Need to come up with a name for a new race...

They've been introduced into my campaign already, but sort of as a mysterious element (just to keep PC's on their feet), so they haven't been given a name yet... But they need one soon.

They're an aquatic race with semi-transparent skin (so you can see the ghosts of bones moving underneath) with very light bones to aid swimming. They have little webbing between they're fingers and can throw bubbles of energy stuff which distorts the air sort of like depth charge explosions (that U571 film, or whatever it was.). They are extremely agile and the ones the characters have met so far have had monk levels to compensate for no armour and a body which is really easy to destroy. They breath both water and air, but need water submersion every hour or so to stop drying out. Also, they can make themselves almost fully transparent in water, aiding their hunting.

I know thats alot of info for something with no name, but I'm stuck for ideas... Any takers?
 

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That doesn't sound bad, I was looking for something that sounds a little wavey, if you get what i mean. Gnuramil or something maybe... i need something that the players will remember almost straight away.

Any others?
 


Hmmm... thats not bad at all. Perhaps it needs a shorter name after all. Quee maybe... what about Qiss? Or maybe Q(insert vowel here)ss... not sure.

Thoughts? Quee or Qiss? Gurami or Gnuramil?
 


Spider_Jerusalem said:
Hmmm... thats not bad at all. Perhaps it needs a shorter name after all. Quee maybe... what about Qiss? Or maybe Q(insert vowel here)ss... not sure.

Thoughts? Quee or Qiss? Gurami or Gnuramil?
Hmm... I like Qiss.
 

They should refer to themselves as "the people" or "hunters of the shadowed surf" or something and everyone else they just call outsiders. Was it in "A Man Called Horse" that the native Americans referred to themselves as people? I always thought that was a very neat way to view things, only your race is chosen or acceptable while everyone else is somehow deficient. Maybe that's not at all what you envision for these folks, after all, it is your world.
 

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