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Degman

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Tormana => Tormano
« on: 09 February 2011, 07:08:56 »
Could anyone explain how and why did Tormana become Tormano?
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Re: Tormana => Tormano
« Reply #1 on: 09 February 2011, 08:00:08 »
Seems like a simple misspelling that eventually evolved into the official spelling. We've seen this before with system names (Heiligendreuz and New Hati, for example).

In his first introduction to the BT universe (the Liao housebook), he was consistently spelled Tormana. The same spelling persists in Shrapnel (the only source really featuring him in-depth as a protagonist), the 20 Year Update and the 4th Succession War Military Atlas (both volumes).

He's spelled Tormano in Brush Wars, in the CCG.

In Assumption of Risk (the EARC copy supplied by BattleCorps), he's spelled Tormano most of the time but Tormana creeps up at least two times.

Didn't check his appearance in the Warrior trilogy and FM:U because I don't have these as searchable PDFs. In summary, though, it seems the change in spelling crept in when Catalyst took over from FASA.
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Re: Tormana => Tormano
« Reply #2 on: 09 February 2011, 08:27:10 »
Quote from: Frabby on 09 February 2011, 08:00:08
Seems like a simple misspelling that eventually evolved into the official spelling. We've seen this before with system names (Heiligendreuz and New Hati, for example).

In his first introduction to the BT universe (the Liao housebook), he was consistently spelled Tormana. The same spelling persists in Shrapnel (the only source really featuring him in-depth as a protagonist), the 20 Year Update and the 4th Succession War Military Atlas (both volumes).

He's spelled Tormano in Brush Wars, in the CCG.

In Assumption of Risk (the EARC copy supplied by BattleCorps), he's spelled Tormano most of the time but Tormana creeps up at least two times.

Didn't check his appearance in the Warrior trilogy and FM:U because I don't have these as searchable PDFs. In summary, though, it seems the change in spelling crept in when Catalyst took over from FASA.

Assumption of Risk long pre-dated Catalyst, or even FanPro. 
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Degman

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Re: Tormana => Tormano
« Reply #3 on: 09 February 2011, 12:46:37 »
In Capellan Solution series he's Tormano, but in Shrapnel he was Tormana

Could be because of his sister Romano, though. With such names, I would be hard pressed to guess who is he, and who she  :D
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Re: Tormana => Tormano
« Reply #4 on: 09 February 2011, 17:20:31 »
Perhaps an particularly uninspired nom de guerre.
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