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<blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 7266650" data-attributes="member: 46713"><p>That's imho one of the best approaches - if you already have a clear idea about the place. After all that's how real places most often get their names.</p><p></p><p>It made me think of a similar but different approach: if you're going for a particular theme you can support it by using descriptive names that support the theme.</p><p>E.g. in the recent Bladerunner 2049 movie I noticed that two of the female characters are named 'Luv' and 'Joi'.</p><p>The same can work for place names, e.g. you could have a border fortress called 'Valor' or a hobbit village called 'Repose'. </p><p>You can make it less obvious by making up a different spelling with the same pronunciation.</p><p></p><p>Related Fun Fact: This weekend it struck me that the Smasing Pumpkins album 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' is really named after 'Melancholy'.</p><p>Given that the album was released in 1995 it's rather amazing it took me so long to realize this.</p><p>(My feeble excuse being that I'm not a native English speaker and I had always falsely assumed 'melancholy' was pronounced a bit differently.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jhaelen, post: 7266650, member: 46713"] That's imho one of the best approaches - if you already have a clear idea about the place. After all that's how real places most often get their names. It made me think of a similar but different approach: if you're going for a particular theme you can support it by using descriptive names that support the theme. E.g. in the recent Bladerunner 2049 movie I noticed that two of the female characters are named 'Luv' and 'Joi'. The same can work for place names, e.g. you could have a border fortress called 'Valor' or a hobbit village called 'Repose'. You can make it less obvious by making up a different spelling with the same pronunciation. Related Fun Fact: This weekend it struck me that the Smasing Pumpkins album 'Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' is really named after 'Melancholy'. Given that the album was released in 1995 it's rather amazing it took me so long to realize this. (My feeble excuse being that I'm not a native English speaker and I had always falsely assumed 'melancholy' was pronounced a bit differently.) [/QUOTE]
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