ext_188713 ([identity profile] zaan.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] la_marquise 2010-07-19 06:48 pm (UTC)

Well, first I trawled through the atlas, one with all the lumpy bits in nice kinda color and shapes, and very detailed with names, and chose names from there, doing a page at a time, writing down anything that semed interesting. Then I altered them to give me the sound and feel I wanted.
When I ran out of those, Andrew Stephenson adapted a random die rolling program so it generates random names from a very small "batch" file I edit so I can choose how many syllables, and how they are formed and everything like that. It does a page of 100 and checks for duplicates. I still have to Edit them to what I want as some are impossible to pronounce! I have a file for each of my races. :)
I also have the Master file and an easy explanation on how to use it, with examples from Andrew I can mail you.

Plus through SFWA, I got this, http://ebon.pyorre.net/ It is a pretty good random name generator and prolly exactly what you need. :)

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