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

Well, the only thing I can think of is "azot", meaning nitrogen, because that is one of the primary ingredients of living soil, especially in how plants draw it from the ground for metabolic purposes, but it's both too close to "azoth", and really silly.

I have to agree with you in how it sounded silly. After some more reading, I think I would settle on Aur; it's 'mud' in Icelandic, and sounds very close to gold in Latin. To English speakers the earthiness might not be conveyed fully, sadly, but it's short enough a term that it's reasonable as a word that got conceived early on (and tied with the fundamental concept of magic in my setting).

edited 7th Aug '15 1:53:25 AM by FlowingCotton

I need a good name for a bioweapon project whose "products" are essentially quasi-undead psychically-linked living weapons, each of which is code-named after a mythological deity or demon and can be associated with a particular Deadly Sin (The Leader, for example, is associated with Pride, while The Dragon is associated with Wrath because he's much more physically powerful than his Hive Queen of a leader, though totally a case of Dumb Muscle^note And the for record, the Hive Queen in question actually has many Pet the Dog moments with The Dragon, lamenting the mental disability that was forced upon him.).

Yes, this was inspired by Resident Evil.

edited 7th Aug '15 5:48:22 AM by MarqFJA

"Pandora" too cliché for you?

... Actually, that works as a kind of obscuring code name that makes it sound innocuous to outsiders, while being an essentially truthful descriptor of one important aspect of the project's intended results (Pandora translates to "all-gifted").

The creatures themselves I've taken to calling "Nephilim".

Trying to find a name for a classification of creature Immune to Fate. All I've got so far is amoíra, which I am reasonably certain means "no-fate" in Greek. But even if that's correct, I'm not sure it rolls off the tongue correctly.

The Fateless.

The Unwritten.

The Sadamen (from Jap. "Sadame").

The Freed. (...Yuke, Yuke, Duke Freed...)

edited 14th Aug '15 9:30:39 AM by DeusDenuo

The Defiant

The Unbound

The Unchained

The Ascendant

The Transcendent

Hey guys what would be a good name for a project to clone people to create Artificial Mages?

A name for the original Moon Rabbit who fled down to Earth because of the Astral Paragon of the Moon drove her away, and now she makes medicine for a living?

The mages are more like Magic Super Soldiers really.

edited 18th Aug '15 6:54:24 PM by SkyHavenPath13

The Sorcerer's Apprentice Project? Or simply The Apprentice Project? The Made Mage Project?

Idk all of those sound dumb, I'm sorry.

Does anyone know another good name for the Elixir of Life. Preferably something with Arabic origins, as I'm using Islamic alchemy as the base for the modern alchemy of my universe? Also a name for an elixir that makes a person more intelligent? I don't know, I can't find anything that works.

Re: Moon Rabbit
How blatant/subtle do you want the name to be? I'm mean Sailor Moon's name is almost literally the same as the Japanese term for the Moon Rabbit.

Re: Elixer of Life
From the wikipedia page I got a two existing Middle Eastern names for it: Aab-i-Hayat (آب حیات) and Aab-Haiwan both Persian meaning "Water of Life". Sorry, can't think of one for intelligence.

Subtle enough that the more attentive audience will realize that it's the Moon Rabbit, as in the very first one from the myths, in the form of a Bunny Girl. Of course, my series is a completely constructed world, taking liberally from various myths with original gods I came up with.

And yes I realize my first statement is an oxymoron.

What kind of impression/ring/whatever does the name "Keegan Drake" give?

Sounds like a knight or an adventurer. That, or a noble free spirit kind of guy. I have a character named Kegan, but with just one 'e'.

edited 22nd Aug '15 6:30:34 AM by electronic-tragedy

Oh man...that's the exactly opposite of the character. XD

He's a captain of a military force that is designed to contain or hunt down illegal aliens and known for almost brutal level of pragmatism and lack of sense of humor. XD

The last name is good, it's just I'm a bit biased on the first name (the spoiler says so). It just doesn't sound threatening to me. Of course, someone else might get a different feel from it.

Does the name "Renae Veronica Whitman" sound like a name you wouldn't find out of place on an Intrepid Reporter of mixed racial heritage?

Sounds like a name for a reporter living in a comic book.

Go for it.

To be fair, I just derived it from the names of April O'Neil's voice actresses.

edited 22nd Aug '15 8:55:33 AM by MarqFJA

What would be a good name for a goddess who had domain over beginnings and transitions, sort of like Janus from Roman Mythology. But I don't want a name related to Janus, mind you.

Try a name based on the first letter of an alphabet (Aleph, Alpha, etc.) or maybe "Genesis" (first book of the bible, used in scientific terms about creation as well as other words such as neogenesis. The term does mean "beginning")

I need a name for a certain type of people who are reality warpers.

Something with "trans" part (Greek from 'across'), "apo" ('changed'), "vic"/"fict"/"fig" (Latin for 'change') or of course "mod" or "mut", although those two may be too obvious.

Figuera? Apomodia? Mut? Depends what naming convention you go for.

Shifter, Reprogrammer, Rewriter, Changer, Maker, Creator, Manipulator, simply Warper

If they are slightly eccentric call them Spinner (can also mean screwball in German)

edited 30th Aug '15 2:43:03 PM by Kiefen

The unobservables. Because they simply rewrite reality to not have been observed to be rewriting reality in the first place.