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@joy-caroline Girl, a Biblical fantasy sounds totally AWESOME!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!! 😀
So, what I do for kingdom names most of the time is take a root word that has a relevant meaning to my story and change the ending to pattern the ending of real country names. I hope this helps! 🙂
"It looks like a fairy world"~Meg from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Fall in love with Jesus@joy-caroline Two ways! One, I’ll look up ancient norse names and get inspired from those, or two, I’ll stare at my screen until something comes up. Sometimes, I’ll find something random (Take, say, a bottle of Aquafina Water for instance) and splice the name up to get something cool, like Finaq/Finaqua XD
(Also Finaq is not used as far as I know so if you like it, here you go XD)
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Ooh, kewl! That’s great ’cause then you know no one else has those names in their book. XD
Thanks! It’s def something I’m having fun playing with, especially since it’s based off the Old Testament (most of what I write is about the New). And thanks for the recommendation!
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Thanks a bunch, Kat! 😀
Hmm, sounds good. I’ll have to try that!
Oh my goodness, I love that method. Whoever thought you could take inspiration from an Aquafina water bottle? Thanks so much!
@joy-caroline You bet!! Glad I could help!
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@joy-caroline Ha. ha. ha. ha. #1 I’m horrible at coming up with fantasy names. #2 I usually use Fantasy Name Generators. #3 And if I can’t find one of those I like, I use Latin or Greek words to inspire my names…with the assistance of Google, of course. #4 A Biblical fantasy sounds epic!! I actually have one of those (ish) myself…and I’m toying with another one…so, yeah, I love that!
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Old Latin is a great way to get inspired. I’ve been looking at lots of Pinterest boards. XD
Thanks so much!
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@joy-caroline It is! And Pinterest is definitely great too!
You’re welcome!
Sure! Can you tell me the genre of your book and the personality of the character? I try to match the meaning of the name with the character’s personality.
This is one of my favorite parts of developing a story!These names are all so cool! I usually just stick with whatever comes to mind…hence why my character names are usually similar to each other or are based off someone else’s. But world names? I’m not too good at those. An idea I liked was from The Wingfeather Saga–the world in that series is called Aerwiar, because the first human there (I think his name was Dwayne) said “Well, here we are.” when he first saw the world around him. You could do something like that, using a name that sounds similar to a word or words that have meaning to your world’s history or something.
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Yeah, for character names defaulting to Pinterest usually works for me. XD But I’m not that good with world names, either. Here are the ones I have, but dunno if I’ll keep them:
Country – Kestra Maron
The Five Kingdoms of Kestra Maron
Aivathya
Desturnia
Tresfirth
Uxcuveal
Keomid
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