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Old 02-13-2004, 08:12 PM   #158
Kransha
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Funny story actually...well, more complicated than funny.

It originated in a discussion with my friends about names of bizarre creatures. We had discussed already existent mythological beasts with weird names, but soon made up some of our own. We had a strange name for an aquatic animal called a Hsnark, which is a lot like shark with re-arranged letters. We were also discussing orc names and how to get them, combining black speech words and suffixes I had in my posession. My friend concluded that good names for orcs were verb titles like Smiter, Smasher, and Crunsher or some such thing. We then intertwined the two discussions, contemplating how our orc, Zhuzbluk the Crunsher, would react to being eaten by a Hsnark. Somehow, during this discussion, I realized that "A hsnark" is "Kransha" spelled backwards, which was awfully similar to Crunsher. Weird coincidence. For some reason, I've loved that name ever since.
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