[Poll] Morcar vs Zargon : fight !

[sajungzak]

Yep. You don't mess with Zippy. Or Ziggy, Zowie, Zapp, Zippo, Zues, or Zsu-Zsu.

[knightkrawler]

Oh, I mess with all of those all right. Simultaneously. I'm the goddamn Morcar!

[sajungzak]

Oh, I mess with all of those all right. Simultaneously. I'm the goddamn Morcar!

Sounds like Morcrap to me. All shall tremble before the mighty Zargon!

[Goblin-King]

Zargon sounds like an oil company.

[sajungzak]

Kidding aside, here's some science.
Z is a perfect first letter for the name of a villain. Z is the symbol for impedance in an electrical circuit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary Definition:
\Z\ (z[=e]; in England commonly, and in America sometimes, z[e^]d; formerly, also, [i^]z"z[e^]rd)
Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet,
is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z,
which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a
Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian.

The letter Zayin is the seventh letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and it appears in a number of other Semitic language’s alphabets. By way of the ancient Phoenician language, the letter Zayin eventually entered the Greek and Latin alphabets, becoming the letters Zeta and Z. The original meaning of the letter Zayin is a "sword" or "sharp weapon," a "shining sword," also, a "brightness" or "light"; with the word "lezayen" coming to mean "to be armed" in the Modern Hebrew language.

Reminds me of a certain well known villain. Merriam-Webster has this on the origin of LUCIFER: Middle English, the morning star, a fallen rebel archangel, the Devil, from Old English, from Latin, the morning star, from lucifer light-bearing, from luc-, lux light + -fer -ferous

Here is an interesting site about the egyptian roots of the letter:
http://www.resurrectisis.org/Z1WebPage.htm
I'll copy and paste some of the fun stuff for you in case you don't want to click.

The capital (majuscule) letter Z represents hell or the afterlife in hell following death and the final judgment. The majuscule letter Z is a picture of Set or the Set scepter. Set, the unnamable animal with his forked tail, his scepter, and his reputation for evil is apparently the prototype for our conventional concept of Satan. According to the Biblical concept of the Devil, Satan was a "fallen angel." Set seems to have suffered the same fate in Egyptian religion. He began as one of the good gods and ended up as the devil. Before the dawn of dynastic Egypt, Set was a member of a venerated company of gods. By the end of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty, he was the personification of evil. Apparently Set lost his position in heaven through his involvement in the political power struggles of people on earth.

Falling from grace, Zargon turned chaos magik...

The Viking rune eohl-seeg (English Z), means sedge, and is tree mostly to be found in a marsh; it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound, covering with blood every warrior who touches it.

Za (English Z) is the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet and means an-nafs bil-idafah: Soul in relation to what is below it. (from The Book of Sufi Healing)

Zeta is Greek for Z, and means sacrifice.

Z is an ongoing Existence, which is very close to Non-Existence; the ongoing line which is. It appears as. It was. And it begins (cause, zero, zilch), or ends in nothingness (zap, close, snooze, freeze). Like all the dentals Z is linear. It is energetic and runs along a fast, smooth track. Like S, it intensifies whatever it encounters. It is also the least conventional, the least predictable of consonants. It's got its own agenda, and you can seize it and use it or else you can lose it. http://www.trismegistos.com/magicallett ... nants.html

Besides, Zargon backwards is Nograz.

[sajungzak]

Zargon sounds like an oil company.

Morgas for Mor-car lol!

Zargon Industries, the evil corporation, bent on destroying the environment and enslaving the populace. Dun, dun, Dun!

[knightkrawler]

So, can we just say Americans vote for Zargon and Europeans for Morcar, out of completely and utterly nostalgic reasons?
We should make that poll among people who have never heard about HeroQuest.

"If you were forced to choose a name from the following two for a sorcerer horribly gone evil, overseeing an ideology of undeath and chaos, which would it be: Morcar or Zargon? Zargon or Morcar? You have ten seconds to answer."

I am quite convinced what would come out of that. And I would again have to weigh American against European opinion, I think.

[Decipher]

I think all evil villains should be named Vader by default. You can never have too many Vader's running around.

[sajungzak]

So, can we just say Americans vote for Zargon and Europeans for Morcar, out of completely and utterly nostalgic reasons?

I dunno. drathe prefers Morcar, and he is from Canada eh. There is still the possibility of converts.

Gandalf is only called such by some, he had other names in other places.

Zargon, too, has multiple names. I actually like them both.

[wolfie907]

there are many similar and great evil wizard names to my choice zaltar, zagor, zaltan