Androxine Vortex
Archmage
In some of my novels, there are certain words that have a more in depth meaning behind them. For instance, I am a very huge Warhammer 40K fan so I named a city in my world, Spieltyr, which is Priestley (Rick Priestley : founder) mixed up. I have a few others including one which is a name for an orc character. His name is Gorlab which is Balrog (LOTR) backwards.
I don't do this for every name I create, I only have about five as of right now. Would this be legal to publish a story involving names which aren't directly copying something that another author invented but derived from it?
I don't do this for every name I create, I only have about five as of right now. Would this be legal to publish a story involving names which aren't directly copying something that another author invented but derived from it?