Pseudo-European setting, help with place-names

vgunn · May 20, 2017, 12:43:59 PM

I'm very much interested in coming up with a similar setting to 7th Sea, but want to get the place-names and languages closer to historic counterparts.

Nations:

Germany =
Holland/Low Countries =
France =
Spain =
Portugal =
England/Celtic =
Italy =
Papal State =
Merchant Republics =
Sweden =
Denmark=
Viking =
Micro States =
Greece =
Turkey =
Balkan =
Poland =
Romania =
Russian =

Please give me some names for each of these!

Dumarest · May 20, 2017, 01:37:39 PM

Why not just Google historical names for them, or use the Spanish, French, or whatever language versions? Angleterre, Allemagne, etc.

Gorilla_Zod · May 20, 2017, 02:23:38 PM

I'm fond of Dalriada and Brigandia as my Scots-Celtic and England espies when I go faux European.

vgunn · May 20, 2017, 02:38:05 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;963515Why not just Google historical names for them, or use the Spanish, French, or whatever language versions? Angleterre, Allemagne, etc.

I want something a bit less common and not used in settings before.

Krimson · May 20, 2017, 03:26:24 PM

Go to Donjon, use the Markov name generator, seed it with country names you like, then run it until you have enough.

Dumarest · May 20, 2017, 03:38:52 PM

Quote from: vgunn;963521I want something a bit less common and not used in settings before.

Given the criteria in your OP, that's highly unlikely to happen.

AsenRG · May 20, 2017, 04:39:26 PM

Quote from: vgunn;963508I'm very much interested in coming up with a similar setting to 7th Sea, but want to get the place-names and languages closer to historic counterparts.

Nations:

Germany =
Holland/Low Countries =
France =
Spain =
Portugal =
England/Celtic =
Italy =
Papal State =
Merchant Republics =
Sweden =
Denmark=
Viking =
Micro States =
Greece =
Turkey =
Balkan =
Poland =
Romania =
Russian =

Please give me some names for each of these!

Hemus is the original name of the Balkan mountain:).

And I wonder where is my own country. I mean, all our neighbours are present, but for some reason Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia aren't there;)?

jan paparazzi · May 21, 2017, 08:32:31 PM

At one point in history Holland/the lowlands were known as the Batavian republic.

Pyromancer · May 21, 2017, 08:44:10 PM

Create a name for pseudo-Germany (not historical):

1d6 Prefix
1 Ritter-
2 Eisen-
3 Kaiser-
4 Stahl-
5 Mittel-
6 Burgen-

1d6 Suffix
1 -land
2 -mark
3 -reich
4 -gau
5 -pfalz
6 -au

Spinachcat · May 22, 2017, 02:54:28 AM

Quote from: AsenRG;963540but for some reason Bulgaria, Serbia and Croatia aren't there;)?

I was researching Bulgaria a couple years ago for a dark fantasy homebrew setting. It's got everything you'd want in a locale and its got tremendous length of history. Also, its 110k sq km, about the size of Virginia, so it is easy enough for PCs to travel throughout the various locales in a couple weeks end to end on foot.

Here's a map...its a pre-built a hex crawl!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]981[/ATTACH]

And its got dark fantasy names all over the place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_name

AsenRG · May 22, 2017, 05:53:30 AM

I can only agree;). And being a native, I can add that vampires and werewolves both count as Bulgarian myths.
It's very funny to confront vampire-loving Goth players with an authentic Upir and watch the exploding heads:D!

RPGPundit · May 23, 2017, 05:01:59 AM

VGunn, have you seen Dark Albion? I used alternate locale-names for almost every part of Europe. Usually something closely related to history, mind you.