http://www.zalanthas.org/blogs/brideofson/archives/001412.html
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 [M40097]: 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.
Morgenes: ya, Hope died a long time ago
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.
Morgenes: actually looks like Hope didn't die, she just quit playing around 1999
Morgenes: *misses having Hope leave the world of Armageddon*
Tiernan: Hope has forsaken Armageddon
Vanth: make it a 2-word name, like Gol Krathu or Vrun Driath.
Adhira: Haha. That's great.
Adhira: I like the 2-word name idea.
Morgenes: how do you know if you're old staff?
Domino: Now I just need to make a character named Hope.
Xygax: Wow, Hope was a (class edited out)
Morgenes: you remember Hope leaving Armageddon
Shalooonsh [M40097]: Grylsch-Schlaggah
Adhira: Mor Gihness
Xygax: In the (clan edited out)
Xygax: Which explains a lot.
Domino: "Hope has entered the world of Zalanthas in the Gladiator and Gaj tavern."
Morgenes: Moor Gihness
Domino: Hah, that's neat.
Xygax: Hope is a (edited out) woman.
Adhira: She sounds spooky.
Domino: Totally.
Xygax: I wish my dumb cstat code didn't smash keywords.... I should fix that.
Morgenes: apparently Hal didn't think much of her roleplaying
Xygax: I just typed "purge hope", and the game said "Ok."
Domino: Looon, you're my only hope. I need two-word names.
Morgenes: Ok
Domino: *grin*
Xygax: And then I typed it again, and the game said, "I don't know anyone or anything by that name."
Adhira: Hope was Crazy.
Shalooonsh [M40097]: Serious about the Grylsch-Schlaggah... or Omi-Yullara
Domino: Hope was wild.
Morgenes: Beh Eer
Xygax: Yager.
Shalooonsh [M40097]: Gol-Thryzdu
Domino: siiiigh.
Shalooonsh [M40097]: (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 [M40097]: DOH... Adevari, right! Ha!
Morgenes: Darth Chad
Shalooonsh [M40097]: 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 [M40097]: 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
Domino: Perfect.
Adhira: Jager Meister
Vanth: Deh Waryurz.
Morgenes: Kanking Heroes
Domino: I'm seriously tempted to blog all this for the players.
Morgenes: Serenity
Vanth: Deh Ayteem.
Vanth: you should.
Morgenes: Mehk Guyer
Tiernan: The Chad is Rad
Domino: Someone duct tape Morgenes.
Shalooonsh [M40097]: Jee eye Joh
Vanth: Bee Esgee
Domino: Dude.
Tiernan: Koh Brawr
Domino: And then I can have an NPC named Jinx.
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 talke 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 [M40097]: yes
Domino: yeah, and they all suck, but it's a possibility
Vanth: there's an allundean lexicon?
The inordinately young-spirited Shalooonsh [M40097] sends:
"I'll fire you a list of good ones in a moment here"
Tiernan: Milliways
Domino: awesome
Shalooonsh [M40097]: 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.
