So last night I'm trawling through Steven Schend's excellent "Sea of Fallen Stars" sourcebook and come across a small bit about names for tritons. Something about male names ending in "s" and female names ending in "n".
An hour or so later, wishing to revisit that bit of the book I realise that for the life of me I can't find it. After 20 minutes of useless page turning I gave up in disgust at myself - I can't find that reference anywhere.
Any enterprising loremaster want to point me in the right direction?
-- George Krashos
"Because only we, contrary to the barbarians, never count the enemy in battle." -- Aeschylus
I think this is the section you are referring to (the punctuation doesnt copy well out of the book but the extra full stops are probably speech marks)
quote:Triton names follow simple patterns. All cities and sites are named after a figure important to that location, and colonies/protectorates take the name of their primary founder. All triton names have any number of syllables, though the standard is two or three. All male names end in a vowel and .s,. though names from 500 years or more back varied slightly from this and only ended in .s.. All female names end with an .n.. Collective terms, whether discussing the colonies surrounding a capital or the family members of a particular parent, simply add a .th. with an interceding vowel where needed to refer to the conglomerate (Numynath can mean the possessions or children of Numyn, depending on the context).
I hate it when i cant remember where i just read something. Doing Moonshae research i found so many interesting bits on Netheril and i stupidly didnt write them down so now i will never find it.
Triton names in Sea of Fallen Stars
Posted - 17 Feb 2015 : 08:26:07
