Kyrroti Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 Nananav was a character in Oathbringer who was robbed by Veil and her crew. Veil's crew posed as carpet workers, which allowed them to infiltrate the keep. The name Nananav reminds me of Nalthian naming schemes, with the repetition of consonants, such as Vivenna or Llarimar. I would assume she would be at third heightening or higher, which would allow perfect color recognition, as one line of dialogue from her is requiring the new carpet to be a perfect match of color. Am I reading too much into this? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantus he/him Posted September 20, 2018 Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 (edited) 14 hours ago, Kyrroti said: Nananav was a character in Oathbringer who was robbed by Veil and her crew. Veil's crew posed as carpet workers, which allowed them to infiltrate the keep. The name Nananav reminds me of Nalthian naming schemes, with the repetition of consonants, such as Vivenna or Llarimar. I would assume she would be at third heightening or higher, which would allow perfect color recognition, as one line of dialogue from her is requiring the new carpet to be a perfect match of color. Am I reading too much into this? Pretty sure there's no such thing as reading too much into things, not around here. That's one looks to be more about the rosharan symmetry naming conventions, were palindromes are considered holy. They take their syllables (that whole runic system) and make them one letter/sound off from a palindrome (like Shallan) so as to not be too presumptive or something. In world its probably traced to the palindromes common in the Heralds. Quote staircasewit I suppose my question is about how you name your characters. I've been reading WoT and notice some similarities, for example Cenn, and Sarene, and Shalon (different spelling, but they probably sound the same). Is it purely by accident that you have characters with similar names, or is it a homage to a recent master of the fantasy genre? Or is it just that with RJ's 2000+ names, it's impossible to escape some overlap? So I guess I'm curious about how you name your characters in general (and even places. Urithiru is an awesome name.) Brandon Sanderson [snipped for the relevant bit] Some of the names in the book were constructed quite intentionally to fit linguistic paradigms of the setting. Urithiru, for example, is a palindrome--which are holy in the Alethi and Veden tongues. Some names, like Shallan, are intentionally one letter off of a holy word--as to not sound too arrogant. (Shallash would be the holy word; nobility will often change one letter to create a child's name to evoke the holy term, but not be blasphemous.) With many, I just go for the right feel. I've worked these names over for years and years at this point. Dalinar's name has been set in place for a good ten years or so, but Kaladin used to be named Merin and Szeth used to be named Jek. (The first changed because I didn't like it; the second changed because the linguistics of the Shin people changed and I needed a name that better fit.) source Quote Questioner [PENDING REVIEW] I was wondering if you were ever gonna talk about how some of the names are, like, palindromes and what it means? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] So, in the Stormlight world, symmetry is holy. And so, palindromic names are how the names of a lot of religious figures, and things are. And even a lot of people, who-- particularly those who are based off of them. It's a religious concept. The keteks, the poems in the back, are symmetrical poems. source Edited September 20, 2018 by Quantus 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyrroti Posted September 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2018 There's definitely some Vorin near-symmetry present; I should have noticed that earlier. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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