How did you find your Dragon name?

Flame Nightfall · Posted: Thu 04 Dec 2008 12:58 Post subject:

Well, before i was Dragonkin, and pretty much just a fan. I went around by the name of Dragonflame. Once i met other Dragons and eventually joined them, they always called me Flame. It's a name i keep to honor my friends, but i've grown very customed to it.

Nightfall is a different story, i once had a dream where i was with my Dragon parents, my father was partially a Black Dragon and my mother Blue one. And suddenly, in the dream, my father's last name sounded, for it was as dark as his scales...

So there's my background... Hope you enjoyed reading it.

Jasriella · Posted: Thu 04 Dec 2008 13:11 Post subject:

Why is it that everybody's dreams are so vivid while mine just seem like little blurs and every great once-in-a-while I can make out what is going on, and then I forget later in the afternoon?
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Flame Nightfall · Posted: Thu 04 Dec 2008 13:19 Post subject:

Heh, i know what you mean, don't have a lot of dreams that were so real and on topic. So it's a reason more to believe it ment something.

Normally my dreams don't make any sense and don't survive my memory till the next day either.

Hyraxylos · Posted: Fri 05 Dec 2008 8:09 Post subject:

Monarth · Posted: Mon 29 Dec 2008 0:46 Post subject:

Mine was found, when I was concentrating on my dragon-self in the time I hadn't found my dragon form yet. I was just thinking, saying words that came from my mind and tried to feel connection with them. And suddenly, the name "Monarth" came to my mouth and it was immediate connection, that snapped all. Soon after that, my dragon form started to form up to my soul. I didn't "make" the name, it just came to my mouth from somewhere.
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Jasriella · Posted: Mon 29 Dec 2008 8:57 Post subject:

SkieFireYokana · Posted: Mon 29 Dec 2008 9:47 Post subject:

I've been reading about you and your name for a while, goldendragon, and what amuses me is people saying it's the name that is borne by the Elven Queen in LotR. They're wrong. Either they're wrong or you're consistently misspelling it. Your name, as you say it, is "Galadreil" with the e before the i. The character they are thinking of is named Galadriel; it is written similarly in the English language, certainly, but it is a world away in pronunciation. It's amazing how much the simple reversal of some letters can change the way you say something.

As for holding a copyright on the name "the Dragon of Eternity" that's a failed endeavour and if you're going to sue over it you can bet someone else will sue you. Here's something you can copyright: your book. Yep, the whole book is yours. And if you invent the word flicknasquatchel, then you have a copyright over your new word. But those four words are not new, and have not even been combined in a unique way. I don't see what there is to copyright. It's an idea describing a dragon that represents eternity. Other people can use it, other people can say it, other people can use it as their name. And it's a VASTLY overused name. "Eternity" makes me shudder as a character name. If you want a name you can sue over use for, don't use a word already in existence. Nobody sues someone naming their character John Smith, though it's a terrible name choice for a book, and nobody will be able to hold a suit against someone who stole the name "Eve" or "Autumn" from a book. Chances are that the books including those names aren't all that good in the first place if they have to use an actual DESCRIPTOR as a word to tell you who the character is. The feel of a word can do that. Take my character Slythe for example. It's not a word you've seen before in common English use, is it? It's not a proper word. It's not in any dictionary that I know of. But you can get the feel of it, can't you? I wouldn't sue over someone using it, of course, but I would contact them and express my concern over their use of the name and ask if they had gotten the idea from me. If they had, I'd then politely ask that they not use it, and offer to make them a new name if they need one. It's that simple. Thinking of which, there's one other person on the internet who uses the name Shomti, and I need to go ask him how it's pronounced.
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Hyraxylos · Posted: Mon 29 Dec 2008 13:17 Post subject:

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