Collective Nouns

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Bells in groups are a peal. Jokers form a deck. Sherlocks come in shelves. We have just decided that more than one Miles, if we get around to having such a marvel onscreen, would be a league, because I'm hilarious. What would be good collective nouns for other templates?
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Edit: To get slightly obscure...
Spoilers about future templates
I think you get a stack of JokerSherlocks, because you can stack a deck and a collection of bookshelves in a library is known as 'the stacks'.
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Gaëls (forthcoming adorable knight in Thalassa) come in bouquets.
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A Pantheon of Olympians?
Sorry for my bad english

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Not strictly speaking template names, but the children of any particular Bell tend to have a collective noun. Rose's are rosebuds, Angela's are cherubs, and I think Glass's are beads? I might be forgetting some, but they're generally adorable.
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I feel that Elspeths should be named after something voice or honesty related despite being so few...

Tonies... "Armory"??
Sorry for my bad english

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Tonies might be a flock or a fleet, since some of them can fly... I'm not sure. I don't know if they'd go for armory, or arsenal, which also occurred to me.
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Oraanu wrote:Not strictly speaking template names, but the children of any particular Bell tend to have a collective noun. Rose's are rosebuds, Angela's are cherubs, and I think Glass's are beads? I might be forgetting some, but they're generally adorable.
There's a spreadsheet item for this in the master sheet. Rosebuds, cherubs, and beads are the only ones in common use, and we're not sure we like most of the others but some of the firmer prospective terms if further Bells acquire collections of children include "starlings" (Stella), "ringlets" (Pattern), and "blessings" (Kiri). Elspeth is a nugget, but there's only one of her so it doesn't come up.
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Maybe Ice children could be called "snowflakes"?

Also: STARLINGS!!RINGLETS!!!!BLESSINGS!!!! <3
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I believe the correct collective noun for Zevs is an "orgy".
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Hahahahagaha.
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