What does Arcoscephale mean?

[lch]

Google came up with this:
http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/co...enchiming.html

Dynasty: Ming (1368 - 1644 a.d.)
Emperor: Hsi Tsung (1621-1627a.d.)
Reign Title: T'ien Ch'i (1621-1627 a.d.)

Following that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianqi_Emperor

[sum1lost]

I'm guessing that he may have named his reign after the myth, not the other way around.

[Endoperez]

I've always thought Arcoscephale meant "end (head) of an arc". This made more sense back when the current MA Arcos was the only one that existed, and there was no "early" Arcoscephale.

Wikipedia gives Tien Chi as "Sky Spear", Taiwanese surface-to-surface ballistic missile.

[BesucherXia]

Hmm... I have never checked the era names before.
It sounds logical now.
The emperor of Tien Chi had given his eunuchs too much power, who were responsible for the corruption of Ming dynasty and the "invasion of barbarians".

For the original meaning of this era name, it could be translated into something like "revealed by heaven".

(Technically speaking, Chinese Pinyin-language has too many homonyms, which leads to confusion even for Chinese themselves.)

[zzcat]

Being a Chinese too, I don't think T'ien Ch'i is came from "Tianqi", Obviously the barbarian king is Mongol (the Yuan Dynasty), Why use an era even later than LA to name the nation?

Perhaps it means "Celestial dynasty", "Tian Chao" in pinyin language, or "Gift of Heaven"("Tian Ci" in pinyin)

[Zeldor]

Many names here are just to be nice and somewhat influenced by nation theme, not to really mean something.

P.S. Where are you exactly from? I am in Xi'An now.

[Twan]

No no, names give very precise information.

Arcocephale = their head is an arc... an allusion to the fact mind mages are the only good ranged unit of Arco

Man = a nation of simple men, standing no chance against magic and gods

etc...

[Sombre]

Ulm - the sound you make when you're randomly assigned them in a duel against Arcoscephale.

[Dedas]

Anyone here from Ulm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm

[capnq]

Maybe the capital of Arcoscephale is an arcology.

While we're on the subject, does anybody have an educated guess on how Arcoscephale is pronounced? When I look at it, I think "AR-co-seh-FAYL", but my limited knowledge of Greek makes me think it's more properly "ar-CO-seh-FA-lay".