Place Name Generators Place Name Generators While I’m at it, here are some place name generators. Largely I use the Ever-changing Book of Names , if I can’t come up with something on my own, but this is a handy set of online resources. Nine French Boys has a lot of generators that are pretty decent. Scroll down the page for their placenames. The Random Town Name Generator is a very, very funny page full of faux science. Squid.org has a nice mix of non-English place name generators. The USA Place name generator gives you actual locations in the US, complete with map coordinates, pulled from the 1990 census. Dire Press has both character names and place names. Planet Name Generator In addition to names, this also gives you things like Length of Day and type of Gravity. Random Town Name A simple generator for making one faux British town name at a time. Suburban Name Generator Need a housing development?
Fantasy Name Generator By Samuel Stoddard - Version 1.5 One of the perks of creating fantasy stories -- whether by writing a story or game or by role-playing -- is you get to make up the names. Some people relish the task while others are frustrated by it. In addition, this tool can be fairly amusing to use even if you don't have any name creating to do. You can use the fantasy name generator below. Character Description Requirements FAVORITES Color: Music: Food: Literature: Expressions: Book: Quote: Expletive(s) (swears): Mode of transportation: HABITS Smokes: What? How often? Drinks: What? SELF-PERCEPTION One word character would use to describe self: One paragraph description of how character would describe self: What does character consider best physical characteristic? Immediate goal(s): Long range goal(s): How does character plan to accomplish goal(s)? How character react in a crisis (calm/panic/etc.)? Jewelry? Owns a computer? © (c ) copyright 1990-2011 Rebecca Sinclair ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Authors Note: I worked hard on this. ~ Permission is granted to LINK TO the Fiction Writers Character Chart. ~ Permission is granted to print out a copy of the Fiction Writers Character Chart FOR PERSONAL USE ~ Permission is NOT granted to copy and/or use the Character Chart in print and/or electronic form (including the internet) without express written permission)
Type or paste a notMyongjin Character Flaw Index To make characters realistic and relatable they are given flaws, because if there is anything a writer can be sure of it is that no one in their audience will be perfect. Flaws are character traits that have a negative impact in the narrative, unless they are simply informed. They can also be exploited. See Good Flaws, Bad Flaws for a scale of flaw acceptability. Compare Seven Deadly Sins, Ego Tropes. Abusive Parents: Habitually violent and cruel to their own children, often because that's how they themselves were raised.
Skin Tone Chart The human skin color has many different color tones. It is seen that people who belong to tropical regions have darker skin tones than those who live in middle latitudes. This is due to the exposure of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun. Darker the skin tone, more the melanin present in the skin to protect it from skin cancer. The difference in skin color is not only genetic, but also cultural. The human skin color tone can vary from a nearly colorless pigmentation to a very dark brown color. Skin Color Terminology Skin tone chart has been used to identify races since a long, long time. The metaphor 'black' was first used by the end of 17th century after Francois Bernier (1625 - 1688), a French doctor divided the human race according to facial appearance and body type. Skin Tone Color Chart Thomas B. It is found that the Type 6 skin tone has roughly twice the melanin of Type 1.
List of Latin place names in Asia This list includes Asian countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references. Background[edit] Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of genealogy. Caveats and notes[edit] Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. Early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and spellings of the Latin names. The modern canonical name is listed first. Superscripts indicate: Latinized form of the Greek-derived name.Latinized form of the Asian-derived name via Greek.Altered Latinized form of the Greek-derived name. Cities and towns in Anatolia (Turkey)[edit]
List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire , or that were given Latin place names in historical references . As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages , often based on scholarly etiology , this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era . Background [ edit ] Until the Modern Era , Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking . During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde . These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of genealogy . Caveats and notes [ edit ] Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. Early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and spellings of the Latin names.
List of cities in Sweden Legally and administratively, the term stad is not used in Sweden since the municipal reform of 1971, when the municipality (kommun) became only existing form of local government. Before the reform there were 132 urban centres that had the title of stad. The urban centres of these municipalities are still called stad in daily speech and 14 of the municipalities have chosen to continue to call themselves stad in marketing situation, although several of them now encompass large rural areas following the merger of Swedish municipalities in the 1970s and 1980s. These 14 are: Borås Municipality, Gothenburg Municipality, Haparanda Municipality, Helsingborg Municipality, Landskrona Municipality, Lidingö Municipality, Malmö Municipality, Mölndal Municipality, Solna Municipality, Stockholm Municipality, Sundbyberg Municipality, Trollhättan Municipality, Vaxholm Municipality and Västerås Municipality. The decision to call themselves stad has been taken purely for image/marketing reasons.