The Manic Attack

Seventh Sanctum and Name Databases

Week 25, Prompt 3

About a year ago I happened upon the website Seventh Sanctum. It's a name generator with every type of name you can imagine: witches, vampires, pirates, sci-fi, Greek names, evil names, organization names, place names, etc. It helps me when I'm stuck and don't know what to name my coven or one of my characters if I'm writing fantasy.

A couple years ago I was writing my historical fantasy story about vampires in Italy in the 1300s during the bubonic plague (the Black Death) and I wanted authentic sounding Italian names for everyone. So I found a website that claims to have data taken from the Dark Ages of names of men and women, and how prominent the names were. I'm fond of unusual names so I searched what sounded good and came up with a medieval name for every last one of my characters for that story. That story has to be my favorite as far as name choosing goes. It's not posted in my port because it needs a lot of work and it was sort of novel length but I'm thinking of shortening it to a novella. We'll see.

If you're interested in Seventh Sanctum (which I highly recommend): http://www.seventhsanctum.com/