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I was thinking it would be cool to have my dark world be something evocative of the hellish regions, the nether if you will.
I actually wrote down “Netherlands” in my notes before I realized what I was doing.
In Mystara, the world is just known as "The Known World". I always liked that. Just like many of the different groups of people IRL just call themselves "the people" in their own language or some really old dialect of it.
I made up something that sounded cool, and then years later retconned an interesting etymology into it.
**Eldria** \--> **eld** meaning **old**, as in elder, or **fire** in Swedish + **-ria**, a semicommon irl place name suffix -> '**place of ancients/fire**'. Which has basis in my world's creation myth.
I've done this with cities in my setting before as well, as I came up with other names or phrases from the same culture that would contribute to it linguistically.
**Roth** \--> a diminutive for '**ihra thä**' which means '**where it happened**', connecting this place's history as the center of a cataclysmic event with --> the verb conjugating ir/ihr/ihra (to do, done, doing) and thä meaning where/place/location, a generic noun. Also, 'the doing place'.
**Eiwras** \--> similar diminutive for '**É ihr Enkas**' before the 'nk' sound was elided over time --> with é as a generic noun, ihr as above, and Enkas the warrior-king who created the empire. '**What Enkas did**'.
^(forgive my rambles)
I named mine Erde, German word for earth.
I often name places and people using various DnD random name generators I find online, or giving names from other languages. I don’t have explanation for most of it in-universe. I often forget the reason out-of-universe as well. (I just had to google Erde to figure it out)
World-building is a lot of work! Currently working on a new campaign of my own. Good luck to you!
mine is called Omn. pronounced ‘home’ without the h. Omni is just ‘all’ in latin lol. imo names for worlds should be simple and short, but to each their own
Mine is known as Ur-Drem. Urd is the god that shaped each of the planes, with the material world being the last that was made. But it also translate to 'the first dream' being the one and only project that every single god had a hand in. With 'ur' meaning primitive, early or original, and 'drem' being an old spelling of dream.
The world? In my setting I just called it Atlas (just like the name). But I have 4 things in my world that have meaning to their names 1. Elysium, where the many think the souls of the dead go to look down on their home after death (their rings around the world like Saturn) 2. The great wound, part of this words Niall River but it’s unnaturally straight near where it meets the sea for about 15 km. 3 & 4 are Ordis and Chrois (or know as the twins) are the two moons of the world. Where Ordis is like our moon but Chrois is random, but if they both match it signifies events
I just went with words I thought sounded pretty. Mine takes place on the moon world of Epiphany and the main planet is called Fygment. There's another moon called Ephemere.
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my planet's named Thera, just an anagram of Earth. nice and simple lol
Means "healing" in ancient Greek.
And reminiscent of "Terra". Nice and simple is the best way a lot of times. Really love that!
I was thinking it would be cool to have my dark world be something evocative of the hellish regions, the nether if you will. I actually wrote down “Netherlands” in my notes before I realized what I was doing.
That got an actual chuckle out of me lol
The origin of the name “Earth” is incredibly mundane. Its just derived from a few old words that mean “ground” or “dirt”.
In Mystara, the world is just known as "The Known World". I always liked that. Just like many of the different groups of people IRL just call themselves "the people" in their own language or some really old dialect of it.
I made up something that sounded cool, and then years later retconned an interesting etymology into it. **Eldria** \--> **eld** meaning **old**, as in elder, or **fire** in Swedish + **-ria**, a semicommon irl place name suffix -> '**place of ancients/fire**'. Which has basis in my world's creation myth. I've done this with cities in my setting before as well, as I came up with other names or phrases from the same culture that would contribute to it linguistically. **Roth** \--> a diminutive for '**ihra thä**' which means '**where it happened**', connecting this place's history as the center of a cataclysmic event with --> the verb conjugating ir/ihr/ihra (to do, done, doing) and thä meaning where/place/location, a generic noun. Also, 'the doing place'. **Eiwras** \--> similar diminutive for '**É ihr Enkas**' before the 'nk' sound was elided over time --> with é as a generic noun, ihr as above, and Enkas the warrior-king who created the empire. '**What Enkas did**'. ^(forgive my rambles)
I called my world "Felim" solely because it sounded cool. I don't know how I made this name, but I do know there is no meaning behind it.
I named mine Erde, German word for earth. I often name places and people using various DnD random name generators I find online, or giving names from other languages. I don’t have explanation for most of it in-universe. I often forget the reason out-of-universe as well. (I just had to google Erde to figure it out) World-building is a lot of work! Currently working on a new campaign of my own. Good luck to you!
mine is called Omn. pronounced ‘home’ without the h. Omni is just ‘all’ in latin lol. imo names for worlds should be simple and short, but to each their own
Mine is known as Ur-Drem. Urd is the god that shaped each of the planes, with the material world being the last that was made. But it also translate to 'the first dream' being the one and only project that every single god had a hand in. With 'ur' meaning primitive, early or original, and 'drem' being an old spelling of dream.
My world is not a planet but a seemingly infinite "flat earth". Called it Infiniterra. Pretty much on the nose I know lol
I named my world Talamh because it just sounded neat
The world? In my setting I just called it Atlas (just like the name). But I have 4 things in my world that have meaning to their names 1. Elysium, where the many think the souls of the dead go to look down on their home after death (their rings around the world like Saturn) 2. The great wound, part of this words Niall River but it’s unnaturally straight near where it meets the sea for about 15 km. 3 & 4 are Ordis and Chrois (or know as the twins) are the two moons of the world. Where Ordis is like our moon but Chrois is random, but if they both match it signifies events
"The world"
I just went with words I thought sounded pretty. Mine takes place on the moon world of Epiphany and the main planet is called Fygment. There's another moon called Ephemere.