Dutch Raikuna
Life's a sweet bitter beauty song.......
I do love the name origins. Pretty similar to how I search for mine in place and characters. My main protag is a bit of messing around with gods and all, (Raiden becomes Laiku in the end through a lot of messing around. That sort of thing).Callista's the Europe-styled region, Kumajan has the Middle East and South Asian-styled cultures, and Tianma is the East Asian analogue, plus a bit of continental Southeast Asia at the bottom. Venmorek is more gothic horror than any explicit cultural analogue.
Callista is based on Jupiter's moon Callisto, going off of the same mindset as the Europe/Europa similarities. Kumajan's derived from Kumari Kandam, a mythical continent allegedly south of India and origin of the Tamil peoples, and Tianma comes from a historical Chinese worldview called tianxia. Venmorek came from fricking around with a list of random fantasy place name, prefixes, and suffixes.
And how my world of Frontieria came from simply Frontier, like the new world sort of feeling. Gave it a nice fantasy touch of a word.
Easily one of the most fun things about stories is you can mess around with it all.
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