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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 284993" data-attributes="member: 3887">Steal and make up...For a long running homebrew --13 years and counting-- I stole a few exotic sounding names for real world sources: The cities of Narcoriel {from a book on magic by A.E. Waite. Supposedly the name of an angel}, Orissa and Paradla {either Indian cities or place names}. An expensive resturant in a theocratic city called The Throne of the Third Heaven {from a piece of outsider art}.&nbsp; A demon lord named Gabriel --forgive the cheap irony, I was young...Other than that, the standard odd-but-not-too-odd fantasy syllables and phrase names: Lassivander, Mirovar, and Saroval {port cities}. Rexrelis's, the most expensive resturant in the known world. The Sea of&nbsp; Grass --grasslands, who would have guessed?. The Spiral and South Spiral Clusters {island groups}. The Harvest Plains --blessed by a Goddess after a cataclysmic magical battle that reduced a few hundred miles of surface to bacteria-free ash. Plus the obligatory lazy smattering of language-making. A handful of syllables to use as root-words for compounds. &quot;kel&quot;=thousand, &quot;il&quot; or &quot;iel' for sun/star, &quot;ra&quot; for water/life, &quot;ran&quot; for lake or ocean. As in Elias Keliel -- &quot;Elias of the Thousand Stars&quot;, a demon who once offhandedly threatened to stop the worlds rotation.Sorry, haven't played this one in a while, and I miss it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 284993, member: 3887"] [b]Steal and make up...[/b] For a long running homebrew --13 years and counting-- I stole a few exotic sounding names for real world sources: The cities of Narcoriel {from a book on magic by A.E. Waite. Supposedly the name of an angel}, Orissa and Paradla {either Indian cities or place names}. An expensive resturant in a theocratic city called The Throne of the Third Heaven {from a piece of outsider art}. A demon lord named Gabriel --forgive the cheap irony, I was young... Other than that, the standard odd-but-not-too-odd fantasy syllables and phrase names: Lassivander, Mirovar, and Saroval {port cities}. Rexrelis's, the most expensive resturant in the known world. The Sea of Grass --grasslands, who would have guessed?. The Spiral and South Spiral Clusters {island groups}. The Harvest Plains --blessed by a Goddess after a cataclysmic magical battle that reduced a few hundred miles of surface to bacteria-free ash. Plus the obligatory lazy smattering of language-making. A handful of syllables to use as root-words for compounds. "kel"=thousand, "il" or "iel' for sun/star, "ra" for water/life, "ran" for lake or ocean. As in Elias Keliel -- "Elias of the Thousand Stars", a demon who once offhandedly threatened to stop the worlds rotation. Sorry, haven't played this one in a while, and I miss it. [/QUOTE]

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