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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7126269" data-attributes="member: 907">It was also leaked in the Living City reference document they released about half a year before the FRCS. Well, not overtly, but it was fairly obvious that they had just done a global search-and-replace of "Bane" with "Xvim". For one thing, domains listed the gods that granted that domain in alphabetical order... except that Xvim was always near the start instead of the end. And one of the domains (Fear, I think) granted access to the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/bane.htm" target="_blank">Xvim</a> spell.I have many beefs with FR, but naming conventions is not one of them. Having places named after some prominent terrain feature is downright normal - it's just that in our world, language has gotten away from the names and/or the names have gotten a bit corrupted since the naming. For example, my hometown's name is Växjö, which is a corruption of Väg-sjö, or Road-lake - the lake where the roads meet. Or for a more fantasy-based name: Rivendell just means the valley (dell) in the cleft (riven).Waterdeep is named for the exceptionally deep natural harbor where the city was built. Darkhold is a fort (a hold) that's built and manned by dark forces. Neverwinter is near a source of volcanic heat, meaning the river that runs through it never freezes over. I also don't see any problem with names like Falconhand or Silverhand - they seem rather natural to me. Swedish names, when not boring patronyms, are often based on animals or other natural features.</blockquote>

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