Darth Who? (Was: Jacen Solo: Darth-You-Pick)

Ack! And people complain that the Legacy names are bad....

Frankly, if I were to vote, although I won't, I'd select either Caedus or Paxis.

 

That is a huge sucker bet .

Here's another thought: how does the name truncate, meaning drop the Darth? Vader is very natural,Sidious alone works OK. Since this is somewhat of a habit, was any consideration given to using the name as a stand alone label? I said earlier I like Darth Acheron, but Acheron doesn't stand alone too well.
By the way, any teachers out there that had to take the Praxis test(s)? Maybe Paxis is an homage to one more incarnation of the evil Educational Testing Service, a truly dispicable empire.

 

I don't like Taral because it remines me of Darth Traya, one of my fav Sith. "there may always be a a Darth Traya" but there's no need to screw it up with a version like "Taral".

 

Well, "Maul" doesn't stand alone very well either, but I still think "Darth Maul" is a good name and "Darth Acheron" seems good too. That happend to be the name I voted on.

 

Okay so how then is Caedus pronounced?? I think if its pronouned (Say-dus),that might be pretty kool,i could live with that.

 

So, let´s say Jacen declares himself in the end of Sacrifice Darth Caedus. I think that 99,9 percent of the readers of the novel will be unaware of and unable to find out themselves those Latin links mentioned by some posters in this thread. So, how does the meaning of the name will be revealed to the readers? By some huge, tortured infodump in the novel itself? Or do they add a little explanation part at the end of the book? Or would they leave the answer out of the book altogether, to be revealed in Insider and in the starwars.com? So that most readers would never learn the meaning of the name?

So in my opinion Caedus is a bad choice for the name, because one has to use Latin dictionary to get the meaning of it, and because it simply is not ominous enough, like good Sith names are. Ok, it may be pronounced like Sidious, but how many people know that without someone telling it to them? Caedus is just too complicated a name.

 

These names show just how hopeless it is going to be to have DR make a decent book.
SOOOO I have an idea. Being that the LOTF is hopeless i vote that DR commissions a book based in 25aby right before the events of vector prime titled "Luke's Bad Dream"

Opening passage

"Ughh I had the worst dream last night mara!"
"What happened skywalker?"
"I dreamed that an evil group of space aliens came from another galaxy poisoned you, killed chewie, wiped out a bunch of planets, killed anakin, and because anakin died jacen had delusions of grandeur. he had an illegitimate child with tenel ka and jaina became a bug hugger and she dated an imperial! Then jacen became a Sith Lord and he can't even choose a decent name. I mean what do you think my father would think? Darth Acheron? Darth Caedus? Darth Taral? (WTF) Darth Judiciary Branch? Darth Paxis? Father would have been disappointed. He should have taken Darth Nazi! Oh an ben was the biggest loser. he had no spine it was upsetting. oh mara it was horrible "=/
"there there farmboy, don't forget this retcon of a book has ben being born right after we come back from the unknown reasons and we're blessed with another child!" they won't be wusses."


I digressed but in keeping with DR's making luke look bad, jacen's sith names are upsetting. Darth Nazi. hehehe see tat woudl be pure evil!!

 

i think Acheron sounds like being in ache .(sort of like grievous)dont see in greek in it at all
caedus, sounds latin would be pronounced by me kaeydus

Judicar , sounds like judikative or the judge
paxis, obviously peace also sounding latin
Taral. Dont have a clue about that .
My fav is paxis and caedus so far.

 

I still like the one I submitted better

Darth Immolare


Oh well!

I think I'll vote for one of either

Darth Acheron
Darth Caedus
Darth Paxis

 

I'm pretty sure it's Kay-dus.

 

I liked both Paxis and Caedus, but ended up choosing Caedus. I liked the meaning of Paxis, but Caedus sounds much better.

 

VOTE FOR CAEDUS! IT IS MY NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-The Rebel Gungan

 

I already did. Congratulations!!!

 

i'm sorry guys and gals but i think all of these names are about as lame as a donkey with one leg.

 

i pretty much don't like any of the names........................


of course mine (Darth Exsultos) didn't get picked so i am allowed to be bitter

 

Thanks, I can't believe my name made it through did anyone else on these boards get a name through?

Caedus is latin and is the singular masculine form of the work meaning cutting down,killing, slaughter or referring to persons slain; blood shed in slaughter.

-The Rebel Gungan

 

Caedus is pronounced k-I-dus by the way or Kai-dus (long i)

-The Rebel Gungan

 

I voted for that one as well cause I really don't like the others. It is really the best of a list of names that aren't to good.

 

Overal it found the choices disapointing. Caedus and Acheron are ok, but personally i just couldn't see Jacen as 'Darth Caedus' in my head, so i voted for Acheron, mainly because i like Greek myth, and the whole Charon, river of hades thing sounded good for a Sith name.

Praxis would of worked much better than Paxis in my opinion, and i think the other two are terrible, i definitley saw better names on these boards than Taral and Judicar, Solus was among them, but there were plenty of others. A shame.

 

I think I'm going to vote for Caedus. I like the latin meaning very much, and while I know most readers won't immediately make the connection, it sounds the most sinister. The only problem I can forsee this having is that the first syllable is, essentially, "Cade." Why would Kol give his son a name that appears to be derived from his murderous, Sith Lord of a great-great-great-great uncle?

It would be like naming Anakin Solo, Vade Solo...

Paxis is okay, I guess. Acheron I might like if it weren't for the specific earthlike reference. I'm okay with using latinate words - it's all about the effect they have. I can believe that the Sith names are versions of words in an ancient galactic tongue so they're recreating the effect for english-speaking readers by using latin. But what? We're supposed to believe that Jacen names himself after a specific mythical river in an afterlife we've never heard of that happens to be analogous to Acheron (which, by the way, not even the most famous river in Hades...) So, yeah. It would pull me out of the moment, I think.

Judicar is too obvious. Nice in terms of meaning but terrible in terms of clumsy faux-latin, and I can't imagine Jacen as clumsy.

Taral...it sounds fine, but I don't have any understanding of what it means. It's too far from Betrayal to be obvious and kind of reminds me of the name "Harold." Which is, among my friends, the unofficial first name of Grand Moff Harold Tarkin. Because it really, really should be.

 

That name really doesn't make sense. Maybe someone just entered something they thought sounded good?

Oh, and at Harold Tarkin.

 

It's not cade-us its kai-dus (long I)



-The Rebel Gungan

 

Quite frankly I'm a bit dissapointed with the choices.

I thought mine was pretty good, it was Darth Varren, which is from a German decent (like Vader) and the root of the word means to betray or to be a traitor.... so Jacen.

But conrats to those who were chosen.

 

I submitted Darth Cain. The whole thing with Cain killing his brother. Jacen already is fighting family and one might just be to the death.

 

The only problem I can forsee this having is that the first syllable is, essentially, "Cade." Why would Kol give his son a name that appears to be derived from his murderous, Sith Lord of a great-great-great-great uncle?

Jacen would probably be the cousin of Kol´s grandfather, not really close relationship - and how do we know that Kol chose the name of his son? Perhaps it was Mrs Skywalker who chose the name? Perhaps Cade is named after his maternal grandfather or something like that?