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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wanderlust" data-source="post: 1788116" data-attributes="member: 4738">I've just moved to a new area and have finally put together a group for a new campaign.  Thing is that I'm the one in the hot seat... Which is a place I've not been in a long time, and which I had little experience in to begin with.  So, I'm looking for all the help that I can get, but the problem that has currently displaced it's small-pointy teeth is that of Naming Conventions.Currently, I've been working on a homebrew setting, and one thing that I want to be emphasized is the differences between the races.  So, in coming up with their cultures I was planning on using real world people's as a basis.  My problem is two-fold:  first in deciding on conventions for surnames (Examples being the use of "son" on the end of a father's name to create the surname for the offspring, or a profession as a surname, or a place, etc.), and second, deciding on which real world people's names should go with which fantasy race.As it stands:1. Elves:  In the line of Tolkien tradition I am planning on using Welsh, and I think their distinct trait will be a lack of surnames.2. That's as far as I got.  But, I'm tempted to use Hungarian for Dwarves.So, my question is:  What do you feel would be the proper surnaming convention for a race, and where should the given names come from?*Bonus question*Anyone know the meanings behind the name suffixes -gaard, -sted, -berg, -holm, -heim, -brandt, -wald, -kopf, -stein, -bach, -baum, -straus or -dorf?</blockquote>

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