I have a lot of different types of magic in my story, and they all have a state that specific magic abled person lives in. But I'm having trouble with names for cities/towns. Especially Time (which is time travel, future vision, stuff like that) and Poison (its called Love, don't ask why lol, but basically the Hate magic is healing and its an Iceland/Greenland situation) any names involving that would help, thank you!
I'm actually terrible at naming stuff but I entered the discution that @blueberrybluejay started on November 8th and there's some great advise there.
I'm actually terrible at naming stuff but I entered the discution that @blueberrybluejay started on November 8th and there's some great advise there.
Just saw this, I'm usually always in characters lol,thank you I'll check it out!
One way I come up with names for cities is I translate words that could describe that town or places that I'm trying to name into other languages and either use the translation of that word or I scrabble several words. Two names I did that are Talglis and Faidthalnar; I scrabbled several Irish words, and honestly I don't remember what words they were original. lol Then my kingdom Siochanta (she-onta) is just an Irish word.
Another thing I do is look at maps, find some city names, and scrabble them a bit.
Canbrough? Magtourn? Hilliand? Attenlands?
One way I come up with names for cities is I translate words that could describe that town or places that I'm trying to name into other languages and either use the translation of that word or I scrabble several words. Two names I did that are Talglis and Faidthalnar; I scrabbled several Irish words, and honestly I don't remember what words they were original. lol Then my kingdom Siochanta (she-onta) is just an Irish word.
Another thing I do is look at maps, find some city names, and scrabble them a bit.
This is a goof idea!! Paxlion, the country my characters are from, is peace in French, PAX, with Lion on the end lol
You could also use taxonomy/scientific names for animals as town names, then you have a built in town mascot/banner