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DanaDark

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I always have a hard time coming up with a name for my species. I was wondering where others get their ideas for species names and perhaps hear some examples from others!
 

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You dont have to come up with new names and if you have you can still use a random generator.

But even many of the sci-fy authors use reference names of our human culture. For example names from the greek/roman or egyptian mythology are always welcomed and do contain a large pool of cool and fancy names same goes for celtic, nordic etc etc