Topic: Names in Shadow World

[terefang]

btw, you may refer to http://generators.christopherpound.com/ for some inspiration.

[terefang]

i also made my code (cli) available under
https://code.google.com/p/langconflux/

have fun.

[egdcltd]

One thing I considered (way more time consuming) was going through all the books, making a note of every NPC name I came across, plus race or culture and sex, and splitting the names into pieces, then using those pieces to generate random names.

[Terry K. Amthor]

What cultures, or whatever, real or fictional, if any, have been used as inspiration for the personal names in the various Kulthean societies? I get a Dragonriders of Pern feeling from the Cloudlords, for example.

Sorry I did not initially realize that this might be directed at me, as opposed to general discussion.

Many of the early SW names come from a list that a friend (she played in one of my campaigns) gave me back in the 80's of names she said she made up. There were pages of them, and I only picked ones that sounded good to me and that I did not recognize.

I never read Dragonriders of Pern, so as far as I know that was not an influence. Many of the older names of course come from the Kugor and Erlin/Muri-elven vocabulary, which is in the Atlas. Others I simply made up, though with some idea in the back of my head for certain races/cultures preferring certain vowel and consonant use. Hope that is somewhat helpful

[egdcltd]

Sorry I did not initially realize that this might be directed at me, as opposed to general discussion.

Many of the early SW names come from a list that a friend (she played in one of my campaigns) gave me back in the 80's of names she said she made up. There were pages of them, and I only picked ones that sounded good to me and that I did not recognize.

I never read Dragonriders of Pern, so as far as I know that was not an influence. Many of the older names of course come from the Kugor and Erlin/Muri-elven vocabulary, which is in the Atlas. Others I simply made up, though with some idea in the back of my head for certain races/cultures preferring certain vowel and consonant use. Hope that is somewhat helpful

Yes, I probably didn't make that clear enough. So no clear references for most of the cultures/races then, just what sounded right?

Kind of surprised you haven't read any of the Pern books. Why I thought the Cloudlords might be inspired by them is that the names of the actual Dragonriders are things like F'lar, F'nor and F'lessan.