[quote=@Vec]
[@Muttonhawk] I can help with the greek, if you want. :)
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That would be great, actually! What I was looking at was butchering the word 'automaton' in its capacity as an English loan word.

See, automaton roughly splits up into "operated by itself," so I wanted to fenangle it into "operated from within."

I went searching around ancient Greek for what I could bodge together and found "esoterica," which apparently means "interior." The prefix on that word is "es-" which is what apparently describes something being "inside."

In the end, I got "esomaton," as in "operated from inside." I think...

Now, ancient Greek and modern Greek are slightly different, but English seems to like loaning from ancient rather than modern. That meant that this whole process was mostly me flailing around in Wiktionary.

But anyway, I am more than willing to admit that I am woefully unqualified in ancient Greek word smithing, so please help me out.

As for endo/exo, that [i]might[/i] be more correct. It apparently comes from "endon," meaning "inside the house" or something. That in turn came from "en" which is a catch-all for "around," "on," "amongst," and all that, so I wasn't sure if it was most appropriate.

[quote=@Cyclone]
[@Muttonhawk]

I'm intrigued by Toun's new oath stuffs; you may find a rather unusual character praying to him in the near(ish) future >.>

Depends on how quickly [@Kho] will return to the Khollab!
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If you've got an oath that you reckon would result in improving things and a suitable reward, I'm all ears!