Naming Names

[hrj]

Worked on the name-set for the novel this evening. I've got a working list that I've rung the phonological changes on, although I want to do some tweaking to adjust the look-and-feel. Next step is to start matching up names for the current characters that need them (as well as for the known characters that haven't been introduced yet). Next up is place-names, noble titles, and forms of address for all possible combinations of rank, status, and formality of addressor and addressee. Then I'll be ready to do a serious revision pass on Part I.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's very useful. I've saved your reply for later reference.

At the moment, to say my world building is "sketchy" would be being generous!

All I know is that I have not-Britain, not-France and not-Moorish Spain/North Africa. By which I mean that though the countries in my novel are not those countries, they have something of the feel of those countries at certain points in their history, at least insofar as those countries exist in my head. They don't necessarily bear any resemblance to the real places.