ext_6558 ([identity profile] lil-shepherd.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] la_marquise 2010-07-19 07:33 pm (UTC)

Depends on the story. Where it's appropriate, real names culled from history, telephone directories, scientific directories etc.

In the world I'm writing now, they don't form names like we do. Each person is known by his or her [current] profession or job title and the city of his or her origin (with one or two exceptions) with a name picked simply because the person doing the naming likes the sound of it. That combination of name plus city-state is unique because [magically] anyone of the same name won't be accepted during the naming ceremony. There are fashions. People born in Cinross often have long and complex names, for instance Botanikii, Cojimacepi, Altlialmolon and Tsamatli. Rulers are known by the courtesy 'Lord' or 'Lady', though that translation is very rough.

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