Chapter 168 - City of Frost
Luckily, we knew that names could be changed. Tracy had a funny story about finding out that tid bit of information. Nick had apparently named their Outpost something stupid and Tracy had to convince him to change it.
She never ended up telling us what he originally picked, but the name they came up with afterwards was Stormfront, as a play for the man's affinity. I didn't meet the guy, but from what Tracy told us, he loved his affinity and refused to let the Outpost be named something that didn't include it.
I wasn't as vain as that, I didn't much care for what the city was called. It didn't have to have Ice or Arctic in the name for my sake, but since the area we were in was currently a Winter Wonderland, it seemed fitting.
If one were to look back and connect the fact that we named our city after the area we were in, and then add that we were only here because of my affinity, then in some sense, the city was named after my affinity, but that was semantics by that point.
Still, I elected to wait on naming the Outpost and dismissed the notification to the side for later. I didn't have any names prepped, but I probably should have. My focus was more on getting here and starting construction rather than what name I would call it.
We would talk about it and throw around ideas before I finalized anything.
Still, people needed to be seen to for various non-lethal wounds and clean up needed to take place. As much fun as exploring the new pylon would be, that could wait until later.
"Good job everybody! Let's start on the clean up!" I announced.
Everyone seemed pleased with the outcome and I was happy as well. It wasn't standing alone against an army proud, but it was something to be proud of at least.
With some training and coordination, I could put together a decent force to be reckoned with.
After the cleanup, all of my family who cared to weigh in stood surrounding the pylon coming up with names. Some were good, while some were laughably bad.
"We should name it Icefall. The snow clinging to the cliff face kind of looks like a frozen waterfall." Gabriel said.