Thread:Krasiph/@comment-27025402-20160920190331/@comment-29310871-20160921175757

Beyond simply quoting more usages I don't have anything direct from the show that I could say is definitive proof that "The New Nobles" is a proper noun. However, I personally think the group, as a proper noun, makes sense based on how Matt and various NPCs used it.

When Keeper Yennen brings the "two remaining New Nobles" before Vox Machina, he uses the term in a way that signifies the way I interpreted it, i.e., as the formal name of a group. If you think about it with respect to time, none of the "New Nobles" are all that new to Whitestone. The Briarwoods took over several years before, so it doesn't make sense for people to still be refferring to anything that resulted from their takeover as "new". Keeper Yennen could have also said "remaining despots" or "former nobles", or a dozen other generic terms for the two, but he (and other characters) constantly used the term "New Nobles" to refer to the group throughout the arc.

While others haven't capitalized the term before, I think that's less of an indicator of meaning and more a result of Critical Role's content being delivered outside of print. There was no reason to capitalize because, as of today, there hasn't been another group of nobles that "The New Nobles" could refer to.

At the end of the day it's ultimately my opinion. The use of "The New Nobles" as a common colloquialism by the denizens of Whitestone is what made me originally think of the group term as being a proper noun. I think keeping it as a separate page makes sense since it serves to connect the various characters in a meaningful way that, I believe, Matt originally intended.