Help:Naming Your Creations

Can't come up with a good name for your mobs, items, dimensions, ect.? Then here are some good ideas, tools, and tips for giving your things names that really stand out.

Tools
Mobs and items are biggies - especially those that have prefixes in their names. In case you don't know what a prefix is, it is a word that goes before something's name, though it is usually connected to the word. For example, the prefix pyro- means fire, and if there is a creature called a pyroraptor, it is a dinosaur of fire attributes and such.

Coming up with prefixes and suffixes (verbs or adjectives that go after the word rather than before it, such as -saurus) can be tricky. There are many good sites for this. Google Translate is one of the best for this, such as coming up with a prefix in another language, like Greek or Latin. Latin prefixes are used a lot and are very useful for giving a dazzle to your names.

To manually search through a page of Latin and Greek words used in naming organisms, there is a list on Wikipediajust for that. Or, if you are coming up with an entirely new name, the Fantasy Name Generator is also a good source for coming up with randomized names where you select a 'category' of what type you want the name to be - long, short, goofy, and even Hawaiian.

TBC