Chapter 14

By Any Other Name is the fourteenth chapter of An Idiot's Oddyssey.

Chapter Notes

 * Boote tends to Rose's wound.
 * Rose's past and motivations for joining Boote are revealed.
 * The Sovereign Empire is revealed to be a unified government formed by the most prominent nations at the time, hundreds of years ago.
 * Mason shows up to fight Boote.

First Appearances

 * Characters
 * Rose Bailey (Named)
 * Blossom Bailey (Flashback only)
 * Rusty Bailey (Flashback only)
 * "Grandmother" Bailey (Flashback only)
 * Weapons & Fighting Styles
 * Ventlock Firearms
 * Minerals
 * Singeous
 * Locations
 * Oasis
 * Mettle Works
 * Groups & Terms
 * Afterrealm

Trivia

 * The title of this chapter is a reference to the song A Rose By Any Other Name by Gerald Levert & Teena Marie.
 * The Bailey Family's namesakes are mostly derived from the band, Guns N' Roses.
 * The family gets their surname from the bands vocalist, Axl Rose, raised as William Bruce Bailey.
 * Rose Bailey gets her given name from the band's vocalist, Axl Rose, born as William Bruce Rose Jr.
 * Rusty Bailey, born as Rusty Hudson, gets his surname from the bands former lead guitarist, Slash, born as Saul Hudson.
 * Rose's weapons in combination with her name reference the band itself.
 * Both Blossom Bailey and Rose Bailey's given names are related to fauna.
 * Rusty Bailey's given name references a common problem in his line of work.