Scholarly Name Reference
also written Alastor
The unforgetting
Scholarly reference for Alástōr
Ἀλάστωρ
The name in its original Greek form. Ἀλάστωρ carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
ALASTOR
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Alástōr
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
alástōr.com → xn--alstr-yqa27e.com
The non-ASCII characters in Alástōr are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Alástōr. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
ah-LAHS-tawr · /a.ˈlas.tɔːr/
Derived from restored orthography (classical Attic values).
How alastor becomes Alástōr
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | A uppercase |
| 02 | l | → | l | Same | l same |
| 03 | a | → | á | Stress | Acute on a |
| 04 | s | → | s | Same | s same |
| 05 | t | → | t | Same | t same |
| 06 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 07 | r | → | r | Same | r same |
Why Alástōr is classified as Tier-1
The Greek original Ἀλάστωρ contains both stress AND at least one long vowel, and one historically dominant Unicode restoration exists. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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