God Complex

Place Names

Anglo-Saxon place names end in -ham, -ing, -stowe, -stead, - and -ton.

Viking place names end in -by, -thorpe, -toft, and -scale.

Burh - Anglo-Saxon defended settlement.

Kaer Lundein - "Lud's City" - London.

The White Mound.

Lunnd - marsh (Gaelic).

Laindon - long hill.

Llyndon - stronghold (dun) by the lake or stream (llyn) (Welsh).

Pen - Celtic signifier for head or hill.

Ton - variant of tor/tot/tote which means spring or rising ground.

Cockaigne - Celtic word for London.

Corr Leadership

Taoiseach = Prime Minister

Wolf Clan

Should at least one of the Corr clans from the Plains of Thunder be evil, or even part of the Cult of the Dog?

Corr Signs of Station

Dirk decorated with cairngorms is symbol of being chief of one's name, i.e., The MacLean, chief of Clan MacLean.

Corr Law

Corr law given in canonical texts of sacred origin and interpreted by an exclusive caste (i.e., druids).

Esteemed Individuals

Corr hold three classes of men in special honor: Bards (singers and poets), Vates (interpreters of sacrifice and natural philosophers) and Druids (science of nature, moral philosophy, judges, arbitrators). Vates will sacrifice a human for an important foretelling, stabbing above heart and interpreting the fall, the convulsions and the blood-spray pattern; Vates also act as priests.

Celtic Words

Common/Ancient Celtic/Irish/Welsh:
hill/briga/brí/bre
fortress/dunum/dún/dinas
plain/magus/mag/ma
sacred place/nemeton/nemed/-
ford/ritum/-/rhyd
old/seno-/sen/hen
white/uindo-/find/gwyn

White Plains/ Uindo-magos/ Findmaugh/ Gwynfa

Chief names: Common/Greek or Latin/Irish or Welsh:
king of the world/ Dumnorix/ rí an domhain/
-/Vercingetorix/ uer (over) cinget- (warrior) ríx (king)
Great Protector/ Anektomaros/ O.I. aingid = "protects"
king of horses/ Eporedorix/ rí echraide
kings of the world/ Bituriges/ ríg in betho
people from a foreign country/ Allobroges/-
the exalted/ Brigantes/ Brigit

beer = coirm
poet = bard
druid = druí
reda = chariot (in Greek)
driving, riding = riad
horse = marc

Drunemeton = sacred oak grove.

Felmac = student
fithithir = teacher
lánamnas écne = marriage by forcible abduction (appropriate for a warrior)
lánamnas totha = seduction by stealh leading to marriage (base and sinful)

O'Miureagain - Morgan

Tumuli

Early Corr in burial mounds called tumuli (sing. "tumulus), with burial goods. When Havgen's Tear fell, the tumuli began to burst open with undead, which undead often left the grave goods behind (a potential bonanza for adventurers during and/or after the pacification of the lands of the Death Lords).

The Corr soon learned that burning the dead prevented their rise from the grave. The Corr took to cremating their dead and placing the ashes in urns, which were then buried in cemetaries called "urnfields". Only infrequently were grave goods placed within the urn.

Family Organization

Corr are organized based on a family group of four generations, descendants of a common great-grandfather. This unit is the derbfine (Irish) or the gwely (Welsh). (Hindu version of this is the sapinda.) The wider unit was the tribe. Most tribes had an oligarchical form of government.