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Aelioua-Name Syndrome
Tersa:
--- Quote from: Belial on October 20, 2006, 06:57:44 AM ---*Snippy*
Long white hair and green eyes you say O_o
How long is long?
I've written Lantan (one of my MC's) as having shoulder-length white hair and emerald green eyes before... he's not a mage though, he's more of a fighter.
*Snip*
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Long is VERY long. Think Zechs Merquise from Gundam Wing long and you've got it.
http://merquise.net/zechs/gallery/tv/tv38.jpg
Belial:
Psh, that's not very long, that's just a hell of a lot longer than lantans ;).
Cathy Clamp:
:D I have to laugh at this, because my co-author gets fixated on names--so much so that occasionally I'll have to scream, "ENOUGH!" I probably wouldn't have noticed it as much except it's MY name she was fixated on! LOL! Of course, this was before I knew her, but her first book featured a "Catherine" (also called Cathy and Cat.) That's my spelling. Her next book featured "Kate" (formally Kathleen.) Both of these books are published now. Then she's had short stories with "Cate" "Kat" "Caitlin" "Kathryn" and a couple of others. I finally BOUGHT her a baby name book.
It worked, but now she's switched to "Emma" for every other heroine... ::)
blgarver:
Coming up with names of characters and places is my favorite little treats about writing. I usually go by the meaning or origin if I'm not looking for too exotic a name. However, if I want total fantasy, I just start saying names randomly until something sounds cool. Then I write it down. A lot of times I'll base them off objects I see around me.
Here are some of my favorite names I've come up with in the past:
Characters:
Exeter Kane - vigilante cop that focuses on saving abused women, and he carries a cane
Vermiad Evenshade - cast out of his homeland to wonder the world, until he stumbled upon a league of assassins and made it his home
Corwin Channing - jack-the-ripper type with supernatural powers
Places/Things:
Aviagrom - the dragonmen of my fantasy epic
Aphanter - shadow creature from my fantasy/horror, sort of a boogie man type thing
Sanity's Rim - the walled and patrolled border between the Golden Lands and the Unclaimed, from my fantasy epic
People of the Scar - the psychotic, tribal, often cannibalistic dwarf creatures that live in a deep ravine called The Scar, just across Sanity's Rim
These are my favorites. The ones that really feel "right." I don't really remember the process I employed to come up with them. With Vermiad and the Aphanter, I took words that described how I wanted each to be. I wanted Vermiad to be a sneaky, remorseless survivalist that can kill without regret. I used the base Vermin and worked from there.
The Aphanter came from the word Phantom.
I like names. And just talking about this makes me want to write.
The Corvidian:
Occasionally, I take names from my ancestors, usually surnames, like,
Anderson
Shinburg
Le Fevre
Hunter
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