And I was fine with the names in TGE because they didn't have meaningful real-world analogues, whereas I spent most of Melusine more worried about why and how the neighborhoods had names like Gilgamesh and...whatever the Spencerian one was and when that was going to become relevant and which set of associations or worldbuilding assumptions I was supposed to be taking from them than about literally anything in the actual plot, and they turned out to be entirely irrelevant.
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