RiverNymph
Scribe
Hi there! I just joined this forum because I'm planning to write a book and this seems like a great place to get feedback! Anyway, I'm not sure how to explain this well so bear with me.
Okay so I don't really know much about my story yet other than the fact it will be about orcs in a positive light, I've always had a soft spot for orcs and feel they're used too often in a bad way. So when it comes to making them I'm having issues. I sort of understand that orcs naming structure seems to be: First Name Tribe/Last name - Achievement (I don't know if that's the right way to phrase it)
I want the names to sound orcish but not brutal if that makes sense, for example all I can really find are names like Ragork Elf Shredder, Borgarth Eater of Souls, Orgraok Spine Crusher. And well that's great and I love that, I need more tame and less violent names. More like when people are named after the profession in a way.
Anyway I understand if none of this makes any sense, I'm just hoping someone has ideas or ways for me to come up with names for my Orcs that are cultural but not so aggressive and violent.
- to add to this, I'm not sure if this is important in the naming process, but I plan to have a military hierarchy sort of like;
High Chief > Chieftain > Personal Guards to the Royal Family (don't quite have a name yet) > Commanders/Warlords > The realms army (I still don't really have specific names for each member of the Royal guard and titles and whatnot)
Okay so I don't really know much about my story yet other than the fact it will be about orcs in a positive light, I've always had a soft spot for orcs and feel they're used too often in a bad way. So when it comes to making them I'm having issues. I sort of understand that orcs naming structure seems to be: First Name Tribe/Last name - Achievement (I don't know if that's the right way to phrase it)
I want the names to sound orcish but not brutal if that makes sense, for example all I can really find are names like Ragork Elf Shredder, Borgarth Eater of Souls, Orgraok Spine Crusher. And well that's great and I love that, I need more tame and less violent names. More like when people are named after the profession in a way.
Anyway I understand if none of this makes any sense, I'm just hoping someone has ideas or ways for me to come up with names for my Orcs that are cultural but not so aggressive and violent.
- to add to this, I'm not sure if this is important in the naming process, but I plan to have a military hierarchy sort of like;
High Chief > Chieftain > Personal Guards to the Royal Family (don't quite have a name yet) > Commanders/Warlords > The realms army (I still don't really have specific names for each member of the Royal guard and titles and whatnot)