Category
Character Craft
Naming Characters for Folktales: What Makes a Name Feel Mythic
Why some invented character names feel instantly at home in a folktale and others feel out of place — the sound patterns, brevity, and function that make a name read as mythic.
Building a Folk-Name System by Language Family, Not by Guesswork
A cast of names that all sound like they belong to the same world isn't luck — it's picking one sound family and generating inside it, with a worked example casting four roles.