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Bn Em wrote on Sat, May 7, 2022 04:15 PM UTC:

If we're talking prior usage, it's worth mentioning that Valkyrie has at least three distinct usages already: A queen that can also relocate friendly pieces, Bishop capturing as Queen, and a 3Dā€specific piece moving as Rook or jumping two steps on either kind of diagonal. Conversely Heroine (albeit perhaps due to potential Drug associations) is afaict only used by Gilman for a Hexā€prismā€specific compound

Fwiw, Gilman also uses Hero on that last page, and there's also a Hero in Hero Chess. Surprisingly, Gilman seems to lack names for the two pieces under discussion (Knight+Chatelaine/Primate, to use his terminology) though. I suppose one could suggest Catholicos for BWN, as a rank above cardinal that starts with Caā€ (for the usual extrapolations: Zetholicos āŠc), but besides the long and awkward Archchancellor (note the double āŸØchāŸ©) idk what he'd've used for the RFN

Pythia seems to be unused (understandably, given its relative obscurity); arguably it falls afoul of Fergus' objection to multiple ā€˜popessesā€™, as there was only one Pythia at a time, but as Jeanā€Louis notes, if we can have two Sissasā€¦

Imo Popess feels a bit awkward as a word, and I share Jeanā€Louis' reservations re unnecessary loanwords; Pythia, Valkyrie, Heroine, and Baroness all sound fine to me


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