Feedback Wanted: Kailani/Dean Storm and Addergoole East ~ House Names

[aldersprig]

So, in Addergoole East (at least early-timeline), Kailani/Dean Storm has chosen to go with Houses of the Harry Potter sort.

I am thinking of having her (she is a very nerdy young lady with a serious academic bent) name them after the four/five classical Greek/Latin elements.

Thoughts? Brainstorming? Scoffing?

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

That sounds delightful to me :D Or... what if she did the Chinese elements? Which I think are wood, metal, air, fire, water. Somehow that sounds to me like something Kai would do.

[aldersprig]

I could see that....

[inventrix]

I like both the classical elements and the oriental elements ideas, but viability of other suggestions depend on "what kind of nerdy" and "which academics".

Other "sets":
- Video game elements (classical + ice, lightning, and/or light, dark)
- The four humors/temperaments (phlegmatic, melancholic, sanguine, and I forgot the yellow one and am too lazy to look it up)
- Zodiac, though that's probably too many.
- The four seasons
- probably others but I'm blanking atm

Also, the four seasons/four elements/four humours are all connected so they can be a three-for-one kind of a deal. Can probably be attached to compass directions for layout too but I can't recall the correlations. Adding the fifth element can be worked into some of these connections.

[inventrix]

*slight tangent*

If I were doing this, I would have four houses named for card suits; probably the tarot suits loosely translated into Latin. Each house would also be associated with the related element and thence color. I don't know if I'd sort people into houses via an equal distribution, personality profiles, or a combination of the two.

There would be a uniform, probably with a dark grey base and accessories/accents of the House color.

So. *thinks* I would probably have something like the following:

Thysli: staves, fire, red, east; "will"
Spathae: swords, air, yellow, north; "mind"
Poculi: cups, water, blue, west; "heart"
and maybe Sesterti for the fourth: coins, earth, green, south; "body"

[inventrix]

Ooh, or alternatively I'd name each of the Houses after the alchemical element associated with each element! :D!!

...except there isn't one for air. Darnit.

[clare_dragonfly]

The yellow one is bilious! :D