OT: What does "Inkpot End" mean?

Chazar · #1 February 17th, 2005, 10:50 AM

I know what the site does and I am happy with it game-wise, but I cannot make anything of its very name! What does it mean? Why is it naturally unique? Why does it spread disease and unrest?

For most sites their names give you some idea what they look like and what happens there in a fantasy world, but I cannot imagine anything sensible about this one! Is it there because the godly-map-drawer of the world ran out of ink while drawing/creating the world, and therefore the world ends at this unholy spot (disease, etc.)?

I am not interested in answers from a gamers viewpoint! I want a thematic answers and pointer to other settings where this occurs (google "inkpot end" yield only dom2-related hits!).

Oversway · #2 February 17th, 2005, 12:07 PM

I thought it was just an expression. Inkpot meaning black or very dark. A way of saying "dark end", which fits disease.

Vicious Love · #3 February 17th, 2005, 01:25 PM

Maybe it's some kinda euphemism for festering buboes?

Err... I go now?

reverend · #4 February 17th, 2005, 03:55 PM

Hm. This is one of the rare cases where not even dict.leo.org gives me an idea on how to translate it. Or give an explanation other than what Oversway already said...

Kristoffer O · #5 February 17th, 2005, 04:16 PM

The dark fens somewhere beyond the last village on the road. It is a place where the day has never dawned. It is moist and smells of putrecense and disease. Swollen corpses of lepers and staked wizards can be found under clouds of buzzing insects.

Or perhaps it is just something scribbled on a road sign by an old hobo.

Chazar · #6 February 17th, 2005, 04:28 PM

Ironhawk · #7 February 17th, 2005, 06:01 PM

hahahah!

PvK · #8 February 17th, 2005, 09:29 PM

Good description! That's about what I had thought it meant. A place name of some dark swampy place that seems to be responsible for deadly diseases. Creepily vague.

PvK

Daynarr · #9 February 18th, 2005, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Chazar said:

Well, you asked for it.

Chazar · #10 February 18th, 2005, 06:01 AM

Hmm, I guess it is not that I am entirely lacking imagination, but I thought that I was just missing something because of not being a native speaker...

So "end" is merely like in "Land's end" and "inkpot" can stand for anything dark, inklike. Ok.

Hmm, a pool with a dark liquid resembling ink, that never occured to me, although I think that I have seen such places...