@Marq There several routes this could take.
The first would be a god(dess) of Justice such as Dike, or those associated with Law (like Athena).
The second would be referencing the panopticon
to highlight its omnipresence and omniscience
the third would be an ironic one, either referencing known criminals (Edward Snowden), or anti-authoritarian activists or thinkers (Colin Ward
)
the forth would be to reference conquerors (Alexander of Macedon, Napoleon) or Dictators (Napoleon again, Julius Caesar) which highlights how much control the AI "God" has over the internet analoge.
My final route for suggestion would be a reference to the Gnostic interpretation of God, as such names such as "Demiurge", "Yadabaloth" or "Sophia" would be apt (the last one is more of an ironic one as she is , AFAIK, the "true" god in gnosticism).
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 14th 2021 at 7:36:09 AM
Is it as a character or as a concept?
If the latter, might I suggest, "unborn" as a play on "undead"? How about "tiyanak
"?
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 15th 2021 at 6:20:29 AM
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"Remembryo"
A made-up term but hey, not all ghosts have to be based on something.
This creature haunts people's dreams (hence the "REM-" part of its name) and kills them there by giving them brain tumors in the shape of an embryo (which shows up on x-rays when taken)
If you can't find anything already made, make something new up.
Yeah, this is a pretty common concept across Southeast Asian folklores. The tiyanak is also known as the tuyul in Indonesia and Malaysia and the kuman thong in Thailand.
If you've played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, you'd also be pretty familiar with the "botchling" (poroniec) of Slavic mythology, which isn't a result of infanticide, but rather an improperly-buried stillborn fetus. All that said, though, what kind of name are you looking for? Are you looking for a sci-fi one like what TitanJump suggested, or something more culturally specific?
One day, we will read his name in the news and cheer.Hmm... Perhaps something euphemistic in the local language?
For example, a similar class of spirit in at least one Scandinavian culture (I think that it was) was called an "utburd", which I believe translates as "that which is taken outside". (i.e. A child abandoned to the elements, I presume.)
See here for a bit more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myling
An Unchild?
This could also be a pun, since "unchild" as a verb means to kill someeone's child.
@erazor0707: "Unbirth" already means... something else.
Edited by Wheezy on Jun 15th 2021 at 12:31:03 PM
Novel progress: The Adroan, 110k; Yume no Hime, 98k; The Pigeon Witch, on pause at 40k."It's a fetish that only exists on the internet" probably tells you more than you need to know.
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.![]()
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"House Failnaught" sounds fairly grandiose—it seems either like a boast waiting to be falsified or an indicator of epic deeds.
"Leraje" I'm not familiar with as a name, and indeed, I don't have a solid guess as to its pronunciation, and so I don't have a strong impression of it.
My Games and Asset PacksAgain its more of a hypothetical, a more for fun thing. and the first name is a reference to a goetic demon of the same name
.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 16th 2021 at 10:23:11 AM
Does anyone have a good term for the ability to create and manifest organic material—-skin, muscles, bones, nerves, hair, etc—-from nothing? I want to name this power Call Flesh, but that is already taken and given to a similar power in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter books.
To give some context, if it helps, this is a name for what the werewolves in my story do when they transform, since all that extra organic mass seemingly comes from nothing.
Edited by Swordofknowledge on Jun 18th 2021 at 10:30:28 AM
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Walllace
@ Titan Jump and Synchrondicity :
Overplay sounds good or maybe Overlay since that would I guess go along with the visual aspect of the transformation (a body building itself out of nothing, first bones, then muscle/nerves and so on until the entire wolf is present where the human once was). Is that what you meant by Overplay?
Pluripotency sounds weirdly like something one would find in a Harry Potter book. It's a good name, and I may use it for a non-werewolf aspect of the story. Heck, a scientist studying vampire cells under a microscope could toss it out there in regard to how they magically repair damage when in contact with human blood.
Edited by Swordofknowledge on Jun 18th 2021 at 1:27:45 PM
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. — Edgar Walllace

Edited by MarqFJA on Jun 14th 2021 at 5:32:56 PM
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