Fantasy Worldbuilding Substack article #50. I wasn't sure how many articles there would be when I started this Substack. Awesome to take a moment and reflect on the fun of creating the past 50 articles -- and more to come. Thanks for joining me on this journey.
Like a fool, I've gone and made a bunch of conlangs for various cultures and must resist the siren's call of naming everything in a conlang - useless for a reader - and instead focus on making an evocative name in a language a real person speaks.
All good. In fantasy storytelling, there's probably an unspoken expectation for some amount of conlang name conventions. I use a mix of conlang, direct description, and evocative/experiential naming formats.
Fantasy Worldbuilding Substack article #50. I wasn't sure how many articles there would be when I started this Substack. Awesome to take a moment and reflect on the fun of creating the past 50 articles -- and more to come. Thanks for joining me on this journey.
Like a fool, I've gone and made a bunch of conlangs for various cultures and must resist the siren's call of naming everything in a conlang - useless for a reader - and instead focus on making an evocative name in a language a real person speaks.
All good. In fantasy storytelling, there's probably an unspoken expectation for some amount of conlang name conventions. I use a mix of conlang, direct description, and evocative/experiential naming formats.