OK, I got another one for you.
First, quick background on elves. They came to Europa when Atlantis broke apart and sank. They were scattered as a people, landing all up and down the western seaboard. Yes, in just those areas that are Celtic in our world. But they fractured even further, choosing certain ways of living that came to define them over the ensuing centuries. So, for example, there are fisher elves.
One group became travelers. They are known as the Totally-Not-Gypsies-That's-For-Sure people. I shift some stuff around--most notably, they are not social pariahs.
Anyway, I have some name candidates for these people, at least for the French version of them:
voyageurs
routiers
Wagoneers
I was actually pretty happy with the third one, not wanting to inflict too many "foreign" words on my readers, but then I read a David Eddings book and by golly there's some Wagoneers. Not the same kind of folk, but the word is there.
Do you have preferences? My second pick is Routiers because it doesn't immediately connect in English, but does after a bit of reflection. I had hesitated because routiers during the Hundred Years War were bandits of the worst kind--unemployed mercenaries. Some real bad hombres, uh-huh. But then I looked at modern French and routier basically just means truck driver. The bad connotations are all gone.
Voyageur is third choice. Serviceable, but it makes me think of fur trappers, so there you go. I don't know why I'm struggling with words on this project. They came pretty easily with Goblins.
Any preferences?
First, quick background on elves. They came to Europa when Atlantis broke apart and sank. They were scattered as a people, landing all up and down the western seaboard. Yes, in just those areas that are Celtic in our world. But they fractured even further, choosing certain ways of living that came to define them over the ensuing centuries. So, for example, there are fisher elves.
One group became travelers. They are known as the Totally-Not-Gypsies-That's-For-Sure people. I shift some stuff around--most notably, they are not social pariahs.
Anyway, I have some name candidates for these people, at least for the French version of them:
voyageurs
routiers
Wagoneers
I was actually pretty happy with the third one, not wanting to inflict too many "foreign" words on my readers, but then I read a David Eddings book and by golly there's some Wagoneers. Not the same kind of folk, but the word is there.
Do you have preferences? My second pick is Routiers because it doesn't immediately connect in English, but does after a bit of reflection. I had hesitated because routiers during the Hundred Years War were bandits of the worst kind--unemployed mercenaries. Some real bad hombres, uh-huh. But then I looked at modern French and routier basically just means truck driver. The bad connotations are all gone.
Voyageur is third choice. Serviceable, but it makes me think of fur trappers, so there you go. I don't know why I'm struggling with words on this project. They came pretty easily with Goblins.
Any preferences?