little bit of a warm up drawing, I’m getting into GOT and love Daenerys character and her design in the fanarts. I’m most likely going to start with the books since what I’ve seen for the show the reviews are mixed.

Or, Naming Your Avatar OC’s: Beyond Baby Name Lists

Naming an original character in any fantasy setting can be a tricky business. Do you use a real name? Do you make one up? Either way, it has to sound like it fits into the established world - but you don’t want it to sound too similar to the names of canon characters, either. In this post, I will offer an analysis of canon names of major and minor characters in Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, looking for discernible patterns in the names of each of the fictional cultures of that world, and offer some suggestions based on my own experience for how to choose or create names for original characters in that world.

Of course, there’s nothing wrong with using a “baby name list” for inspiration or even taking a real name from one of the cultures the show is based on and using it. But since the fictional cultures of the show are not complete carbon copies of real cultures, just picking a name from a list of Inuit or Japanese names won’t always give you one that actually fits in with the Avatar world. And maybe you’ve seen enough Water Tribe OC’s named Nanook (I’m guilty of this one myself) and want to get a little more creative. In that case, welcome to the advanced OC naming class.

And yes, there will be color coded spreadsheets.

Art by mourningstorms

Full panels + sources:

Birds of Prey #1 (1999), Batman #569 (1940)

Birds of Prey #18 (1999), Birds of Prey #1 (1999)

Mother of Dragons

By Kateryna Vitkovska

Based on Daemon's vision of Daenerys in House of the Dragon 2x08: