Shadowed Land Gaming
  • The World of Nyasia
    • History & Map
    • Naming Conventions
    • Skenden >
      • Skenden Territory: People & Places
      • The Tale of the Lord of Flame and the Queen of Winter
    • Minzoku >
      • Minzokan Territory: People & Places
    • Oami >
      • Oami Forest: People & Places
      • The Tale of Leany
    • Dascea >
      • Dascean Territory: People & Places
      • Dascean Pantheon
    • Ta Atoua
    • Ash-Sh'b >
      • Ash-Sh'b Territory: People & Places
    • Free Isles >
      • Free Isle
      • Isle of Blades
    • The Nine Seas
  • Characters
    • Sitara
    • Kasumi >
      • Kasumi's Journal
    • Mesi
    • Crew of Viz Leany
    • Retired PCs >
      • Dasha
      • Akash
    • Guest PCs >
      • Helene
      • Lisbeth
      • Masha
      • Nanako
      • Serrai
  • Chronicles of Viz Leany
    • Season 1 >
      • The Adventure Begins
      • Concerning Families and Figs
      • Into the North
      • In the Shadow of the Forest
    • Season 2 >
      • The Return Home
      • Looking for Captains
      • A Strange Visitor
      • The Festival of High Sun
      • And They Call It a Mine...
      • Loose Ends
    • Strange Creatures >
      • Beasts of the Land >
        • The Forest Beast
      • Beasts of the Sea >
        • Wight Whale
      • Beasts of the Dark >
        • Flagellating Stone
    • Mysterious Artifacts >
      • Ryuu Mon
      • Cekarza Rozka's Cache
    • Quotes & Memes
  • Game Master & Players
    • The Great Goat God (GM)
    • Artemis (Sitara)
    • Gus (Kasumi)
    • Astraea (Mesi)
  • Acknowledgments
  • The World of Nyasia
    • History & Map
    • Naming Conventions
    • Skenden >
      • Skenden Territory: People & Places
      • The Tale of the Lord of Flame and the Queen of Winter
    • Minzoku >
      • Minzokan Territory: People & Places
    • Oami >
      • Oami Forest: People & Places
      • The Tale of Leany
    • Dascea >
      • Dascean Territory: People & Places
      • Dascean Pantheon
    • Ta Atoua
    • Ash-Sh'b >
      • Ash-Sh'b Territory: People & Places
    • Free Isles >
      • Free Isle
      • Isle of Blades
    • The Nine Seas
  • Characters
    • Sitara
    • Kasumi >
      • Kasumi's Journal
    • Mesi
    • Crew of Viz Leany
    • Retired PCs >
      • Dasha
      • Akash
    • Guest PCs >
      • Helene
      • Lisbeth
      • Masha
      • Nanako
      • Serrai
  • Chronicles of Viz Leany
    • Season 1 >
      • The Adventure Begins
      • Concerning Families and Figs
      • Into the North
      • In the Shadow of the Forest
    • Season 2 >
      • The Return Home
      • Looking for Captains
      • A Strange Visitor
      • The Festival of High Sun
      • And They Call It a Mine...
      • Loose Ends
    • Strange Creatures >
      • Beasts of the Land >
        • The Forest Beast
      • Beasts of the Sea >
        • Wight Whale
      • Beasts of the Dark >
        • Flagellating Stone
    • Mysterious Artifacts >
      • Ryuu Mon
      • Cekarza Rozka's Cache
    • Quotes & Memes
  • Game Master & Players
    • The Great Goat God (GM)
    • Artemis (Sitara)
    • Gus (Kasumi)
    • Astraea (Mesi)
  • Acknowledgments
Shadowed Land Gaming

Nyasian Naming Conventions

Skenden: Clan Name (of the Heirs of Eindride), Family Name, Given Name, Deed Name
Ex: Larsson Dyhr Aron Hammaren (the Hammer)
Example Languages*: Scandinavian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

Minzoku: Family Name, Given Name
Ex: Nakagawa Hoshi
Example Languages*: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese

Oami: Given Name, Byname or Deed name, Tribe Name
Ex: Ziven Petr (the rock) Tesar
Example Languages*: Slavic, Czechoslovakian, Russian, Ukranian

Dascean: Given Name, Family Name (often an occupation or place name)
Ex: Aidan Stille (the silent)
Example Languages*: Anglo-Saxon, Arthurian Legend, Dutch, English, German, Teutonic

Ta Atoua: Earned Title, Family Name, Given Name
Ex: Theron (the hunter) Sudani Thabit
Example Languages*: Egyptian, African, Greek

Ash-Sh'b: Professional Title, Given Name, ("bin" if the son of or "binte" if the daughter) Father's Name, Family Name (Trade or Place title)
Ex: Amir-al-bahr Aden bin Tarik Musa
(Commander of the sea, Aden, son of Tarik, Musa (taken from the water)
Example Languages*: Arabic, Indian, Persian

Free Isles: Often a shortened version of the parent culture of the individual or simply a given or byname

*Example Languages are languages you can use as inspiration for names for a given culture. For those "example languages" that are not actual languages, see the excellent guide The Writer's Digest Character Naming Sourcebook by Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Each culture speaks its own singular language, resulting in six cultural languages plus Trade Tongue, a mishmash language based primarily on Ash-Sh'b and spoken largely by sailors, travelers and coastal villages


http://www.behindthename.com/
A good site for finding cultural names and their meanings.
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