I just wanna say that so far the game is amazing! And the way you use Greek words in it. For example the titles Kurios and Kuria( Κύριος και Κυρία) or the hegemony, eclectoi(εκλεκτοί). I am Greek and even I couldn’t have used some of these words in English.
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Thanks, @greekjohn1998! It’s always encouraging to hear that my liberal use of Greek words isn’t reducing actual Greek people to laughter or triggering their gag reflexes. 
And glad you’re enjoying the rest of the game too.
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Just saying the truth 
Keep up the good work!
The English language has changed measurably over the past several hundred years from the times of Chaucer, King James and Shakespeare, I can only imagine how much the Greek language with its rich scholarly history has changed over the past 3000 or so years.
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Believe me it has changed. For six years now I learn ancient Greek in my school and I still struggle with it. I mean there is a staggering similarity with how the Greek language is now but still despite that every single word that I use every day has its roots in the ancient Greek I still know almost nothing from it. I mean I could translate a paragraph or two but only because of the connections I can make to the new Greek.
@greekjohn1998 Out of curiosity, how would the names of the games and chapters translate into Greek?
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Here you go pal! @WulfyK my school teachers would be proud!
Παιχνίδι 1: Εξέγερση
Πρόλογος
Κεφάλαιο 1: Το Τέταρτο Καταρράκωμα/συντριβή as you guessed, English isn’t my native language and I don’t know the exact meaning of harrowing.
Κεφάλαιο 2: Παράνομοι του Γουενγορντ(it isn’t Greek)
Κεφάλαιο 3: Άγνωστοι στο δάσος
Κεφάλαιο 4: Κυνηγόσκυλα(it means hunting dogs) του Καραγκον(not Greek word too)
Παιχνίδι 2: Χειριστής- Καταιγίδας (in Greek we first put wielder and then the wielder of what, present example storm.)
Κεφάλαιο 5: Χάος και το Τέλος
Κεφάλαιο 6: Ο Χορός των Σκιών
Κεφάλαιο 7: Μία Ένδοξη/Λαμπρή Εποχή
Κεφάλαιο 8: Η Απόφαση του Άρχοντα
Hope it sated your curiosity 
except if you wanted me to write it with English(Latin) letters
And please excuse any orthographic or grammatical error as my dyslexia tends to make me write in gibberish 
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Ever since Fable 3 (which was a disappointment), I’ve always wanted to play a game wherein you’re a rebel whose goal is to topple a corrupt government.
I’ve even named my character, Che Guevarra.
Viva la Revolucion! Hahahahaha!
Keep inspired!
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Isn’t Assassin’s Creed Unity basically that?
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Haven’t played AC since AC2.
I got bored because most missions were repetitive.
I want a game wherein you actually plan things, strategy and whatnot.
Like this Choice of Rebels.
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So Assassins Creed Syndicate? 
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You must be an AC fanatic. Haahahah…
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Well, for either the rebels or the Thaumatarchy, celestial symbols ought to always be in fashion. I always had some sort of lunar association with the Thaumatarchy, since I vaguely recall Juno/Hera being associated with the moon and Hera the Immortal is of course the founder of the Hegemony. Additionally, if I recall correctly Byzantion (later Constantinople, the Queen of Cities and seat of imperial ambitions for the Greek-dominated eastern half of the Roman Empire in its heyday) had during the pre-Christian times something of a fixation of Hekate, a goddess who was again somehow involved with the moon, all manner of witchcraft and sorcery, and apparently also dogs. This led to a star and crescent symbol being associated with the city long before Mehmet ever entered its walls.
For the rebels, I was thinking that solar symbolism would be fitting. The moon and all that can be associated with all manner of darkness and trickery, but the sun has more of a sense of justice and honesty to it coming with the new light. Speaking of the new light, you know, a new day and a new order with the rising of the sun also works out well, and just about anyone can draw a solar disc or rays of light. There’s precedent for this in the Hellenistic world for this also (see the Vergina Sun associated with Alexandros Megas for an easy example), and of course that’s far from the only culture to venerate the qualities of the sun if there were to be a more nationalistic rebellion.
So, that’s where I stand. Something lunar (maybe with crescents?) for the Thaumatarchy, solar symbols for the rebellion.
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I would like to agree with @Protagonist’s suggestion. Not only does it make more sense it also allows for an actual visual representation of the symbol since it would only require 8 (I think).
Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. Golgot, your mention of the celestial helpfully got me reflecting that the Xthonic religion is really the opposite of celestial – it’s an earth-cult, all stones and dust and fixity.
So I’m thinking that the symbol of the Karagond Hegemony should be an omphalos – the navel or center of the world, which Karagon plainly considers itself to be. It’s drawn in its most simple form as a circle crossed with an X, but can be done in more elaborate forms with multiple crosses or spirals converging on the center. The X and spiral (helix) both have religious connotations.
As for your symbol, if your band has good morale they’ll let you pick the symbol, and otherwise they’ll pick one.
Some of the options I’ll take away from this suggestion-fest and write into the game are:
The eight-rayed sun.
A broken chain.
A threshing flail.
A bloody hand.
Thanks again, all!
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I also suggest an Eye.
In your lore, you suggested that in an alternate reality, Shayard could have been an empire and could have been the one who started the Hegemony.
In the game, the MC could plan to do just that if they want.
So an eye as a symbol is fitting:
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Since it has religious connotations. like the ‘All-Seeing Eye.’ If you don’t want to follow Karagond anymore and want to install your own religion, depicting a more powerful god is the way to go. And having a god who can ‘see everything’ is powerful indeed.
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It also has historical connotations, like The Eye of Horus. Again in relation to what could have been the Shayard Empire. Maybe Shayard’s symbol is an eye.
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It has a powerful image, like it’s telling people,
‘No matter where you hide, we can see you.’
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@greekjohn1998
Yay, thanks, that’s exactly what I needed.
@Havenstone If the band decides without the MC how will they choose the symbol? Will it be predermined, randomized or based on some stats like anarchy or ideological alignment?
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@Havenstone can you explain the eight-rayed sun? I saw the discussion on the use of solar imagery but the real life eight-rayed sun is a Filipino symbol representing the eight provinces that initially rebelled against the Spanish (I think). Even if it is a cosmopolitan symbol there are only 5 Contes in the Hegemony and way more than 8 cities so what is the “symbology?”
Golgot pointed me here, Vergina Sun - Wikipedia, and I liked it. A sun drawn with an emphasis on the rays is a nice contrast with the (newly-minted) Hegemonic omphalos, whose crosses and spirals focus on the center rather than going outward. But twelve or sixteen rays seemed like a bit of overkill. I don’t think there’s necessarily a strong significance to the number eight (cardinal and semicardinal directions, representing the ubiquity of the sun?) – it might just be how people in the Hegemony draw the sun.
Based on significant anarchy or nationalism if they’ve got it.
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And have we really added another thousand posts since Feb? The pace of the forum really has picked up from the old days…
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