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I was wondering if anyone else had run into issues with naming a vast quantity of unimportant and irrelevant (for now) characters, just to have the back end stuff sorted so that you can pull from it as needed?
I have a world in which magicians operate pretty much separately from the rest of society (think monks with wives and kids), and their names are different from the rest of the society. My MC and her buddies have normalish names and nicknames, but the magicians don't.
I discovered the Everchanging Book of Names thingie, which is kinda useful, but limited in naming enough characters to make up family trees. (My magicians are like our world's royalty in that they intermarry exclusively with their own kind and thus having everyone have similar sounding names doesn't quite work.)
Are using sites like Behind the Name and etymology sites useful for y'all in general?
In case it matters for suggestions: the world is a blend of Egypt/Venice/Louisiana--so marshy, wet, humid, etc.
I have a world in which magicians operate pretty much separately from the rest of society (think monks with wives and kids), and their names are different from the rest of the society. My MC and her buddies have normalish names and nicknames, but the magicians don't.
I discovered the Everchanging Book of Names thingie, which is kinda useful, but limited in naming enough characters to make up family trees. (My magicians are like our world's royalty in that they intermarry exclusively with their own kind and thus having everyone have similar sounding names doesn't quite work.)
Are using sites like Behind the Name and etymology sites useful for y'all in general?
In case it matters for suggestions: the world is a blend of Egypt/Venice/Louisiana--so marshy, wet, humid, etc.