Ladies and Gentlemen. Do you know what
is harder than building a 1000 plots town? Than applying to gazamo's
staff? Than breaking a Nokia phone? Than resisting the urge to sing
when hearing the song ''What is love''? Than being funny in this
blog? Harder than walking after getting a direct and accurate kick in
the nuts? Or than asking THAT girl for prom? Coming up with a name!
That's the topic for today. How we came up
with a sweet name for your town. So yeah, it took us ages to find the
perfect name for our town. We had tons of suggestions and ideas. Fun
fact is... that Lithaear wasn't even one of them. We had a few hints
to help us. The town will be a port town. It will be in a desert. Will
have a monarchy politic system... Will be baroque style...
We first tried multiple fantasy name
generators. http://donjon.bin.sh/ for an example. Here's a list of
names we came up with :
Valentia , Lihnidos , Crotona ,
Tridentum , Ancona , Avaricum , Cambria, Portus , Utinum , Consentia,
Novaria , Caralis , Carteia , Amerton , Ceylon , Desire* , Thane ,
Bastion , Berberis, mondara, Phaeton Anglesey, Vinione, Enoth,
Doressea, Arlon, Steinibekkr, Lemoor, Avon, Aelhyrst, Shola, Padun,
Leregond, Aethereal, Mostat, Nargila, Lalean, Swadale, Gaberh,
Heagate, Forliene, Dawold, Astoria Kenykirk, Corlear, Maihi, Salcu,
Qohor, Tolos, Mantharys...
In
the trash they go.
*I
actually proposed to name the town ''Desire of Allaka''. Yes sir, I
did ._. … Then realized that it doesn't sound appropriate at all.
So
yep. A lot of names that we just tossed into the trash can. We had a
couple of interesting names though. One of them was Aquileia. We liked
that one since it sounds water-ish. Spajn even made some great tests
for banners.
First
of all, manly as fuck. No offence Spajn :) <3. After seeing those
pure concentration of Swedish virility *wink wink*, the name Aquileia
was really promising. But we still had some minor problems with it
(and I'm not talking about the banners). First, Aquileia sounds too
much like ''aquila''. Which is the Latin word for eagle. Which
doesn't fit our town. And secondly, some assistants just didn't feel
like naming the town Aquileia. So we jumped back to the long quest of
finding a name. Then someone came out with ''Meletheril'', which
apparently mean ''Loving ladies'' in elvish. What an awesome idea! I
mean, looking for elvish names! I was then rushing him to find a name
since I was creating this blog and I needed a name real quick. He
then came back a little bit later with ''Lithaear'' saying it means
sand and water. We finally found a name that suits a desertic port
town! And by the same time, found a quote : ''Where the sands
meets the water''. We all agreed to that name. And then a development
blog born.
Andronesia
kinda has the same problem when the two founders, Spajn and Icarusia,
were looking for a name. In rush to find find a name, Spajn typed
''Cool town name'' on google and found ''Andronesia''. Then a legend
born! A name that we can't forget. Fun fact, a lot said that the name
''Andronesia'' was kinda sexist since ''Andro'' means ''male'' in
Latin. Something the founders didn't knew when picking the name.
And
then ended our terrible name hunt. The result of the hard work of a whole team. That was quite long to write...
It's time for me to drop my quill and do something productive. Or
maybe not.
PS :
Every names have a story. Goodnight kids.
-Frogster
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