Forum:Noble Prize

I suggest we make it policy that all noble families be referred to as "House _________". Currently, there seems to be no coherent format for referencing nobles. Using the "House" prefix immediately lets the reader know the family is nobility or else an extremely important family of commoners. The "House" prefix would also be appropriate for commoner houses that are explicitly referred to as a "House". Just my two coppers. Boo Too - &#34;Go for the eyes!&#34; (talk) 00:11, June 20, 2013 (UTC)


 * Darkwynters and I discussed this not long ago at User talk:BadCatMan. My view was:
 * Unfortunately, noble families tend to have different names in different cultures. Some are "House Kardashian", others may be "Kardashian House", or "Clan Kardashian", or just "the Kardashians", and so on. For example, Clan Battlehammer and so on for the dwarves. Changing them to a certain style would lose the flavour.
 * So I think it would be best just to use the official names given in the sources, if they are given, or the standard format for the culture. Say if most drow noble families of Menzoberranzan are House Do'Urden and so on, then a new noble family called the McSweeneys ("very old established family") could safely be assumed to be called House McSweeney. If there's no official name given, then say "the Kardashians".
 * And so on. A lot of the noble families already have established name formats, varying by culture, and it would be inaccurate or confusing to try to make these uniform across-the-board. Like a House Battlehammer, for example. It should only be uniform by culture, like all nobles families of Cormyr have this name, and all nobles families of Menzoberranzan have that name. — BadCatMan (talk) 01:57, June 20, 2013 (UTC)