Timeline for What is the origin of the name Yan-C-Bin?
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| S Mar 16, 2023 at 1:09 | history | bounty ended | nitsua60 | ||
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| Mar 13, 2023 at 1:24 | comment | added | John | in Chinese mythology king Yan is the king of death/dead, and in Chinese the name would translate roughly to something like the "gorgeous humble visitor". so maybe he was having fun with the idea? | |
| S Mar 9, 2023 at 20:44 | history | bounty started | nitsua60 | ||
| S Mar 9, 2023 at 20:44 | history | notice added | nitsua60 | Reward existing answer | |
| Mar 9, 2023 at 20:27 | vote | accept | DMfiend | ||
| Mar 9, 2023 at 20:27 | answer | added | DMfiend | timeline score: 33 | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 12:39 | comment | added | From | @ShadowRanger Thanks, just my Warhammer 40k-tuned senses twitching, then. "Mag Uruk Thraka", and so on... | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 12:32 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | @From: Yan-C-Bin (first?) appeared in the AD&D 1E Fiend Folio, in 1981. Jiang Zemin would not have been familiar to Americans until he took over Chinese leadership in 1989 (he had political roles before then, but nothing that would have brought him meaningful recognition outside China before 1981). | |
| Feb 22, 2023 at 4:29 | answer | added | afroakuma | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 15:41 | comment | added | Hey I Can Chan | Yan-C-Bin should've been the earth archomental; then Smar-T-Reed could be water, Blon-D-Sue could be air, and Birn-E-Jon could be fire. That would've been (ahem) fantastic. | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 15:27 | history | edited | Thomas Markov | edited tags | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 15:19 | history | asked | DMfiend | CC BY-SA 4.0 |