Phoenician> That set me down a bit of a astronomical rabbit hole. At first I wondered how some of the usual Shakespearian characters would react to having moons of Uranus named after them. I imagine Prospero was amused while Oberon was miffed that he only got a moon rather than a whole planet.
The next big point was on how gargoyles used astronomy. Most indigenous people used some form of astronomy across human history so I think it stands to reason that gargoyles did something similar or the learned it through cross-cultural osmosis not unlike how the Greeks developed their own form of astronomy from the Egyptians and the Babylonians. And considering how astronomy was most often used in navigation, I can imagine that sort of thing was pretty important to gargoyles since they're a strictly nocturnal species and can't rely on the position of the sun for things like time keeping or determining the East/West distance.
Another thing I thought about is that while the Wyvern Clan (and probably most gargoyles) never felt the need for naming, they didn't really oppose it either. I have a feeling that while they never felt the need to call the North Star anything special, just to teach others that the one that doesn't move always leads north, they adopted the human names for it sooner or later whether it was Cynosura or Dhruva or al-Judayy.
Matthew the Fedora Guy
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