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    Help Please help me name my barbarian villages!

    I've got to go to the crowd (i.e. you guys here) for this one because I'm about 900 village names short of the 1789 or so I need. I have a culture that for now I'm referring to as "barbarians" because if someone wants to play that class in a DnD or Pathfinder game in my world that's the culture they would come from. Some are humans and some are half-orcs; there are no full-orcs; they mix and share a culture and language; they live in huts and tents made of wood and skins in forests in low land and mountains; they are closely attuned to nature and hunt for much of their food; they are warlike but not evil or hyperaggresive.

    I have almost 900 village names but the name-making part of my mind has run out of fuel, and I need as many more.

    Please suggest some names for their villages, or better yet some themes that i could use to make lists that I can mix-and-match from. The names should be in English. I have a translator to turn them into the "barbarian" language.

    T.I.A. for help.


    Edit: having read a couple other posts I decided I better add some info.

    The names can't be based on topography. That's one thing that's making it hard. The reason is because the villages are not all being placed by hand, and the names are being applied semi-randomly, and I can't guarantee that the name "Green Mountain Village" doesn't end up on a village in a valley, or "Wide Bay Camp" doesn't end up on a mountain top. Some names like that are fine since I can place a number by hand. But the map as a whole has many thousands and the vast majority are placed proceduraly. In the future I'd like to work on a better distribution program that takes into account elevation and nearness to the coast and so on, but in the meantime that's not a thing.

    They also can't be an existing place name unless that name is made into plain English. For instance, "New Town" is alright but "Newton" isn't. This is because I want these village names to be translatable back from the barbarian language into plain English.
    Last edited by Pananacakes; 05-16-2017 at 05:16 PM. Reason: more info

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