Message: "Solemn CAF with namebanks"

[Games] Solemn CAF with namebanks

by blaaarg

4/12/2009, 3:38 PM

Use these however. Add/subtract family members / change genders as you like.

Out of curiosity, what names would you put in a "solemn" namebank?

Girl: Claudia, Ylva, Margaret, Nadia, Adele, Wren, Martha, Margalit, Maureen, Mairin, Agnes, Ermengarde, Laura, Winifred, Elinor, Kathleen, Susan, Olive, Anne, Raymonde, Lenore, Leonor, Leonoor, Alma, Martine, Colombe, Angela, Vera, Helen, Helaine, Sarah, Olga, Justine, Edith, Catherine, Philomel, Miriam, Ernestine

Boy: Robert, Franz, Colm, Alban, Anton, Laurence, Edmond, William, Engel, Augustine, Leif, Cyprian, Walter, Carl, Frederick, Robin, Cornelius, Alois, Ernest, Louis, Malcolm, Edmund, Edgar, Noam, Raphael, Rafe, August, Amaury, Colin, Roland, Martin

Word: Nocturne, Glass, Evening, Requiem, Linden, Hart, Angelorum, September, Goodbye, Cormorant, Moth, Twilight, Remember, Sepulcher, Goldengrove, Song-Without-Words, Spiritus, Go-In-The-Wind, Live-Softly, Lovelonging, Reverence, Beating-Heart, Liquid-Days

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#CAF #namebank

This message was edited 4/12/2009, 3:45 PM

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- Jasmine (silly_rabbit)

4/17/2009, 7:15 PM

DH: Cornelius Glass
DW: Lenore Reverence

DD: Vera Remember Colombe
DD: Wren Evening
DS: Roland Requiem
DD: Adele Nadia Lovelonging
DS: Robin Beating-Heart
DS: September Malcolm
DD: Justine Live-Softly

- Lillian (LillianAMS)

4/16/2009, 9:38 AM

Your CAFs are the *best*

Sorry this has taken me so long. I wasn't just busy with other things, I was carefully researching.

I wasn't quite sure in which direction you intended to take solemn. Solemn as a funeral, or solemn as a coronation? I'm getting that you're trying to do something that's not Goth but more neoGoth or postGoth. Sorta. Many of your word names seem funereal (Requiem, Angelorum, Goodbye, Remember, Sepulcher, Spiritus, Go-In-The-Wind), while others seem quietly, duskily romantic (Nocturne, Evening, Hart, Twilight, Goldengrove, Lovelonging, Beating-Heart); and some are harder to classify*, but definitely evocative of peaceful, graceful beauty (Glass, Linden, September, Cormorant, Moth, Song-Without-Words, Live-Softly, Reverence, Liquid-Days). So I did what I do, and looked stuff up. Dictionary.com gives several definitions of solemn; and Thesaurus.com is a veritable treasure trove of good suggestions. Then there's always good ol Bartlett's Quotations for inspiration.

You asked what names I would include in a "solemn" namebank. Here are the ideas I've had. I'm not sayin they're all good ideas.

Adore
Æternus
August (month and/or adjective, as opposed to Augustine)
Austere
Autumn (September + the -mn ending)
Blue (especially dark blues are very solemn colors, in my estimation)
Breath-of-Life
Cerulean (from blue; but may be too light and cheerful sounding, idk)
Clement or Clemency (from my Grace and Mercy)
Cloud (for the misty dim darkness evoked by Evening, Twilight, Nocturne and September)
Cobalt (from blue, but less cheerful sounding than Cerulean I think)
Covenant (there are rather religious overtones to your list...)
Deferent (from humble/deferential, but maybe too close to "different" idk)
Dignity or elaborated out to Dignitarius/ium or Dignitaria

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