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

The Twilight?

If it was named by Britons (or a Britain-esque culture)?:

• Slough, Wales or another place known for being a bit boring.
• "This Place"/"Somewhere"/etc
• The Next Step

Alas, for me at least that particular word has been tainted for the foreseeable future by a certain sparklepire-infested book series.

Points for thinking outside the box but among other things the afterlife probably pre-dates the existance of Slough by a few millenia and Wales has it's own section of the hereafter (which they may call Annwn, the same way that they call Wales Cymru, I haven't decided yet).

The rest kind of sound like euphemisms, which to be fair is a problem shared by a lot of my attempts to come up with something. Thanks anyway though.

"Who cares what it's called, at least it's not raining."

{Krack-BOOM!}

"The Isles" may work.

I have issues with naming projects and operations within my stories, as well as titling stories in general.

I don't know what to name a project for research and development for unlocking telekinetic powers in children. The project also includes training the children so they can utilize their powers so that global corporations can use them to stop/destroy resistance forces (that are against their rule), as well as to not invest so much money in their military forces (usually PM Cs).

Take a page from real life and have different groups name them different things; as a bonus, different naming schemes for each one. The Russians, for instance, were and are infamous for giving nearly nonsensical alphanumeric designations to their military project. (Hello, GRAU designations.)

I'm not sure "don't come up with one name, make several" is all that helpful as advice here.

I still stand by the "random semi-common noun" approach though.

What would be a good name for a spirit wolf?

Hmm, are you hoping to tie this wolf to a particular culture? Off the top of my head I've got Freki, Okami, Amarog, Haquihana etc. Do you have a gender in mind?

edited 23rd Nov '14 5:42:32 PM by J.G.Crowne

I didn't think of him being tied to any particular culture. I thought of him as the ancestor of dog-kind.

My first thought goes to Isengrim/Ysengrim, the Wolf from the Reynard the Fox stories, but considering that he was usually portrayed as a dullard, perhaps playing around with the name could work.

Ysongraeme?

Remus or Romulus.

You could also give him/her a descriptive name like Hollow Paw... or Moon Moon.

What would be a good set of names (or collective name) for a clique of high school Rich Bitches (they're just background characters), who the Cool Loser POV character can't be bothered to tell apart?

edited 24th Nov '14 7:47:19 AM by peasant

Tam, Rikki and Hettie (as in Tom, Dick and Harry)?

Hmm... I like the Rule of Three approach. However, not quite feeling those names in particular for some reason. If it helps for context, the girls are meant to be posh, stuck up, British upper class types.

Last night, I had an idea of "Kinsie, Mimsie and, uh, Flimsy?". I don't know why but the names just tickle me. However, do they sound about right given the backgrounds of said characters? And does it help convey my POV character's dismissive attitude towards the group?

edited 24th Nov '14 4:04:52 PM by peasant

Well, if they're dismissive nicknames given to them by the POV character, then sure, but I don't see Flimsy being an actual realistic British name. Kinsie and Mimsy could potentially be nicknames, maybe.

edited 24th Nov '14 4:06:24 PM by SolipSchism

Yeah, they work as nicknames someone else came up with for them.

If it helps, "Hooray Henry (or Henrietta)"'s a pretty traditional British insult for an Upper-Class Twit.

edited 24th Nov '14 4:11:23 PM by Bisected8

Trying to find a name for spellcasters as a group who use Bond Creatures that give them access to powerful magic. Individual disciplines are paladins, druids, shamans, and the like, but I can't think of a good name for the group as a whole. Compare scientists to biologists and physicists. Witch and wizard are already taken. Thinking about just using mage, but not sure that works.

"Warlock", perhaps? I've seen that used for sorcerers who gain their power from deals with external entities, which may make it a reasonable fit here.

Otherwise, perhaps (and potentially replacing "mana" in the following with an appropriate term from your setting) something along the lines of "Soulbound" or "Manabound"? If there's an oath involved, "Oathbound", "Soulsworn" or "Manasworn"?

More simply, and especially if there's an element of summoning involved, perhaps "conjurer"—which has the additional bonus of apparently coming in part from a Latin term meaning "to swear".

I like those, or maybe just "Binder" ?

I need a good name for a Greek Christian leader who converts to worshipping the Greek Pantheon.

I need alternative names for the a fictional, non-Communist successor to the Commonwealth of Independent States that reflects it transforming into a more centralized political union to act as a rival power to a United Europe in the west and the Chinese dragon in the east, while also capitalizing on the increasingly declining overseas power of the USA. No revival of the Soviet Union or its ideology is at hand, though.

Does he keep his birth name, or does he adopt a new name after conversion?

edited 4th Dec '14 3:07:12 PM by MarqFJA