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Help[Opinions] Re: Need names for a couple in my story
in reply to a message by kinree
Is it supposed to be high or low fantasy? As a reader, I can't stand it when "normal" names pop up stories where the setting/world building is supposed to be totally unrelated to the reader's reality. I find it so distracting when the characters are named things like Dytbyk, Seku, Kuavir and Ben. I'll be obsessing over the mystery of Ben instead of getting into the story.
Anyway, if it's an entirely different world, scrap Serena. Change it to Sarene or Sreana or something, just a little twist.
But I will also say that "Serena and Mordra" sounds a bit obviously hinting at a "light and dark/good and evil" theme. Maybe that works for the story though.
(Love Mordra, btw.)
Anyway, if it's an entirely different world, scrap Serena. Change it to Sarene or Sreana or something, just a little twist.
But I will also say that "Serena and Mordra" sounds a bit obviously hinting at a "light and dark/good and evil" theme. Maybe that works for the story though.
(Love Mordra, btw.)
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High fantasy. There's lots of 'weird' names in my story. And both are benevolent characters, I think. I haven't gotten to develop them much yet.