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06-15-2013, 06:59 PM | #48 |
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I can see getting my gargoyle names from this list.
Now - I need a good list of wizard-type names, and some for the human kingdom. Then, of course, I'll need to figure out how to flesh out the 3500-word telling into a novel. Last edited by BeccaPrice; 06-15-2013 at 07:03 PM. Reason: eta: forgot link |
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With regard to the gargoyles: you might think about mailing the author of that site, to ask if you can include the pictures in a glossary. For people who are reading on a tablet, they can actually see how the gargoyles look like.
For other names: try this. Advanced Dungeons and Dragons name generator, by Wizards of the Coast. Can be set to generate names for any combination of class (ranger, wizard, cleric...), profession, race, and sex. Name Generator If you search Google for "Fantasy Name Generator", you'll find lots of other options. I've been thinking of names for characters in my story, and was choosing names based on Greece, Russia, Iceland, and so on, but I think I may actually go for fantasy names too... I don't like "real" names of our own world too much in fantasy stories, I'm afraid. But that realisation ame after thinking up and writing 10 passages or so... Last edited by Katsunami; 06-15-2013 at 07:21 PM. |
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One thing to keep in mind is that names should be grouped. So all the names of characters from the same culture in your world should have a theme that unites them.
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That's good advice.
for my gargoyles, I have King Greywacke. Micaceous Gabbro Kimberlit Hornfels. I may include a link to that web site in an afterword. I like the name Stefin for one of the human characters, either the king or the cobbler. I don't have a clear vision yet of what the human culture is like, and I know that's gotta come before I come up with any names (prince, knight, king's youngest daughter, brave cobbler, at the least. And if I have a youngest daughter, I need oldest daughters too. And to plot out the romance between the brave cobbler and the youngest daughter. This writing of a novel is *hard* - I much prefer my fairy stories. It's not my fault that the gargoyles want more. |
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I have in the past just put placeholder names in until I come up with something. For example in Enemy of an Enemy I had the key characters named Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John (the names of the first four books of the Christian New Testament). Later I went back and gave them new names when I had them. That frees you to focus on the story. A simple find/replace in any word processor fixes them later.
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I could do that, although for me naming something is part of learning it's characteristics.
King Stefin would rule differently than a King Steven or a King Stephen. It took us close to a week after he was born to settle on a name for my son (of course, there were not only my husband and I in that discussion, but his birth mother as well, and she had... ideas for naming that were different from ours.). Also, I'm horribly reminded of the fantasy novel I read once where the male god and female god started out being X and Y, and half way through the novel wound up having those names reversed. No search and replace would have caught that! |
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I did that once. Its hard for me, because I need to grow the character first. Names have power, they represent things and come with expectations. Names like the famous Tim the enchanter only works because it was a comedy. In general readers expect (often unconsciously) a characters personality to match their name. So a "Rouge" would not work as name for a law abiding by the rules character, in general. A powerful creature/person should have a powerful sounding name. Of course all rules are made to be broken, just make sure you understand what you are breaking and are doing it intentionally (i.e. Tim) |
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