Naming Fey characters

[Dannyalcatraz]

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A gift for you, then, good sir!

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[Dannyalcatraz]

Looking into the cold-climate thorny plants, some names are starting to emerge. Wild roses, Barberries and Hawthorns have popped up as being popular natural perimeter plantings on one survivalist message board.

Edit: there’s some good mystical properties & legends attached to each, too.

Hawthorn Power in Fairy Tales, the Cult of the Virgin, and the Cult of the Undead - Yale University Press

Bill Vaughn— In “Hawthorn Blossom,” the Brothers Grimm rewriting of the folk story Sleeping Beauty, a queen is informed by a frog that the royal couple finally will have a... READ MORE

yalebooks.yale.edu

Barberry magical properties |

BARBERRY ROOT – lay this root across the path of an enemy to undo or diminish their effect on you, "bars the way" of your enemies. Used in protection amulets for the home and for children and is also known as Holy Thorn. Used to free yourself from the power another holds over you. Barberry, when...

www.aromagregory.com

The rose - myth and meanings - Wander Lord

The rose - myth and meanings. The custom of exchanging flowers may have less to do with romance and chivalry than with anxiety. For the shy or uncertain,

wanderlord.com

There’s others, too, like blackberries and salmon berries, but they’re more popular for being a food source with only modest thorniness.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I also found a list of cold-resistant herbs, and found out (with a little more digging), that Tarragon also has some mystical properties:

Magical Properties of Tarragon | How to Use Tarragon in Spells

Learn how to use regular tarragon in spells and rituals. This French herb is great for peace, luck, cleansing, and more.

plentifulearth.com

Soooo…going with taking a naturistic bent on the name, mysticism, giving each head its own name, and piling on aliases like Puck being aka Robin Goodfellow, I’m starting to get things like Ballantine Wildrose, Tom Tarragon and John Hawthorn.

I’m not necessarily sold on any particular name, but I’m heading in the right direction. There’s still the Slavic/Russian type names that I was considering, after all.

 

[ruemere]

Assuming that you have a divide of the Fey into Courts, Houses and Station, you could create elaborate naming scheme that refers to these:

I am Court-adjective Court-noun.
I am Court-verb Court-adjective Court-noun.

Station-name.

Of House-name.

For example:
(Spring Court minor clerk and devout soldier)
I am Treads Lightly Upon Petals.
I am an East Wing Guardian who Greets Unwelcome Visitors from South.
Of Third House of Swallow.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Assuming that you have a divide of the Fey into Courts, Houses and Station, you could create elaborate naming scheme that refers to these:

I am Court-adjective Court-noun.
I am Court-verb Court-adjective Court-noun.

Station-name.

Of House-name.

For example:
(Spring Court minor clerk and devout soldier)
I am Treads Lightly Upon Petals.
I am an East Wing Guardian who Greets Unwelcome Visitors from South.
Of Third House of Swallow.

Actually, I hadn’t! That’s some good stuff there, though.

To clarify: this is a PC idea I came up with that really appealed to me, so I started fleshing it out. There’s not even a 3.5Ed campaign on my radar. But if one should pop up, I’ll have this character concept ready as a potential option. So whatever the Fey hierarchy this PC would interact with depends on someone else.

Regardless, your naming convention (or something like it) could be a good way to organize the PC’s names & epithets.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

“Robin Goodfellow” still has me thinking. I would imagine the name is based on the bird directly, and not just the common name it became. Puck is is being compared to the (usually) welcome red-breasted bird who is a harbinger of Spring- a “good fellow” to most who want to see the end of winter.

So what birds might be good names for this PC?

I found the Gyrfalcon and several Shrikes are found in Russia.

The gyrfalcon sounds cool. It’s the biggest falcon, but it’s not as aggressive as smaller falcons, like the peregrine. Plumage ranges from almost pure white to brown. And c’mon…“Falcon” as any part of your name sounds cool!

But shrikes? They’re infamous for impaling their prey on thorns, barbed wire, snd so forth. Sometimes, their prey is bigger than they are. And this PC dual-wields rapiers. His prospective ranged weapons were all piercing, too. So thematically, “Shrike” works.

 

[Searlin]

Have you tried Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names? Say, p. 186-188?

It cannot be recommended enough.

Exactly what I was thinking. That book is one of my main DM tools for adding some great fluff.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

If you have any background or affiliation to nature, you could use that for part of the surname.
"______ of the crickets" is an example... and you are attuned to cricket chirping, maybe the DM allows you to know the exact temperature if you hear them (VERY MINOR perk) but you also are protective of them (VERY MINOR flaw).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If you have any background or affiliation to nature, you could use that for part of the surname.
"______ of the crickets" is an example... and you are attuned to cricket chirping, maybe the DM allows you to know the exact temperature if you hear them (VERY MINOR perk) but you also are protective of them (VERY MINOR flaw).

I don’t know that I’d use it as part of the actual name, but it could definitely work as an epithet. And it would be a good way to add chaos & whimsy to the character. It would underscore his fey nature quite clearly.

Guardian of Willows?
Defender of the Cheese?
Lord High Protector of Kittens?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Honey Bearer?
Berry-bearer?
Warden of Baby’s Breath?
Lord of Lillies?
Thistle-thane?
Turtle Keeper?