Do you mean Godfrey as being more German?

I like Canden Burquet. And how about Katalina Fryst for the doctor?

Katalina Fryst - I love it! Has a 'smart' feel about it like a scientist would, believable, rolls off the tongue easily. She has my vote!

Katalina being a cross of Katerina and Catelyn. Fryst being a variation on Frost. She gets iced pretty early on, so the surname is really an inside joke for us.

I dunno I guess Godfrey is also pretty English.

Why not just leave it at Muench? Or something? I didn't know monks had last names I thought they assumed a name like the Pope.

Also I hate playing credibility police so much but:

I know and agree future first names will change a lot, but I can guarantee that in several hundred years people will still be named Johnson and Chang and Campbell and Shepherd and so on. Last names are immutable, for the most part. Maybe if this was 1000 years hence would I believe the altered last names - but 1000 years hence who knows, perhaps the naming system we have now is abolished in favor of something else.

But Canden Burquet is fine strikes me as believable then and now - which is good.

Martin Luther had a last name. He was both priest and monk.

I feel like a lot of people back then didn't *really* have last names, they just sort of had something people called them.

Like Johannes the Pious.

@Thucy - the number of names that were made up as people came through Ellis Island... New surnames have come along in the last two hundred years, so new ones should come along in the next two hundred.

And Fryst is an Indonesian name. There is a guy on facebook from Indonesia named Switen Fryst.

So Katalina will be half-indonesian then? Her father was Indonesian, her mother American?

I agree with Thucy though, why not go with Johannes Muench?

Why not Indonesian and Russian (Katalina being so close to Katerina). Maybe dad studied in Moscow where he met mom and then they both came to the states before Katalina was born. Or she could have been born on or near Catalina Island. Do you know how many misspelled names there are out there. I mean, just look at the urban community for some odd spellings like Shonna for Shauna.

I'm good with that considering Johannes is more German. Jonathan/John would be the English equivalent.

That's an idea, a Russian/Indonesian - got hired by an American research and development firm. Speaks English as a second language (ie with an accent)

I think we're 'trying' to go German with this, aren't we?

Yeah seems like it but we could decamp to England or France if we change the monks name

Either way is good with me.

I'm thinking maybe the monk wants to possibly 'stop' the burning of Joan of Arc because she was God's saint? Just a thought.

Well, in the future, I'm sure borders will be more open in the civilized world and we already have Russian scientists in the US and American ones in Russia and joint efforts (like the ISS and CERN).

Sounds good to me. So that's settled, Canden Burquet and Katalina Fryst, welcome to the story.

Huzzah! Now we just need to iron out the location, and with that, our event and Monk's name.

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I always go crazy when I get too many games going but what the heh! I'm there.

I'll probably end up with England or France as I haven't played either of them since I started here.

Just bumping back to the top, almost at the bottom of page 1!

Good call. Would hate to lose all this work.

Bump it on up

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