Q:

Hello Zedeck! I like your adventure Lorn Song of the Batchelor and want to slot it into my SEA fantasy setting. One small hangup is, I don’t have a name for the wider area. So you have a name for this? If not do you have some tips for creating a good name?

Thanks,

Anonymous

Names of places come difficult for me, too!

I wrote Lorn Song as being suitable for slotting into any “peripheral” territory—ie: any region outside a metropole / imperial core.

When I write places like this I tend to think in my mind that they are part of an upland, or the uplands. I like this generic name; it feels real, true to the area’s relationships.

Locals would call their homes by affectionate, descriptive names, things close to them. It is mainly cartographers and conquerors (and often there is no difference between these two kinds of people) that need proper names, to distinguish their many demesnes …

The Gleaming Fins’ river valley could be an upland of an existing territory of the setting you play in? “Upper ____”? Or a name of a territory that reminds you and your players of a real-life territory your own country once / still colonises.

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