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<blockquote data-quote="Dwimmerlied" data-source="post: 6098853" data-attributes="member: 6706967">I was confident in offering a unicorn as a plot token in a fill-in session the other month, but my gf still laughed at me!Just as a point of argument, for the sake of consideration, you can spend far too long trying to develop some sort of internal logical consistency with languages and such things. Certain settings and authors such as Greyhawk and Lankhmar don't seem to have bothered too much with it, but have still produced compelling stories.Conversely, I actually enjoy trying to capture the sounds and effects of languages, and using rules as I perceive them for naming conventions tied to cultures. I've used baby-name databases as well as fairy tales/mythology for sources, trying to identify sound trends and then playing around with them. If you are so inclined in terms of time and effort, I'll add my voice to those already spoken in recommending this. Fir Bolg and Formoirii names in Gaelic literature have inspired,&nbsp; for me,many cool-sounding, alien names (Like the Half-Ogre champion Sreng, pronounced Shrenneck and a gnome PC called Nimue), Welsh (I have a night hag queen called Anwnna). I learned some Slovene when I travelled abroad, and have had all sorts of fun generating slavic-sounding names with this that I might oneday use to help give character to some culture. Using unfamiliar but consistent trends, IMO certainly adds to versimilitude.I'm sure that my creations would get some laughs if heard by native speakers! I once played a playstation game called Legend of the Dragoon; All the characters had weird, or plainly unheroic, but vaguely European-sounding names, and I always pictured Japanese producers doing the same sort of thing as I do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dwimmerlied, post: 6098853, member: 6706967"] I was confident in offering a unicorn as a plot token in a fill-in session the other month, but my gf still laughed at me! Just as a point of argument, for the sake of consideration, you can spend far too long trying to develop some sort of internal logical consistency with languages and such things. Certain settings and authors such as Greyhawk and Lankhmar don't seem to have bothered too much with it, but have still produced compelling stories. Conversely, I actually enjoy trying to capture the sounds and effects of languages, and using rules as I perceive them for naming conventions tied to cultures. I've used baby-name databases as well as fairy tales/mythology for sources, trying to identify sound trends and then playing around with them. If you are so inclined in terms of time and effort, I'll add my voice to those already spoken in recommending this. Fir Bolg and Formoirii names in Gaelic literature have inspired, for me,many cool-sounding, alien names (Like the Half-Ogre champion Sreng, pronounced Shrenneck and a gnome PC called Nimue), Welsh (I have a night hag queen called Anwnna). I learned some Slovene when I travelled abroad, and have had all sorts of fun generating slavic-sounding names with this that I might oneday use to help give character to some culture. Using unfamiliar but consistent trends, IMO certainly adds to versimilitude. I'm sure that my creations would get some laughs if heard by native speakers! I once played a playstation game called Legend of the Dragoon; All the characters had weird, or plainly unheroic, but vaguely European-sounding names, and I always pictured Japanese producers doing the same sort of thing as I do. [/QUOTE]

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