Rewriting.

[bladespark]

I'm revisiting Blood and Fire, and contemplating making a real novel out of the mish-mash of stories at last. JJ has given me some interesting ideas, and I think I have an outline roughed out that will let me use pretty much all the good text from the current series of short stories, while tossing out the awful bits, and adding only a couple of chapters worth of text to get a single mostly coherent narrative. But before I dive into it, I need to do one thing, and that is rename the planet.

Mysteria is a ridiculous name for a planet. Particularly when said planet is a living, sentient being. Would you like being saddled with a moniker like Mysteria? It's also a rip-off from the Mystara D&D setting that was almost certainly the original inspiration for the role playing sessions that were the original inspiration behind my writing. I'd really rather not keep any second hand D&D references in this thing, it's going to be stereotypical role play fantasy enough as it is, really.

But I'm totally drawing a blank here on the name. Any suggestions? Serious preferred over silly, I have to use this in religious writings, epic bits of story, and everyday bits as well. Though silly suggestions will be obligingly laughed at. Just not actually used.

Comments

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

Frogmaster 11.

use it. its made of WIN and GOLD.

[beetlecat.livejournal.com]

http://media.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7811

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/gens/planetname.html

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Useful! Thanks.

[mavikfelna.livejournal.com]

I actually Mysteria.

But, if you must get away, how about Yiantara.

Other posibilites:
Green Mother (assuming it tends to have a female perspective)
Nintar
Iyon
Teh Evil (ok, so that's from 5th Element sorta. ;) )

--Mav

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Etheria?

[moltare.livejournal.com]

Sarlana
Ristol
Lotrinde

...really, it depends on the dominant indigenes. Are they !Germanic, !Romance, !Asian, !Amerind...?

[thalass.livejournal.com]

Mol's got a point. I asked this same question of Reiver the other day. Or maybe it was Rusty. I get those guys confused.

Though iirc the people of Mysteria were of No Particular Origin. None that I could determine, at least.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

No, they're not really, which is why I had no answer to this. I suppose inasmuch as they're anything, they've got a dash of Celtic in there. But just a dash, really. Part of the original (ha!) origin story of the place was that it was a planet of refugees and escapees, people who had, for one reason or another, chosen to leave their home worlds to come there. So no one cultural identity at all. (Though that's been chucked out the window in the re-write. There are still such refugees on the place, but they're no longer the majority.)

[silveradept]

Then perhaps something !Roma, modeling the original wanderers, if you haven't already found a working idea?

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Nary a notion here. I don't think anything too Romanian would work though, because my Bad Guy From Elsewhere is very much Romanian, and ought to be out of place in this setting, thus the setting cannot be Romanian or Slavic at all.

[harliquinnraver.livejournal.com]

call it planet Nintendoo 64. yes, i spelled that correctly. Nintendoo.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

You're silly. *giggles*

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

Please, just don't name it Bob.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

As if I'd do something like that to a serious story!

[tarathene.livejournal.com]

It was a silly non-suggestion? ;)