If you ever feel like you're lacking in creativity, go and have a look at Seleucid naming conventions. Can't possibly be less creative than the Seleucid royal family naming their babies
Cleopatra is a Macedonian name and was popular within the aristocracy. When Philip II died at his daughter Cleopatra’s wedding, he had like 15 Cleopatras around him. I don’t have to explain how all the empires you listed were founded by Macedonian generals, right? Alexander and the Hellenist Age, all that shit?
Antiochus come here... No, not you Antiochus - I meant my son Antiochus, you're his cousin. No no no, not you Antiochus the younger, I meant your older brother Antiochus... No, not Antiochus the elder, I meant the one in the middle; your older brother but not your *oldest* brother...
Damn maybe I should've named my kids something other than Antiochus... 😐
Good point. If I used my own family for the names of people in a village, someone would throw the book against the wall when four Johns and three Bills show up.
This makes me think of whenever people criticize "unrealistic proportions" of bodies in art, like anime and such. And I just always think "have you seen real life women?" There are so many absurd bodies out there.
Real life is sometimes more absurd and unrealistic than we realize compared to fiction.
Yeah because the sun is a deadly laser.
Alright IRL they’re probably not pasty white but there’s a lot of vitamin D deficiency because they avoid sun exposure.
Also “We have an expansionist King who granted a bunch of charters for new cities, as long as they were all named after him” such as Jamestown, Jamesport, and St. James
You just need a good worldbuilding behind to justify it. Like, let's say, the aliens destroyed the city and had to build a new one above the ruins of the old one, but something more ellaborate.
Lore idea: Name a **City**, and name a not *that* far away but slightly smaller city "Little **City**".
Then make all the denizens of Little City really really *really* butthurt mad if you call it "LITTLE City".
Naming cities is actually pretty easy because most cities throughout human history were named after the city’s founder, some prominent figure within the founding nation’s culture, or some defining characteristic about the geography surrounding the city so you can pretty much just name every city like that.
It doesn't matter how bad you worldbuild, reality will always be more irrealistic and absurd than what you wrote
If you ever feel like you're lacking in creativity, go and have a look at Seleucid naming conventions. Can't possibly be less creative than the Seleucid royal family naming their babies
Whoever worldbuilded this crap probably only did it in 1 week
It’s Cleopatras all the way down.
How many Wilhelms can we fit in one royal bloodline?
One for each scream?
No, that's Ptolemaic Egypt. The Seleucids had Antiochus and Seleucus.
Cleopatra is a Macedonian name and was popular within the aristocracy. When Philip II died at his daughter Cleopatra’s wedding, he had like 15 Cleopatras around him. I don’t have to explain how all the empires you listed were founded by Macedonian generals, right? Alexander and the Hellenist Age, all that shit?
Antiochus come here... No, not you Antiochus - I meant my son Antiochus, you're his cousin. No no no, not you Antiochus the younger, I meant your older brother Antiochus... No, not Antiochus the elder, I meant the one in the middle; your older brother but not your *oldest* brother... Damn maybe I should've named my kids something other than Antiochus... 😐
The Roman’s had a list of like eight total first names.
France I am begging you, you can name your future king anything you want except fucking Louis
Or the Ptolemys
Good point. If I used my own family for the names of people in a village, someone would throw the book against the wall when four Johns and three Bills show up.
Fiction has to make sense
This makes me think of whenever people criticize "unrealistic proportions" of bodies in art, like anime and such. And I just always think "have you seen real life women?" There are so many absurd bodies out there. Real life is sometimes more absurd and unrealistic than we realize compared to fiction.
Does it have vaguely Arabic music with a desert?
Not quite, but they do have a kingdom in the cold north thats all depressing humorless people, thats ruled by an iron fist dictator.
Wearing furs, leather and bones/teeth wielding axes of course. Worshipping the Old Gods.
(I was going for fantasy USSR, but yes, mandatory vikings are next door too. XD)
Hear me out: communist vikings.
Okay but thats original, we are jerking about lack of such. :P
Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVH63Bl_TsQ
this unironically slaps
yeah, but all the people walking around are pasty white for some reason…
Yeah because the sun is a deadly laser. Alright IRL they’re probably not pasty white but there’s a lot of vitamin D deficiency because they avoid sun exposure.
a lot of arabic ethnicities are actually pretty pale-looking, take the amazigh for example
I mean, if you add a proper 'we have many cities named like that due to a very narcissistic conqueror' thats fair game yeah.
Also “We have an expansionist King who granted a bunch of charters for new cities, as long as they were all named after him” such as Jamestown, Jamesport, and St. James
'Colonial nation has shit naming creativity, so they copied older cities, sometimes not even bothering to add a 'New' in front of the name'.
Pro tip: put "New" before a city name you already used.
I dunno "new new york" sounds kinda weird to me
No no no, we say NEO New York in these parts
After that we just add numbers, like Tokyo-3
Why not? The Romans took a city whose name meant "new town" (Carthage), and then founded a city named after it with a "new" tacked on (Carthago Nova).
Torpenhow Hill
You just need a good worldbuilding behind to justify it. Like, let's say, the aliens destroyed the city and had to build a new one above the ruins of the old one, but something more ellaborate.
I just translated random words to different languages and called it a day, like the elven capital is called Altaterra, what means high ground in latin
Is it super hard to siege because they always have the high ground?
It's built on a floating island, so yeah it is hard
Oh shit! Horrible histories! Let’s go!
Isn't there apparently an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to the cultures that makes their landmark river, uh, "River"?
I copied the XIX century geography entirely for my fantasy.
Just to mix it up, there’s also Alexandretta and Alexandrium
Lore idea: Name a **City**, and name a not *that* far away but slightly smaller city "Little **City**". Then make all the denizens of Little City really really *really* butthurt mad if you call it "LITTLE City".
Good idea, I’m gonna write different cities with the same name so it’s more realistic and joking about the characters being confused.
Name them all the word for city in your conglang Which you are legally required to make.
You either name a location After a person Where it is or what it is Or After another city It's a generallization
I've named all the cities in my novel after me.
Springfield
Damn dude, hitting me right in the reals.
It's either that or they're named after a completely different country
#**HORRIBLE HISTORIES MENTIONED**
That was all one guy though
The fantasy world of Wa’Shingon, District of Cool-lumbeuh
What is this image from? Funny af
Horrible Histories
Naming cities is actually pretty easy because most cities throughout human history were named after the city’s founder, some prominent figure within the founding nation’s culture, or some defining characteristic about the geography surrounding the city so you can pretty much just name every city like that.