Greetings! If you can spare the time, I am interested in the naming conventions around the Moonsea. Are differance in names among nobility, and commoner? What might some given and family names be? 1)
The cities around the Moonsea have very different settlement origins, and so, a lot of different-from-each-other human names can be found among their residents, and they also have chaotic histories wherein nobility haven’t…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020
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…fared (survived) too well. In the two most recent centuries in particular, the mineral wealth and trade in smelted metals has brought a stream of outlanders into the Moonsea North, from all over Faerûn, so names from a lot… 3)
…of places have poured in. And all of the warfare (Zhentil Keep’s forces conquering or trying to, mainly, but also recruiting for the Zhentilar) have resulted in a lot of intermingling, from city to city, among laborers and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020
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…shopkeepers and traveling merchants.
Among city nobility, who’s “in” and who’s not, right now (1490s DR), I leave to individual DMs for their campaigns, but here are some upper-crust, land-owning, wealthy families from whose 5)
…ranks nobility may well be drawn (and although rulers are always suspicious of nobles whose family members are spread throughout several cities, under different rulers, that’s the rule more than the exception, in the Moonsea):#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020
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Aelcrown
Blayfeather
Corfalcon
Dunwyvern
Elhalond
Falask
Gonthan
Ironhand
Juspaer
Murnarpar
Narglade
Sabrast
Tanthmuir
Urpresper
Veldusk
Yunthaer# 7)
Popular upper-crust female given names:
Adanthe, Adanthae
Cantaere
Duandaera, Duandeira
Filfaera
Imbra
Joysarra
Mabranta, Marbrantara
Melarra
Olone
Pelarbele
Velvaele
Waencza#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020
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And popular upper-crust male given names:
Adelnar (Adeln)
Chalance
Farandar
Helchess
Imdargar
Jarth
Kelrath
Perendarl
Storn, Stornadar
Torbe, Torbruth
Undevver
Yanthar
…And the commoners will follow soon in another flurry of tweets. ;}#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 27, 2020