Once called "the Known Lands", now a mostly sunken continent.
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Legend has it that Kiron, the great Centaur hero of the tiny kingdom of Arcadia, galloped all the way around the great continent he dwelled on and said his descendants would rule all of it. The Kironian Empire nearly did, and named the continent after its legendary founder. All the land westwards from the Shoulders of Atlas, a vast, impassable mountain range inhabited by giants and dragons, were either part of the empire or at war with it before the great Age of Cataclysms began, a series of cascading earthquakes and tsunamis that sank most of this vast land over the course of a century. Only the Shoulders of Atlas to the East, the White Waste to the North, and the Last Lands to the West remain.
The first great Cataclysm sank the Kironian homeland of Arcadia, sending the Empire into chaos, leading to it breaking up into smaller kingdoms, Haugeland in the North, Thosia in the East, and Lyonesse in the West. Albiona was the only part of the continent that was never conquered by the Centaurs, a bastion of the Feys in the Northwest. Held together through waves of mass immigration by whichever king could maintain order, they barely lasted a few decades each as the geological upheavals slowly spread across the continent.
Languages of Last Lands
I am not a philologist but I want the names used in my campaign to be evocative and display the background of each character. So I have decided that each language in my campaign will be represented by a real world dialect appropriate to the culture with maybe a little tweaking for pronunciation purposes. So these are the languages spoken in my setting with their real world basis:
Racial Languages
Centaur: Kironan (Modern Greek)
Faunish: Caprian (Latin)
Minotaur: Taureas (Minoan)
Melian Elvish: (Etruscan)
Iron Dwarvish: Dverger (Norwegian)
Trollish: Peikko (Finnish)
Aarakocra: Porakaii (Maori)
Bullywug: Grenouillaise (French)
Naja-Set: Thosian (Egyptian)
Giff: Nahari (Arabic)
Gnollish: Fisiwatu (Swahili)
Genasi/Djinn: (Persian)
Liath Elvish: Llwyd (Welsh)
Sidhe: Aldean (Irish Gaelic)
Urban Languages
- Aldea
- Burghausen (German)
- Irium
- Shosnar
- Valoran (Italian)
- Ys
- Skytop Village
Melian Elvish Names
Female Names
Arnthi, Arntlei, Hastia, Fastia, Larthia, Ramtha, Ravntha, Raunthu, Seianti, Sethra, Thana, Thanchvil, Tita,Velia.
Male Names
Aranth, Arnth, Aule, Caile, Cuinte, Larce, Laris, Lars, Lausa, Larth, Mamarce, Marce, Sethre, Spurie, Spurinna, Tages, Tarquin, Thefarie, Thocero, Tite, Vel, Velthur.
Surnames
Lausa, Matuna, Porsenna, Pulenas, Spedo, Tarquin, Thelesa, Tlesnasa, Velianas, Vipinas
Kironan Names
Female Names
Alala, , Alkina, Bellanka, Daria, Electra, Elissa, Gelasia, Halia, Iolanthe, Jokasta, Kalonike, Layna, Megara, Melanctha, Naia, Ophira, Phaedra, Sophia, Tekla, Voleta, Xanthe, Yolie, Zinaida
Male Names
Adrastos, Belen, Dymas, Eryx, Hector, Kiron, Lykaios, Minos, Obelix, Pancras, Stavros, Talos, Thanos, Vasilios, Xenos, Zarek, Zorba
Surnames
Andreadis, Baros, Doukas, Galanis, Hallas, Karahalios, Lagana, Mihal, Nanos, Patera, Rokos, Stathis, Trakas, Varela, Xenakis, Zervas
Bullywug Names
Female Names
Adélaïde, Batilde, Camille, Dione, Elaine, Faustine, Gwenaelle, Helewise, Igerne, Jessamond, Laure, Mahaut, Morgause, Olympe, Perrine, Rosemonde, Sophie, Viviane, Yolande, Zephyrine
Male Names
Alphonse, Bernard, Clement, Didier, Esclados, Eustache, Frederic, Guillem, Honore, Ives, Jori, Leon, Marcel, Marrok, Nihel, Odilon, Peppin, Philip, Quentin, Renart, Sylvestre, Thierri, Urbain, Valentin, Yvain
Surnames
Augustin, Beaumont, Cousineau, Dubois, Eustis, Fontaine, Giroux, Herriot, Joubert, Lefevre, Lestrange, Lyon, Mercier, Moreau, Olivier, Poirier, Renaud, Sauvageon, Tremblay, Vipond
Faunish Names
Male Names
Amicus, Aries, Boulos, Cassius, Domitius, Emerentius, Felicianus, Gucio, Horatius, Ilario, Janus, Laurentius, Marcianus, Nero, Ovid, Publius, Quentin, Rufus, Scipio, Sylvanus, Titus, Ulixes, Valerius, Vitus
Female Names
Adriana, Aquilina, Bellona, Cornelia, Diana, Emerentia, Fauna, Floria, Gioconda, Honoria, Isauria, Jocosa, Latonia, Lucasta, Marciana, Nelia, Oriana, Pomona, Quintina, Rufina, Stella, Sylvana, Titania, Una, Valeria, Vesta
Surnames
Arquetius, Bucco, Crassus, Demetrias, Ebernus, Flaccus, Glaucia, Helenus, Juncus, Laeca,
Marcellinus, Numida, Ovicula, Pictor, Russus, Silanus, Torquatus, Uritinus, Vestalis
Valoran Names
Male Names
Alfeo, Biaggio, Calogero, Doriano, Ettore, Filippo, Gastone, Ilario, Livio, Melchiorre, Naldo, Pancrazio,
Quirino, Remo, Scevolo, Thorello, Ulisse, Vitale,
Female Names
Arianna, Brigida, Caprice, Donata, Elettra, Fulvia, Grazia, Ilaria, Lucrezia, Malvolia, Pina, Rosaria, Saveria, Tiziana, Vanda, Zita
Surnames
Abelli, Bosco, Cuoco, D'Ambrosio, Drago, Ermacora, Fausti, Guerra, Idoni, Lupo, Martelli, Merlo, Nacar, Orlando, Pagano, Quaranta, Riva,
Serpico, Tafani, Ucello, Vestri, Zappa
Male Names
Aranare, Arudara, Asijaka, Bansabira, Didikase, Duripi, Itaja, Jadikira, Kikeru, Kitanetos, Kubaba, Mijararos, Nashuja, Pamesijos, Pijaseme, Pijasiros, Pinaruti, Pitaja, Pura,
Rusa, Sama, Sijapuros, Tarina, Titiku, Widina, Yidini, Yikashata, Yishharu.
Female Names
Amaja, Ariadnh, Atana, Diktynna, Kitane, Pipituna, Qerasia, Razija