Pythia seems to be unused (understandably, given its relative obscurity); arguably it falls afoul of Fergus' objection to multiple āpopessesā, as there was only one Pythia at a time, but as JeanāLouis notes, if we can have two Sissasā¦
Imo Popess feels a bit awkward as a word, and I share JeanāLouis' reservations re unnecessary loanwords; Pythia, Valkyrie, Heroine, and Baroness all sound fine to me
If we're talking prior usage, it's worth mentioning that Valkyrie has at least three distinct usages already: A queen that can also relocate friendly pieces, Bishop capturing as Queen, and a 3Dāspecific piece moving as Rook or jumping two steps on either kind of diagonal. Conversely Heroine (albeit perhaps due to potential Drug associations) is afaict only used by Gilman for a Hexāprismāspecific compound
Fwiw, Gilman also uses Hero on that last page, and there's also a Hero in Hero Chess. Surprisingly, Gilman seems to lack names for the two pieces under discussion (Knight+Chatelaine/Primate, to use his terminology) though. I suppose one could suggest Catholicos for BWN, as a rank above cardinal that starts with Caā (for the usual extrapolations: Zetholicos āc), but besides the long and awkward Archchancellor (note the double āØchā©) idk what he'd've used for the RFN
Pythia seems to be unused (understandably, given its relative obscurity); arguably it falls afoul of Fergus' objection to multiple āpopessesā, as there was only one Pythia at a time, but as JeanāLouis notes, if we can have two Sissasā¦
Imo Popess feels a bit awkward as a word, and I share JeanāLouis' reservations re unnecessary loanwords; Pythia, Valkyrie, Heroine, and Baroness all sound fine to me