need a name for a continent

[Caged Maiden]

Okay so I have a continent with about 5 different regions/ kingdoms on it. I named the kingdoms and regions and love it just as it is, but I have changed the name of the continent twice and still hate it. I am currently calling it Hadrule, but I realized that sounds like Link's Hyrule, and now I need a new name. Something simple would be better, nondescript but that sounds nice. Any suggestions?

[Ophiucha]

Well, what are the names of the other continents? What are the names of some cities or towns in the unnamed continent? Are the people on that continent a 'fantasy counterpart culture' of any real world culture?

[Queshire]

I'm pretty much only suggesting this 'cuz I want to use it in my story, but how about Mu? It's supposed to be a legendary sunken continent, basically the Atlantis of the Pacific.

[Butterfly]

As it's you... here's a list of continent sounding thingies that I dragged out from my unusable file - unusable because I can't ever imagine myself using them, so if you want any of them, go ahead and take them, or modify them, whatever you want to do with them.

Annalay
Armorea
Arnesse
Attrisea

Cantor

Erest
Etores

Gamroth
Ganisia

Helet

Iness
Irona

Jarat

Kolania

Malita
Mardahar

Onterat

Poracia

Quatora

Ryeka

Segura

Tayness
Tantus
Thessia
Tundal
Tyrancia

Vanlania
Vannarad

[Mindfire]

Something that I do is name regions after continents or oceans that don't exist anymore. Try some of these on for size:

Gondwana

Laurasia

Pangaea

Oldredia

Rodinia

Nena

Kenorland

Vaalbara

Amasia

Avalonia

Cimmeria

Baltica

Laurentia

Lemuria

Meropis

Kumari

Mirovia

Panthalassa

[Alex97]

When I need a name for something I usualy go on google translate and search related words in languages that resemble the culture I'm writinging about. Combine the a good word you find or change it a bit and somtimes you'll get really good resualts.

[Butterfly]

Mindfire - Excellent idea!

Have you thought about of looking at the moon? My dad had a great big globe of it once. There are some wicked names up there.

[Caged Maiden]

I'm going to have to consider for a bit, that was an information overload, thanks! I like Onterat. It's hard to name continents because how often do you talk about them? I mean, most people say, "I'm from the US," or, "I'm from Kansas City," but no one says, "I'm from North America."

So my regions are: one big continent which needs a new name. That is broken down into Two southern kingdoms called Goronmark and Eddenmark after the twin brothers who divided the kingdom long ago, a huge southern territory with no king called the Independent Southern Alliance or ISA, The eastern kingdom of Adelmoor, the central mountain kingdom of Rheinguard, and the western kingdom of Andruain. I tried not to pick cultural sounding names, because the people all speak a common language (for my convenience).

So anyways, thanks for the help, I'll think on it some more and see what fits.

[Queshire]

Frankly the ISA seems like a bit of an odd one out, and it's going to get immediatelly compared to the USA or the EU. If you're ok with that, then fine, but otherwise I'd suggest something more... medieval sounding, perhaps something like the Southern Kingdoms or Southern Territories.

[Mindfire]

I'm going to have to consider for a bit, that was an information overload, thanks! I like Onterat. It's hard to name continents because how often do you talk about them? I mean, most people say, "I'm from the US," or, "I'm from Kansas City," but no one says, "I'm from North America."

So my regions are: one big continent which needs a new name. That is broken down into Two southern kingdoms called Goronmark and Eddenmark after the twin brothers who divided the kingdom long ago, a huge southern territory with no king called the Independent Southern Alliance or ISA, The eastern kingdom of Adelmoor, the central mountain kingdom of Rheinguard, and the western kingdom of Andruain. I tried not to pick cultural sounding names, because the people all speak a common language (for my convenience).

So anyways, thanks for the help, I'll think on it some more and see what fits.

Frankly the ISA seems like a bit of an odd one out, and it's going to get immediatelly compared to the USA or the EU. If you're ok with that, then fine, but otherwise I'd suggest something more... medieval sounding, perhaps something like the Southern Kingdoms or Southern Territories.

I agree with Queshire on the ISA. It seems a bit... modern. But if you make it slightly more modern or "ahead of its time" than the other nations, maybe with some more advanced steampunk tech or a democratic form of government, then it might work.