-Christopher Titus</p>

[PriamNevhausten]

For the record.

And as far as Yen goes, the etymology of that does not become clear until one understands eastern language far better than anyone here does. <p><span style="font-size:xx-small;">"It's in the air, in the headlines in the newspapers, in the blurry images on television. It is a secret you have yet to grasp, although the first syllable has been spoken in a dream you cannot quite recall." --Unknown Armies</span></p>Edited by: PriamNevhausten&nbsp; at: 2/6/05 2:02