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| Author: | Coldfire [ Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Advice on Naming Things in your world? |
Okay so far i have 2 worlds in creation Menmar-The good world Geshim-The bad world i've been having problems getting more Massive Continents than Islands and i looked at ur screenshots most maps there have islands up the butt and maybe 1 or 2 main lands. The naming is hard so far i have 2 Continents Madras,Argollas and well i am trying to get my world different from uo's and its quite impossible because the naming is hard so far i have come up wiht one dungeon Null. But Where do u people get ur names from? do u read latin for dummies or what? I went through a dictionary mixing letters for hours and have only comeup with like 4 names. any advice for me? |
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| Author: | KatZ [ Mon Mar 10, 2003 11:38 am ] |
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I mainly get my names from reading A LOT of books, and then taking the names I like with other names that I like... and mixing them together untill I get a nice sounding name that fits with my map. Or sometimes I just come up with some names off the top of my head (those are the ones that I end up not liking though  ).
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| Author: | Ryandor [ Mon Mar 10, 2003 10:51 pm ] |
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Try Here. Mostly character names, but there a few in there for place names. Let us kno what you come up with. 
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| Author: | Coldfire [ Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:19 pm ] |
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ty ryandor nothing yet |
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| Author: | Didymus [ Tue Aug 31, 2004 7:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Names |
Try getting hold of an Etymologists dictionary : this, normally, contains the origins of most English words, including prefixes, and suffixes. So you should be able to cobble together some Old English, or Latin, names.
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| Author: | aryaba [ Tue Aug 31, 2004 10:26 pm ] |
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Another way (my favorite) is to get a map of Wales...start using names you see on the map. Or for that matter, get yourself a good atlas, and just spend an hour or two looking over the maps, you'll find some great names. |
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| Author: | kirax2 [ Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:52 am ] |
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One important thing to consider is what kind of "feel" you want a particular area to have. For example, I wanted one area of my map to have a persian feel, so I started looking at Persia in an Atlas for ideas. Then I had my husband read the names of cities and areas to me and wrote down what they sounded like (which was generally much different from how they were actually spelled) and then I tweaked them here and there to make sure they were really different from the real names. Another great resource is NameMage: http://www.mapmage.com/namemage.htm The files it uses can be modified, so you can get names with a particular flavor. Finally, try using online translators. I had a mountain that was kind of brain-shaped, so I went to a English-Russian translation site. Russian for brain is "Mozya", which I thought sounded cool, so it's "Mozya Mountain". Good luck! -Janice aka Sparkle! |
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