The "What's a good name for this?" thread

I should have clarified that I wasn't looking for specific names — that is, names that are more about the group's identity rather than describing what they do. In other words, I'm looking for "generic" names that can serve as fantasy-genre equivalents to the term "supersoldier".

"Raised", "Exalted" (which has been used, I believe), "Juggernaut" or "Empowered", perhaps?

You should call them Aglaeca! :P :D

(It's a word used in Old English poetry, of unclear meaning, used mostly to describe violent, combative monsters like Grendel and his mother but also notably to refer to Beowulf, Sigemund, and in one place even the Venerable Bede, and a word which appears to be derived from it is translated "warlike" or "brave". My personal interpretation is that it's the Old English word for "badass".)

Danke schön! It seemed appropriate. ^_^

edited 26th Apr '14 10:31:02 AM by Noaqiyeum

I need a name for a Mons that starts with a basic frame and then have mechanical upgrades, body parts and other stuff added on eventually. They kinda look like pale, thin homunculi like creatures with small mouths and gray eyes. I'm debating if homunculi be itself is fine, but I think that'd be too uninspired.

( Also Noaqiyeum, nice Ashiok avatar)

What's a good name for oily otherworldly sludge spawned from an eldritch horror's attempt at creation?

Ichor

Primordium

Gunk, tar, peat, dredge, gooze, luve, viscoum, antidiluve, unrot, alien bionasty

I still need help with mine.

Hmm... The only real problem that I have with "homunculus" for your purposes is that it's perhaps a little too commonly-used. Otherwise I like the suggestion of artificiality and (initially) unimposing stature that the word connotes to me.

Thank you! I really don't want to name them "Homunculi" because, yeah, it's too commonly used/uninspired.

Does anybody have any good names for mine?

Like these?

You're looking for a good name for a pile of alien gunk. It's a bit much asking us not to be facetious, now.

Those are mostly just generic terms for sludge and gloop.

Precisely.

A nice simple name is perfect for eldritch horrors.

I'm looking for a name more fitting to its origin.

edited 2nd May '14 6:39:21 PM by BiggerBen

Okay. You're telling us you seriously want a simple-yet-elegant perfect name for Cthulhu's own oil slick, since obviously "glorpy gloop" or "carbosilicate amorph" or perhaps "the +5 Bog Peat of the Middle-Aged Gods" isn't quite perfect enough, hm?

If you strain very, very hard, you might be able to feel a pressure emanating from your computer screen. Do not be alarmed; that's merely the combined amusement of a lot of readers at your pickiness, and being able to feel it means you've got enough awareness to realize that, perhaps, what amounts to a pile of shoggoth droppings best dealt with by the Mythical Mop of Miskatonic doesn't quite deserve so much effort in naming it that you'd ask a whole community to pitch in.

And if you can't feel it, might I suggest some self-awareness classes?

I just want somebody to take this at least somewhat seriously enough to give me an answer that they actually think could work.

I gave you a list of names that I thought could work.

I very much appreciate your prejudicial disbelief in my lack of earnestness.

Like these?

Seriously Ben, the things Noaqiyeun provided were genuinely good suggestions. What you're asking doesn't need to be incredibly specific and complicated.

EDIT: That said, maybe I'm a hypocrite for seeking a different name than Homunculi for my creatures.

edited 2nd May '14 7:12:33 PM by DarkbloodCarnagefang

It's mostly just that the redlinks make it seem like he's entirely joking.

I am always entirely joking. I am also always completely serious.

Don't use the first, ichor is horribly overused and never for the actual blood of a god. You can use the last if you like but I use it to describe anything remotely shoggothy precisely because it sounds silly. Any of the others I consider perfectly valid, at least as starting points for an interesting portmanteau if nothing else.

I particularly liked "unrot". Visualise something in the process of being created that way... and failing before it gets there. :)

edited 2nd May '14 7:41:24 PM by Noaqiyeum

"Ancient Sludge" sounds decent.

If no one else claims bionasty, I officially call it for my personal insult.

Bionasty: A person whom should, by all rights, be removed from the breeding pool.

To use in a sentence: "Damn, that Julie Bindel sure is a a bitch of a bionasty."

If you really get down to it, most Eldritch Abominations have quite ridiculous names. The serious parts from the beings themselves. I mean, without any kind of context names like Cthulhu, Hastur, Zalgo or Slenderman do not sound scary. It is purely due to the images we associate with those names.

Cthulhu and Zalgo aren't really scary even with context

The thing is, if you try to make something sound scary just on the basis of what it's called, you end up with Names to Run Away from Really Fast, and most of the time they try too hard and the result is pretty narmy.