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Orc names that sound right, and how to build your own
The sounds that make a name feel orcish, how clan names and earned titles work, how to make orc names that are not all interchangeable grunts, and how half-orc and drow naming differ.
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Old Norse names, patronymics and bynames for fiction and games
How Viking Age names were actually built, from two-part given names to -son and -dóttir patronymics and bynames like Eirik the Red, so your Norse characters sound right.
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