Kool Last Chance, Vulture Alt Names
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Two important updates:
1) Last chance to enter the Bohrok Kool contest. Ends this Tuesday at midnight EST! [Edit:] That's just a few hours left!
2) I want to do a poll asking opinions on the best mask name for (what is currently called) Vulture. See my previous blog entry for full details and discussion; basically it's a power that Toa consider immoral, absorbing escaping energies (esp. life energy) from recently dead in your vicinity. Vulture is the name with the most reasons behind it (such as the obvious vulture-like shape of the mask, Vultraz's name, and it's concise, plus it introduces a new naming style of metaphor). But that said, a lot of people are not liking it.
I'm NOT asking for reasons here. There's been plenty of debate about WHY they don't like it, but ultimately all of this is irrelevant -- without a good alternative, it can't change.
Several suggestions so far, but none that Swert or I think is "the one". So, please suggest alternatives. 
Be inventive. The best names will take the mask shape into account (IMO 
). We don't wanna do the poll till we have good options.
We're not saying we'll necessarily agree with the poll results. But it would be helpful to know what people think about this in general, or if the complaints are merely from a minority, etc.
For the record, these are the best alternatives so far:
Vulturation
Carrion
Necrophagy
Necrosorption
Leeching
Deathfeeding
Remains
Desecration
[update: That's eight so far I think are worth voting on. Room for two more. ]
There may have been other good ones I'm forgetting at this moment; please remind me (the discussions got very long and I don't have time for archeology right now ).
Another thing I might include as a second question is if we should ask for "The Kanohi Vultraz, the Mask of [insert new power name here]" as a compromise; and then we'd also ask Greg if it could be said that Vultraz himself was named after his mask, or something along those lines. That way we could keep the reference to vultures and to Vultraz himself in the Matoran language name, but use some other name as the English power name.
[Edit:
I think I'll arrange the poll this way, for the record. Three questions:
1) Should the power name of "Vulture" be kept?
-Yes, keep "Mask of Vulture"
-No, use "Mask of [insert alternative]"
-Compromise, use "Kanohi Vultraz, Mask of [insert alternative]"
2) Which alternative is best?
-(ten alternatives listed here)
3) IF (if) the compromise of "Kanohi Vultraz, Mask of [alternative]" is used, which explanation of the character Vultraz is best?
-Vultraz became evil and used that mask shape, calling himself Vultraz after his mask as a codename and rejection of his past life
-Vultraz had the mask from the start (on Makuta Gorast's Tren Krom Peninsula), was named after it, and embraced evil because of it
This arrangement lets us show ten alternatives, not just nine with Vulture.]
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