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I need help with naming a fantasy country
10 years ago
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Greetings everyone! I am currently working on a new story, set in the same world as Qaos Queens, entitled Kingdom of the Night. But I think I need a bit of help coming up with a good name for said kingdom and I was hoping someone out there could offer some suggestions.
The kingdom is on a fairly large island. Not exactly the size of Great Britain or anything,
more like the size of the Shetland Isles, Lewis and Harris or Gotland.
There’s one large coastal city, which is also the capital, and for the rest mainly just small villages. The country isn’t very rich in resources, making a living off things like fish and agriculture.
Geography wise the island is pretty hilly, not exactly mountainous, but there’s a lot of ups and downs all over the place. The capital is built on a slope, with the royal castle on the highest point.
Most buildings have a look that’s a bit of a mix of German Renaissance style and that combination of renaissance and gothic style that you find in a lot of historic Romanian buildings.
Lot’s of pointy spires and timber framed houses with dark oak and what have you.
The city is very heavily fortified and looks like it was built in “levels”, with every part surrounded by a high wall, with the castle at the top of course having the most fortified wall.
The reason they call it the Kingdom of the Night is because centuries ago it used to be ruled over by an evil tyrant known as the King of Darkness, who had plunged the island into eternal night with his dark magic. His evil rule lasted for a considerable time, until a powerful wizard confronted him and managed to split his shadow, the source of his power, in two.
One of the pieces remained in the possession of the King of Darkness while the other one joined with the wizard. With his newfound might the wizard managed to destroy the King, but what remained of his shadow unfortunately managed to escape and began looking for a new host body.
Hailed as the savior by the people of the island the wizard was crowned king and his descendant continued to rule the kingdom for the coming generations.
Unfortunately the shadow eventually found a new host body and returned to terrorize the kingdom. Through the coming centuries the two halves of the King of Darkness continued to war with one another. The good half going by the name of the King of the Night, while the other one had been reduced to being called the King of Shadows (a name he of course despises). Sometimes the King of the Night would emerge victorious and other times the King of Shadows. Both shades went through several host bodies, with the descendants of wizard serving as host bodies for the Shade of the Night, while the Shade of Darkness just forcefully took over the mind of the strongest person he could find at the time. But unfortunately the power of the Shade of Darkness was always somewhat stronger than that of the Night, so often the royal family would go through their kings rather quickly.
And the battle between the two Shades still rages on to this very day, as every night the capital is attacked by the minions of darkness.
So yeah...any ideas for a good name?
I’m probably going to go with mostly Germanic sounding names for the people that live there, so maybe we should go in a similar direction for the name of the island?
The kingdom is on a fairly large island. Not exactly the size of Great Britain or anything,
more like the size of the Shetland Isles, Lewis and Harris or Gotland.
There’s one large coastal city, which is also the capital, and for the rest mainly just small villages. The country isn’t very rich in resources, making a living off things like fish and agriculture.
Geography wise the island is pretty hilly, not exactly mountainous, but there’s a lot of ups and downs all over the place. The capital is built on a slope, with the royal castle on the highest point.
Most buildings have a look that’s a bit of a mix of German Renaissance style and that combination of renaissance and gothic style that you find in a lot of historic Romanian buildings.
Lot’s of pointy spires and timber framed houses with dark oak and what have you.
The city is very heavily fortified and looks like it was built in “levels”, with every part surrounded by a high wall, with the castle at the top of course having the most fortified wall.
The reason they call it the Kingdom of the Night is because centuries ago it used to be ruled over by an evil tyrant known as the King of Darkness, who had plunged the island into eternal night with his dark magic. His evil rule lasted for a considerable time, until a powerful wizard confronted him and managed to split his shadow, the source of his power, in two.
One of the pieces remained in the possession of the King of Darkness while the other one joined with the wizard. With his newfound might the wizard managed to destroy the King, but what remained of his shadow unfortunately managed to escape and began looking for a new host body.
Hailed as the savior by the people of the island the wizard was crowned king and his descendant continued to rule the kingdom for the coming generations.
Unfortunately the shadow eventually found a new host body and returned to terrorize the kingdom. Through the coming centuries the two halves of the King of Darkness continued to war with one another. The good half going by the name of the King of the Night, while the other one had been reduced to being called the King of Shadows (a name he of course despises). Sometimes the King of the Night would emerge victorious and other times the King of Shadows. Both shades went through several host bodies, with the descendants of wizard serving as host bodies for the Shade of the Night, while the Shade of Darkness just forcefully took over the mind of the strongest person he could find at the time. But unfortunately the power of the Shade of Darkness was always somewhat stronger than that of the Night, so often the royal family would go through their kings rather quickly.
And the battle between the two Shades still rages on to this very day, as every night the capital is attacked by the minions of darkness.
So yeah...any ideas for a good name?
I’m probably going to go with mostly Germanic sounding names for the people that live there, so maybe we should go in a similar direction for the name of the island?
