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Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Ninja D! on January 23, 2011, 02:34:20 AM
I've been fleshing out a small sort of setting recently. I hadn't planned on it but I had an idea, a pencil, a notebook, and some time so I just went with it.

So far, I have been calling the area that I have been working on 'Silver River County'. The idea is that a river flows through it called Silver River and it used to be governed by a count, as part of a larger kingdom. I don't really like this name, though. I would like to change the name of the river and the area, though I'm not sure what to. The river gets it's name because long ago (and still today, to a lesser extent) there was a lot of silver in it. This was caused by dwarves upriver building a city out of silver.

Does anyone have any ideas for names I could take or run with and modify?
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Tangential on January 23, 2011, 04:03:09 AM
The Gleam
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Ninja D! on January 23, 2011, 07:20:32 AM
Thanks for the reply. I had been thinking of making 'Silver River' a branch of a larger river. Referring to it as something like the Gleam could work well. The area could be Gleaming County or Glimmer County. Glimmer would probably work better.
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Ghostman on January 23, 2011, 03:19:26 PM
Alternatively you could go for a compound word reflecting the geography of the area, eg. 'Silvervale' (for a valley), 'Glimmermoors' (for moorlands), 'Gleamwald' (for heavily forested).
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Steerpike on January 23, 2011, 03:33:11 PM
One other possibility is to come up with a Dwarven name that when translated means "Silver River Country."  The place might have several names, actually.
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Ninja D! on January 23, 2011, 10:16:16 PM
What I'm going for is what the local humans call it when something other than "home" or "here" is needed. I would expect that the dwarves, who have probably been around much longer, have a different name for it. Especiallly since the river wasn't always as silver as they made it.
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: LD on January 23, 2011, 11:29:25 PM
Silverton... as in the Colorado, USA City :)

Gleaming Streams, Gleaming Rivers, Sparkleton/town.
Title: Help With A Name
Post by: Ninja D! on January 24, 2011, 03:43:55 AM
Thanks for the replies, even though I haven't been around here much lately. When I get to the site on a computer again (this has all been from my phone, which works but is less than ideal) I'll take a look at some of the current stuff and see if I can be of any use. If anyone that posted here has something in particular they'd like me to take a look at, PM me what it is.
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