The way to name places

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Seeing as how shades is giving advice on names i might as well do the same for the place names...


So once you know what your place looks like (even if its just in your head) yuo need a name. Names fo places can be odd.
Lord of the Rings is a good example of this.
Here are a few factors for nameing a place in your stories...

• who is in charge (many place names are influeced by who is a majoriy party in the city eg. dol guldur is an evil place and we know that because the name sounds evil)
  
• what it looks like (a nice looking town should never have an ugly name like durth ln shar etc...)
  
• its main source of income [optional] (a port or armoury will easily influence a towns back ground and name)
  
• the towns history (a town or massive desease/infection might inflluence the mood and name of your town)
  
• near by towns will often want to have similar names also an entire provence may want to be similarly named
• leaders ( if a famous leader or hero ever had a conectioon to a town it may influence a towns name eg. the town of saint barthicus)
  
• your own choice (if you like a name stick with it)
  

hope this can help you with the names of your towns in your stories...