Help me with some map nominclature!

[Shepherd]

I'm toying around with a map project that will have a fantasy realm look and feel... the kind of map you might see in a Tolkein-esque book with giants and dragons and the like.

I'm nowhere near having a product that I would want to share with the general public, but I am at the point where I need to start naming things. I thought it would be fun to throw it to the community to make up and propose some fun fantasy names. I need names for seas, rivers, mountain ranges, cliffs, forests, islands, deserts, prairies, even a wasteland of frozen tundra.

Please, no recycling names from works of fiction - I don't want to step on somebody else's copyrighted material.

Coolest sounding names will find themselves on the map.

 

[KungFuDuet]

Oceans:
Kairian Deep (Kairi = Sea in Japanese)

Mountains:
Mount Nighthaze, Mount Fei Long (Fei Long = Flying Dragon in Chinese),

Rivers:
Scattered Creek, Dreamer's Flow,

Cliffs:
Fall of Men, Wayward Edge

These, I declare, are all my own thoughts.

btw, I love writing stories (which in turn require me to sometimes make up names of things). These are not all that I can come up with. If it is possible to show me the map (I know you might not want to), or to characterize a region (meaning the description of a certain territory), I would be able to do it according to that a little more.

So if you don't mind, I hope to be able to help a little more!

KFD,
With a strong and creative writing urge.

 

[paul4763]

Monraenor Mountains (said in an elvish style)
Leif Greyn River
Gawrok Sands (a desert)
Frongnif Forest

Imagine Gandalf saying them all and they pretty much sound awesome. I like the idea of the map too

 

[Shepherd]

Ooh, I love calling a cliff a "Fall" - nice.

Greyn is a fantastic word - it sounds like it's right out of a Celtic language. This is the kind of stuff I'm after - good start fellas.

I can imagine Gandalf saying "Frongnif" and in my head he's coughing something up.

 

[Shepherd]

bump... help??

I've got deserts, swamplands, prairies, and forests to name. Anyone?

 

[masterjskye]

Fiskavaig Forest.

 

[Shepherd]

Fiskavaig...

I hope this doesn't mean "lick my sack" in some scandinavian language.

 

[Pumpkin]

Toringrad (grad means town in slavic)
Gunman's Rest (swampland)
Lingerron (forest)
North- and South-Quetôr
Sneeuwlandschap (snow landscape in dutch)

 

[AAFitz]

Hobbitown
Dragonshire
Potter Palace
....ok...

Sypel River
Gonhal Mountains
Heptal Valley
Hergal Wetlands
Venfrat War Prairies
Aidar Forest

Ill stop there...

 

[Badorties]

The Donne Gool.

I dont know what that is.

 

[Blondo]

Moortgat -> liberally translated, it means Murder Hole or Killing Pit

Moortgat is a brewery that bottles one of the best Belgian beers, Duvel. Stella Artois (another Belgian beer) is sometimes referred to as the wife beater, mainly by the British. However they haven't had a taste of this recipe for domestic discord. Not ominous enough? -> variation: Duvel's Moortgat = The Devil's Murder Hole.

Belgian towns where there was a spot of bother: Bastogne or Bastenaken (Battle of the Bulge WWII; mountains + forests), Passchendaele or Passendale (Battle of Passchendaele WWI, ridge), Braine or Braine - l'alleud near the Sonian Forest (village where the Battle of Waterloo actually was fought, ridges and forests), etc. In fact there has been a battlefield in almost every corner of Belgium so if you need more ...

The South African "mountain" Spionkop, where the Dutch butchered some British might also qualify. Literally translated = Spy Head. Place where a sniper has a clear 360 view of his surroundings so he can easily ... Also might ring a bell for the Red's Army.

 

[Dreadnought]

Motgrull Den
Dreadsreign
Serethor

 

[Shepherd]

coming along nicely, folks... I've already added some of these ideas to the map. I love Moortgat - and anything with a good back-story.

 

[Blondo]

Eivissa is problably too well known so I have come up with some other islands.

Pampus, an island fortress east of Amsterdam.

Pampus is used in an old dutch proverb which meaning is to be intoxicated, drunken, ... Sailors had to wait a few days on this island before entering the port of Amsterdam. Needless to say: whores, drugs, booze and more whores. Actually, echoing the quotidien in Amsterdam.

Rubirosa, my first choice when naming an island/peninsula.

Porfirio Rubirosa was a Dominican diplomat and an international playboy known for his legendary prowess with women, who has also been named as an inspiration for James Bond. Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_Rubirosa. Wiki fails to mention these most desirable women were attracted to him because he was generously endowed. Even to this day, the pet name for those giant pepper mills used in (french) restaurants is Rubirosa.

PS: Cfr. Florida, America's wang, Rubirosa is just too good a name to pass up for a phallic peninsula.

 

[Blondo]

Apocalypso, I think you can see what I did there.

Btw, in Apocalypse Now the river takes center stage. Actually Fishburne isn't bad in that movie too -> Fishburne might also be a good name for a river.

 

[MirkManEA]

Forest
• Driavski's grove
• Muriac’s Marsh

Mountain Range
• Worldspine

Frozen Tundra
• Icefire Wastes
• Thirstmore’s Glacier
• Glacial Fiels
• Glacier Keep

Deserts
• The Scorched Lands
• Triest’s Thirst
• Sea of Stone / Stone Sea
• Moulton Flats

Prairies
• The Opens

Seas
• Sea of Tears
• Typhion’s Deep
• Iron Sea

Rivers
• Phenius’ Aqueduct
• The Tribute

Islands
• Cragmore
• Icepoint
• Stoneship

 

[Blondo]

Is this map finished?

 

[Shepherd]

no, but it's coming along nicely. Hit a little snag, but I just got back on track.

 

[MirkManEA]

I know you don't want to get anyone upset by infringing on IP, but I'm in book four of A Song of Ice and Fire and I think a Game of Thrones map would be awesome. That being said, reading this thread I'm excited to see this map! Hope I'm better at it than Asia :-D.

 

[Shepherd]

this one's pretty much wrapped up... hope to release it soonish.