Pathfinder Lore, help with names?

[Kuromiya]

Don't play Pathfinder pnp, know very little about the Golerion setting. Need some help coming up with a lore-friendly (or at least, lore-plausible) Barony name.

My current MC is an Undead Scion whose father was an aging necromancer and mother was canonized by the Cult of Naderi. She's human, and I assume she's got some Ulfen and Chelaxian in her. Don't really know what she was doing prior to the campaign.

Given her Ulfen ties, I was thinking something like "Elivagar" for the name of my barony (a reference to the rivers of the Prose Edda; it's a river state just south of the Riverlands, so seemed plausible) but I'm not so sure I like the look of "Elivagar" on my ledger. Am also not sure if Norse-inspired placenames would offend people in this part of Golerion.

I believe there's some local connections to the Fey; would a Welsh or Goidelic placename work?

Stuck on this part of the game. Suggestions would be appreciated.

[Sorceress]

Welsh type of names:

Eilonwy (stag reference)
Aileric
Cershire


Norse type of names:
Brynjora
Freyoski
Einarland
Alfaude - Alf is like most people know part that denotes elf like creatures.

[Kuromiya]

I guess I'm looking more for general advice on what SORTS of things would be lore-friendly for the setting, rather than specific names. But thank you for the suggestions, i will consider them.

(Eilonwy wouldn't work, IMO, as it's a proper name rather than a place name, and because I read loads of Lloyd Alexander as a kid, it would be incredibly distracting)

[Grifta]

We had our capital city in the ruins of the Staglord's fort named Loughtir, which is LakeLands in Irish. I just found out that putting those words together translates to "Fault" in Irish... a lot of things now make sense given the story-line

I remember that we just went to this page, and started mashing words together until something fit, and sounded good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_names_in_Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_toponymy

[Grifta]

No name would really offend the area because there's not many people around, and Fey seem to be offended/unconcerned by human's existing. There's Pitax to the west which is pretty Cheliax sounding, and then Varnhold to the east (literally the leader+"hold")

Some themes (with English words that spark that impression);
-Lawful - something about bringing order to the region which is currently a chaotic mess (bastion, or hold)
-Chaotic - escaping something to this free area. (<something> refuge, haven)
-A lot of fey in the area as you said, so Irish/Welsh does fit in the theme.
-Geography factors a lot in naming; there's plains to the north, forests to the west, on a lake & river, and mountains to the east. All good for naming.
-Dramatic - Have a concept that your character is passionate about then (<something>'s end, point)

[Kuromiya]

So Welsh and Irish names are canon and appropriate for Golarion, then?

In that case, I might probably settle on something like Tir Annwn (for the Naderi connection) or Llyndued / Llyncarnedog (references to the Tuskwater, which is described in the Pathfinder wiki as brown/black and very rocky)

Originally posted by Grifta:

-Dramatic - Have a concept that your character is passionate about then (<something>'s end, point)

Well, see, that's one of the problems: I'm not familiar enough with the setting to really have an idea what my MC would be passionate about (beyond the obvious stuff, like mead, and not being eaten by linnorms). She's not a cleric and doesn't follow a particular god or goddess (to the best of my knowledge), and hell if I know anything about Chelaxi or Ulfen heroes and culture.

[Jeysie]

I recommend taking a spin through the https://www.d20pfsrd.com/ Every race page gives lists of typical names for each gender of that race, which might give good ideas of what to choose.

There's also https://pathfinderwiki.com/ which gives more detailed information on the actual setting involved.

[Kuromiya]

Originally posted by Jeysie:

I recommend taking a spin through the https://www.d20pfsrd.com/ Every race page gives lists of typical names for each gender of that race, which might give good ideas of what to choose.

There's also https://pathfinderwiki.com/ which gives more detailed information on the actual setting involved.

I've been pouring over those for the better part of the day, but now my Thanksgiving vacation is almost finished, and I've got less than three minutes further into my Kingmaker campaign since this morning.

The only Pathfinder thing I've actually read through was the free goblin campaign, "We Be Goblins", which doesn't help much.

[Grifta]

This is a compiled list of how Golarion places map to real world places, times, or concepts. Scroll down until you see the massive post from Deadmanwalking:
https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qpa5?Real-world-countries-Golarian-is-based-on

This doesn't cover Stolen Lands specifically, it's basically everything that an Irish grandmother would tell their kids about the fair-folk to scare them. It always struck me as early civilization Irish.


If you want more spoiler-free context of the Stolen Lands and rest of the game, check out the Kingmaker Player's Guide. If you don't want to make a free account for this download, you can easily find it if you google Kingmaker Player's Guide PDF (can't post it here because it's technically copyright... but it's free)
https://paizo.com/products/btpy8dqh?Pathfinder-Adventure-Path-Kingmaker-Players-Guide

[Grifta]

Originally posted by KickySonichu:

(beyond the obvious stuff, like mead, and not being eaten by linnorms)

Well that's good... definitely no chance of that happening here

Could do something with that if you want to bring some Ulfen culture with you. Cairn's End/Rest (or one of the other Linnorm types)
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Linnorm

Or obviously your first thoughts since the area is very Irish/Welsh as you first thought.