Thinking up names is Serious Business.
Domino: I need help thinking up names for the Adevari settlement.
Domino: because corada sounds like a beer.
Adhira: She needs a non-beer related name.
Morgenes: ok, how about: gihness
Adhira: Mor-gihness?
Domino: Grylsch.
Morgenes: or: buhdlyt
Vanth: Pahbzt
Shalooonsh: Grylsch...
Morgenes: yes please
Xygax: Lesgihness, Morbass, Blactan
Vanth: High Nakin.
Domino: Xyngling.
Adhira: Ohhh Xyngling!
Morgenes: emgeedee
Vanth: D'Osekis.
Xygax: Never order a black&tan in front of an Irishman, also, if you'll pardon the seeming non-sequitur.
Domino: You guys are hopeless.
Adhira: Call it Hope!
Xygax: Hefvisen
Adhira: Then it can be like a soap opera town.
Domino: that's actually the best idea I've heard so far. but doesn't really fit their history.
Vanth: make it a 2-word name, like Gol Krathu or Vrun Driath.
Adhira: I like the 2-word name idea.
Shalooonsh: Grylsch-Schlaggah
Adhira: Mor Gihness
Morgenes: Moor Gihness
Domino: Looon, you're my only hope. I need two-word names.
Shalooonsh: Serious about the Grylsch-Schlaggah... or Omi-Yullara
Morgenes: Beh Eer
Xygax: Yager.
Shalooonsh: Gol-Thryzdu
Shalooonsh: (if the thryzyn have anything to do with it)
Adhira: Vrun Hope.
Adhira: It's an elven settlement,
Adhira: Maybe your delves!
Adhira: Vrun Elan.
Vanth: Dar Hopa
Shalooonsh: DOH... Adevari, right! Ha!
Morgenes: Darth Chad
Shalooonsh: okay, let me grind something out, gimme a minute, in scene here
Adhira: Or just Elan.
Adhira: That's classy - it has Elan.
Vanth: Hopa Vari.
Shalooonsh: Abi'situn could work (Dusk of the Land)
Domino: We're probably going to do away or mostly away with the (edited out), though.
Vanth: Elan Vari.
Xygax: Beerbelly
Domino: I want something that sorta translates into "we're tough motherfuckers, and we've survived the worst, and this place is our rock to cling to."
Domino: So, uh, fit that into two words.
Morgenes: kehgger
Adhira: Jager Meister
Vanth: Deh Waryurz.
Morgenes: Kanking Heroes
Morgenes: Serenity
Vanth: Deh Ayteem.
Morgenes: Mehk Guyer
Tiernan: The Chad is Rad
Domino: Someone duct tape Morgenes.
Shalooonsh: Jee eye Joh
Vanth: Bee Esgee
Domino: Dude. Then I can have an NPC named Jinx.
Tiernan: Koh Brawr
Morgenes: Bee Esgee Ray Zoor
Morgenes: oh, I know, call it Chuck
Domino: Elan sounds like a possibility.
Morgenes: oooh, or Bob
Morgenes: Planet Bob
Vanth: Bayoh Bob.
Tiernan: What are we making up names for again?
Morgenes: Degobah
Vanth: the Adevari settlement.
Tiernan: Like NPC names or what?
Domino: It's in the northwest tablelands.
Domino: nah, the settlement itself.
Domino: The original name sounds like a beer.
Vanth: the settlement name itself, it was Coruna, then Corada, but they both sound too much like Corona.
Domino: Corona. I mean, Corada.
Morgenes: Coruscant
Tiernan: Whatever you do, avoid apostrophes
Morgenes: Adevaria
Tiernan: Nothing worse that trying to talk about M'Rhgf'hgashs'hgashd'-smith
Vanth: that sounds like an Iron Realms game.
Domino: Planned to avoid em, yeah. Thinking of going with a two-word name though.
Tiernan: Helm's Deep
Tiernan: Oh wait, LotR
Domino: Everyone will shorten it to one name anyway.
Vanth: Ade Lehmon.
Morgenes: use a name generator, there's plenty out htere
Domino: Are there any "allundean" words that translate to "refuge"
Shalooonsh: yes
Domino: yeah, and they all suck, but it's a possibility
Vanth: there's an allundean lexicon?
Tiernan: Milliways
Shalooonsh: not a whole lexicon, but I believe refuge/safety are covered in the Sun Runner docs, if not I'll configure something
Morgenes: http://nine.frenchboys.net/country.php
Domino: whoa, morgenes rocks.
Domino: Definitely staying away from 'B' names
Morgenes: Utul Marsunas
Morgenes: Iteos Ursor
Tiernan: Nydia
Relleu: that was a weird point in the conversation for me to log in... nine frenchboys.net... definitely staying away from B names!
Tiernan: I googled "latin refuge" and got this hit:
Tiernan: Nydia : NIH-de-yuh : latin "refuge"
Domino: Neat.
Adhira: Wai Tangi
Tiernan: The Chronicles of Nydia
Domino: Good point
Domino: But that would be kinda fun, roll up a scribe
Relleu: I knew a Nidia in school, and I had a Nithia as a student
Domino: Write 'the chronicles of Nydia' and stick it in a library.
Vanth: Ombaal is the (info edited out).
Domino: That's a neat one.
Vanth: and Sejah is (edited out).
Vanth: alternate spelling of Ombaal in same docs is Oombaal
Shalooonsh: in game it's typically Oombaal
Domino: Actually, access to the d-elf tribal documents would be a huge help in writing the Adevari docs, because I want to pull in flavor from all of them, as well as from some of the human tribes, to make up one comprehensive whole.
Domino: A huge mish-mash of previous arm culture, shaken and stirred.
wonderful :)
Posted by: palomar at February 5, 2008 05:15 PMno wonder you guys couldn't keep the six month deadline.
:X
Posted by: DANCE COMMANDER at February 6, 2008 09:01 AMYou know, there is actually nothing wrong with having cities named after nouns. Not every name in the game has to come from someone smashing their head on the keyboard a few times and then adding a few more vowels for good measure. Free Town, Malik's Stand, Black Wall, Rolling Dunes, etc. Hell, just pull up Google Maps and see all the town names that are named after things. You could also pay homage to the past and have New Allanak New Tuluk, simply Allanak. There is a China Maine, Ithaca New York, and a New York New York.
I am just saying, not every single name in the game has to come from a random word generator.
Posted by: Rindan at February 7, 2008 03:14 PMI agree with Rindan to a point. If you're going to have these odd names, have a definition behind most of them. Make that definition easily available to the PC populace unless there is a reason for it to have been forgotten.
Posted by: Dalmeth at February 14, 2008 04:13 PMJust for the record, 99% of the names up there were a joke.
Right now, "Caruval" is the front-runner.
Posted by: Domino at February 27, 2008 11:07 AM