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my-fair-ladybug:

Something that’s almost never covered in fantasy mediums is common names.

Like we all know fantasy names are unusual, but any name to a foreign culture is considered unusual English names to Indian people are very unusual for example. But naturally, given that it’s an entire culture, there will be some common names, it’d be refreshing to at one point here this exchange.

“So I was talking to Vicnae and-”

“Wait which Vicnae? You can’t just say Vicnae. There are ten Vicnae’s in my village alone.”

This has 100 notes yesterday and 300 this morning what the fuck happened.

People understand the truly important things.

DSA (a German fantasy P&P RPG) actually has the name Alrik, which is hugely popular in the universe. Everyone is Alrik.

This is also a great excuse to use “X the Y” or “X of Y” type names without being pretentious. Calling someone “Thognor The Stout” goes from pomposity to practicality if he lives down the road from Thognor The Small.

Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock.

~~*~surnames~*~~

my family is from a town in Ireland where everyone has the last name Ryan.  literally like everyone.  so they differentiated families by calling them by their professions, right?

anyway we’re the Horse Thief Ryans

This will even happen within families- 

On my mom’s side, every boy was named “Robert” and imediately shortened to “Bobby” for six generations, to the pint where angrily yealling “ROBERT!” at thanksgiving would make easily 20 men jump in terror.  We started distinguishing them by phsycial attribute- Tall Bobby, Short Bobby, Bald Bobby, Shooting Accident Bobby and my favorite uncle “Rock n Roll Bobby”)

On my Dad’s side, I’m related to pretty much everyone in the Cear Rapids area with the Surname “Gray”.  However, the Grays are Gotdam Humoungous family (7 children, 32 grandchildren, 86 great grandchildren and oh god I’m not sure how many great-great grandchildren they keep happening and some of them are old enough to marry now…)  so to distinguish my degree of relation (mostly becuase none of us can remember what the difference between numbering and removing your cousins is) they’re distunguished by which piece of the empire they control- Corn Grays, Real Estate Grays, Dry Cleaning Grays, Junkyard Grays, The Other Corn Grays, Waste Management Grays, Funeral Home Grays and The Other Other Corn Grays.