Help needed: inventing new titles for Kingmaker's political functions

[Sir Oliver]

After our party - Dië Stëppënwölfën - finally managed to establish our own People's Kingdom of Ulfland, we also decided upon various other national symbols like our flag (giant wolf's head with a crown atop it on the field of black and green), national holidays (Everflowing Mugfest is celebrated every year on the day our kingdom was established) and even a national instrument (accordion).

But now I'm thinking of how to rename our political functions. Let's face it, Treasurer sounds kinda boring. So why not call the guy Master of Coins instead? And, since our kingdom is a weird mix of aristocracy, democracy and a benevolent tyranny, we took a page from Andoran and Galt and named our king First Citizen. Spymaster could be Master of Whisperers and Warlord is SUPreme COMmander. You humble servant is a High Councillor but he likes to refer to himself as Kabinetmeister.

As for other titles, I don't really have much inspiration and I could use some good suggestions for them. Especially for the fun alternative to the title of "queen" as our only female player wants something cool-sounding for her character.

[Charles Evans 25]

On a humorous note 'Lord High Executioner' for the Royal Assassin?
Sorry, The Mikado reference there.

Hmm, here in the UK we have a 'Foreign Secretary' with responsibility for overseas relations sort of stuff, and we used to have a Lord Chancellor in charge of the justice system/judiciary. (I think in the latter case he just oversees things now rather than actually doing much.)

[Charles Evans 25]

Something like 'Wolfmaster' for one of the jobs which in theory involves patrolling the kingdom, making sure everything's safe?

I've been pondering the Queen role you mentioned, but can't get past the image of the 'Angel of the Revolution' in Jack Yeovil's Beasts in Velvet (perhaps I'm inspired there by your references to Galt).
Some sort of Angel/Muse title maybe?

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Oh, and if the official religion is Cayden Cailean (I'm guessing here from your tales of an ale festival), what about High Brewmaster for the high priest figure?

[jorgenporgen]

I can't stop referring to the Magister as "the Minister of Magic", and on of my players took the line about the general being a "popular hero" literally, so he's now "The People's Warlord".

Off topic: They also celebrate "Stagfest" every spring, where kids dress up as the PC characters and then chase (and beat with sticks) grownups wearing stag antlers.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Dudemeister. It's German for master of dudes.

[Sir Oliver]

Charles Evans 25 wrote:

Something like 'Wolfmaster' for one of the jobs which in theory involves patrolling the kingdom, making sure everything's safe?

Oooooh! Wolfmaster sounds awesome! 8-O

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I've been pondering the Queen role you mentioned, but can't get past the image of the 'Angel of the Revolution' in Jack Yeovil's Beasts in Velvet (perhaps I'm inspired there by your references to Galt). Some sort of Angel/Muse title maybe?

This might work great, because the PC in question is Bard. My best idea so far was The First Voice. But The Muse might work even better.

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Edit: Oh, and if the official religion is Cayden Cailean (I'm guessing here from your tales of an ale festival), what about High Brewmaster for the high priest figure?

You're right. My character is cleric of Cayden Cailean so I was all for some kind of Oktoberfest like festivity. Main deities in the kingdom are Gayden and Erastil. High Brewmaster sounds great, although, I was also thinking of Pimpmaster General, but that's a whole different approach. :-D

jorgenporgen wrote:

I can't stop referring to the Magister as "the Minister of Magic", and on of my players took the line about the general being a "popular hero" literally, so he's now "The People's Warlord".

Hmmm, that reminds me on the Communist term of "Narodni heroj" or "The People's Hero". I have to figure out a way to use that one too!

[Black Dow]

Very cool thread - some great ideas and great titles :)

What about Feindjäger [Feindjägerin for a female] - literally means "Foe Hunter" - could be the nations protector? Keep thinking of Inglorious Basterd's "Hans Landa" here

"...and do you know why they call me the Fey hunter M. LaPerdite?":)

Also like Land Graf as it sounds damn cool

All good stuff - pretty inspirational as about to kick off my Kingmaker campaign soon...

Love the idea of holidays etc... also looking forward to getting my players to mint their own coins as well

[Sir Oliver]

Here are titles we're using at the moment. I was also thinking of the titles for our deputies - various NPCs we use in the council when the player normally serving this function isn't available for our weekly game.

King - First Citizen

Queen - First Muse

High Councilor - High Brewmeister. My character - a cleric of Cayden Cailean - serves that function, hence the title. I also proposed that we build a brewery so that my character can take at least one rank in Profession (Brewer) and then hang around the brewery pretending like he knows something about alcohol beside drinking it. My deputy is Brewer.

Marshall - Wolfmaster General. His deputy is simply entitled Wolfmaster.

Warden - Commander of the Watch.

Warlord - SUPreme COMMander. His deputy is Commandant.

Magister - Magister Magi. His deputy is Professor.

Spymaster - Master of Whisperers. His deputy is Chief Whisperer.

High Diplomat - First Voice.

Treasurer - Master of Coins.

Royal Assassin - Executive Officer.