Need some naming advice for self made ideologies

Started by Ouroboros, October 15, 2021, 10:46:12 AM

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Ouroboros

I have a few ideologies I want to play but I struggle naming them. Any creative people that could help?
Thing is I got the core roleplaying ideas set, but find it so hard to give them cool and fitting names.
 
1) Transhuman, Tunneler, Collectivist, Supremacy. 
 
These are existential nihilists that seeks to commit their life to technology in hopes of one day discovering technology that could end the universe. Though they see everything as meaningless and pointless, they want to suffer existence in order to end existence.

It was supposed to just be Nihilism, nihilistic, nihilist. But these don't really cover the extinction goal. So I need an affix to Nihilist that implies this ideology. I wrote "Extinction Nihilism" but it kinda don't roll off the tongue as well as I hoped. Something-Nihilism. Could also be a suffix. Like - Nihilistic Doomsday Cult. But that feels too long. Like cramming too much in there. I want something shorter. Nihil Fata (Latin for no fate) is my current one but not satisfied. I struggle with naming the titles. Moral guide was Futility Guide/priest, or indoctrinator. Leader title: Null Tyrant.
 
2) The next one is Transhuman cannibal high life supremacy. Where a Technocratic elite worships Archotechs by rejecting humanity and organic life. Their goal is the complete transfer of soul to machine. Anima Divina Machina Doctrine was my first attempt at naming it (Divine Soul Machine Doctrine). Leader being a "Simulacrum Lord". The idea is that they fund their research through slave trade and drug sale. While dehumanizing themselves by eating human flesh. Moral guide being a Subjugator, and the plant specialist being "Slave Driver".   
 
3) Lastly Animal personhood, Cannibalism, +1. The idea is having a tribe who thinks they are animals themselves. They kidnap and enslave humans to feed to animals and eat other humans. They worship animals as gods. Making elaborate beautiful temples for the animals while themselves are living in squalor. So it's a caste system where animals are on the top, and they consider themselves servants. But here I'm at such a loss I don't even know where to start. 
 
As you can see I know perfectly what kinds of roleplaying themes I want. But where my creativity fails massively, maybe because English isn't my native language dunno, is coming up with cool appropriate names for these ideologies and their leaders and specialists. Any suggestions or help at all with naming is welcomed!

Ukas

You could use abstract names. For example, personally I don't care using isms so much, so I just call my animalist ideology "The Way of Bango" or "The Code of Bango". One of the relics is a thrumbo horn called "Tooth of Bango", which suggests the superior being is or maybe better was a thrumbo or similar large animal.

Ouroboros

Quote from: Ukas on October 18, 2021, 07:17:10 AM
You could use abstract names. For example, personally I don't care using isms so much, so I just call my animalist ideology "The Way of Bango" or "The Code of Bango". One of the relics is a thrumbo horn called "Tooth of Bango", which suggests the superior being is or maybe better was a thrumbo or similar large animal.

Thanks for the tip! I don't like the "isms" myself. I mostly prefer non theist ideologies and find them a bit trickier to name. Especially if they have multiple memes. 
 
Like an elite transhumanist raider clan could have "Tyrannical Oppression" as their ideology. But throw in cannibalism and ranching and then what? If you want to include those in the ideology - what? "Bionic Blood Cowboy Tyranny"? Ahh

carbon

Quote from: Ouroboros...what? "Bionic Blood Cowboy Tyranny"? Ahh

"Heavy Metal Cowboy"

Heavy for oppression.
Metal for bionics.
Cowboy for ranching.
...and cannabalism is an overplayed meme anyway.

MissFox

What a cool idea for a post, I suck at stuff like naming but here are a couple of thoughts...

Animal personhood, Cannibalism: The pack.

Transhuman, Tunneler, Collectivist, Superiority: The Unlit, bringers of the dark, wardens of the end, keepers of the apocalypse.

Transhuman cannibal high life supremacy: The lit, The lifted, the cult of accention.

I have no idea if any of these ideas are in any way good, they're just what sprang to mind at 3am