I'm so glad to hear that someone is enjoying the names! I do have fun coming up with the names for these, but normally I only need one or two, and this time I needed five, and then I realized I had somehow started three of them with the same letter and had to come up with two more (Selasko doesn't count, I really did mention him in another one of these years ago).
I usually aim for a mix of nonsense words that sound cool and somewhat exotic real words - Fusarium is a genus of mold, Glaur is soft, slimy mud, Pavo is a genus of peafowl, Litharge is a mineral variety of lead, and of course Perfidious means deceitful and untrustworthy.
The hobgoblins in the last two stories were named after mushrooms and slime mold. I don't know if anyone has ever noticed details like that, but it makes me happy to put them regardless. = )
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I'm so glad to hear that someone is enjoying the names! I do have fun coming up with the names for these, but normally I only need one or two, and this time I needed five, and then I realized I had somehow started three of them with the same letter and had to come up with two more (Selasko doesn't count, I really did mention him in another one of these years ago).
I usually aim for a mix of nonsense words that sound cool and somewhat exotic real words - Fusarium is a genus of mold, Glaur is soft, slimy mud, Pavo is a genus of peafowl, Litharge is a mineral variety of lead, and of course Perfidious means deceitful and untrustworthy.
The hobgoblins in the last two stories were named after mushrooms and slime mold. I don't know if anyone has ever noticed details like that, but it makes me happy to put them regardless. = )